NJIP Professional Learning Academies 2026–2027
Join us for a year-long series of webinars designed to support inclusive education across New Jersey schools. Each academy includes 5 high-impact sessions focused on practical strategies, collaboration, and mindset shifts that lead to sustainable change.
All academies are free to join, and will be delivered via Zoom Webinar.
There are 5 sessions in each Academy. Attendance is not required at each session in an Academy- attendees may join as many or as few as they’d like. The webinars will not be recorded.
Select Your Series:
Better Together: Collaborative Practices for Inclusive Classrooms
Primary Audience: Educators & Admin
This is a five-session professional learning series designed for educators and administrators seeking to build stronger, more effective collaborative practices in inclusive classrooms. Participants will explore the foundations of co-teaching, specially designed instruction (SDI) within general education settings, strategic use of co-teaching models, and collaborative consultation and problem-solving across educational teams. The series moves beyond simply placing multiple adults in a classroom to examining how their expertise can be intentionally coordinated to increase access, participation, and meaningful learning for students with disabilities. Participants will leave with practical strategies, tools, and structures for strengthening collaborative instruction and sustaining effective inclusive practices over time.
Select which date you wish to register for from the list below. Participants are encouraged to attend all sessions as each session will build upon content presented in previous sessions.
To register for more than one session, you must register individually. You are not required to attend each session in a series.
Each webinar from the “Better Together: Collaborative Practices for Inclusive Classrooms” series will run from 12-2:30 PM.
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Date: September 17, 2026
Time: 12-2:30 PM
Focus: Establishing a shared understanding of collaborative teaching, adult roles, and inclusive mindsets.
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Date: October 22, 2026
Time: 12-2:30 PM
Focus: Understanding SDI and how it is delivered in general education settings.
Register for Specially Designed Instruction Within Inclusive Classrooms
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Date: January 14, 2027
Time: 12-2:30 PM
Focus: Applying co-teaching approaches strategically and intentionally (connecting to SDI).
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Date: March 11, 2027
Time: 12-2:30 PM
Learn strategies to build trust and authentic collaboration with families, especially when navigating complex needs and engaging families in the IEP process in a meaningful way.
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Date: May 13, 2027
Time: 12-2:30 PM
Focus: Creating structures that support long-term collaborative success; Inclusion facilitation.
AI notetakers will be removed from meetings.
Operationalizing IDEA & NJAC Chapter 14
Primary Audience: Admin & CST
The Operationalizing IDEA & NJAC Chapter 14 Academy is a five-session professional learning series designed for administrators and Child Study Team members seeking to strengthen the systems and practices that support both compliance and inclusive education. Moving from regulatory requirements to practical implementation, participants will explore IDEA and NJAC Chapter 14, LRE and IEP decision-making, high-quality IEP development and progress monitoring, transition planning, UDL and differentiation, and natural proportions scheduling. Throughout the series, participants will connect legal requirements to everyday systems, structures, and instructional practices, leaving with practical tools and strategies to build school and district capacity to effectively support students with disabilities.
Select which date you wish to register for from the list below. Participants are encouraged to attend all sessions as each session will build upon content presented in previous sessions.
To register for more than one session, you must register individually. You are not required to attend each session in a series.
Each webinar from the “Operationalizing IDEA & NJAC Chapter 14” series will run from 8:30-11 AM.
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Date: September 15, 2026
Time: 8:30-11 AM
Focus: Enhancing compliance with IDEA and NJAC Chapter 14 regulations and other relevant case law.
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Date: October 20, 2026
Time: 8:30-11 AM
Focus: Identifying best practices in LRE decision-making
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Date: January 12, 2027
Time: 8:30-11 AM
Focus: Creating well-written IEPs, supporting student progress toward goal achievement, and supporting transition for post-secondary success
Register for IEP Writing & Progress Monitoring and Transitions
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Date: March 9, 2027
Time: 8:30-11 AM
Focus: Establishing Gen Ed frameworks to put in place for Gen Ed capacity building
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Date: May 11, 2027
Time: 8:30-11 AM
Focus: Creating structures that support long-term collaborative success; Inclusion facilitation
AI notetakers will be removed from meetings.
Inclusive Instructional Practices: HLPS & HITS
Primary Audience: Educators & Admin
The Inclusive Instructional Practices: HLPs & HITs Academy is a five-session professional learning series designed for educators and administrators seeking to strengthen high-impact, evidence-based instructional practices in inclusive classrooms. Participants will build a shared foundation for effective instruction and progressively explore collaboration and co-teaching, explicit instruction and cognitive clarity, assessment and feedback, data-driven decision-making, and intensive intervention and tiered supports. Throughout the series, participants will connect High-Leverage Practices (HLPs) and High-Impact Teaching Strategies (HITs) to practical classroom application, developing strategies and tools that promote access, engagement, and meaningful learning for a wide range of learners.
Select which date you wish to register for from the list below. Participants are encouraged to attend all sessions as each session will build upon content presented in previous sessions.
To register for more than one session, you must register individually. You are not required to attend each session in a series.
Each webinar from “Inclusive Instructional Practices: HLPS & HITS” will run from 12-2:30 PM.
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Date: September 15, 2026
Time: 12-2:30 PM
Focus: Building a shared foundation for effective instruction by strengthening collaboration and assessment practices that anchor all other HLPs.
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Date: October 20, 2026
Time: 12-2:30 PM
Focus: Strengthening collaborative instructional practices that improve student outcomes in shared teaching environments.
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Date: January 12, 2027
Time: 12-2:30 PM
Focus: Deepening instructional precision through explicit teaching, scaffolding, cognitive strategies, and active engagement.
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Date: March 9, 2027
Time: 12-2:30 PM
Focus: Using assessment data to adjust instruction in real time and build responsive learning cycles.
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Date: May 11, 2027
Time: 12-2:30 PM
Focus: Applying all prior HLPs to design intensive, individualized supports for students with the most complex needs.
AI notetakers will be removed from meetings.
Social Emotional Behavioral (SEB) Supports
Primary Audience: Educators & Admin
The Social Emotional Behavioral (SEB) Supports Academy is a five-session professional learning series designed for educators and administrators seeking practical, proactive approaches to supporting students’ social, emotional, and behavioral needs. Beginning with the PBIS framework and a multi-tiered approach to support, participants will explore universal classroom strategies, ways to reframe behavior as communication, and the role of executive function and self-regulation skills in student behavior. The series will also address effective responses to challenging behavior, strategies for avoiding power struggles, and strengths-based approaches for students who need additional layers of support. Throughout the academy, participants will develop practical tools and strategies for creating supportive learning environments that promote student regulation, engagement, and success.
Select which date you wish to register for from the list below. Participants are encouraged to attend all sessions as each session will build upon content presented in previous sessions.
To register for more than one session, you must register individually. You are not required to attend each session in a series.
Each webinar from the “Social Emotional Behavioral (SEB) Supports” series will run from 8:30-11 AM.
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Date: September 17, 2026
Time: 8:30-11 AM
Focus: Examining a multi-tiered continuum to support the social, emotional, and behavioral competence of all students.
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Date: October 22, 2026
Time: 8:30-11 AM
Focus: Exploring “universal”/ tier one behavior supports and strategies for supporting students’ social-emotional wellness that can be applied in any classroom.
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Date: January 14, 2027
Time: 8:30-11 AM
Focus: Reframing behavior as communication and executive function/ self-regulation skill gaps in order to identify effective interventions to support students socially, emotionally and behaviorally.
Register for Reframing Behavior and Teaching Replacement Skills
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Date: March 11, 2027
Time: 8:30-11 AM
Focus: Tips for dodging power struggles when responding to behavior and avoiding confrontations with students while still maintaining classroom management.
Register for Responding to Behavior and Avoiding Power Struggles
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Date: May 13, 2027
Time: 8:30-11 AM
Focus: Using proactive, strengths-based strategies to support students who need more than class-wide plans.
Register for What to Try Now: Strategies for Students Who Need Additional Layers of Support
AI notetakers will be removed from meetings.
Collaborate. Learn. Lead for Inclusion.
Join your academy and be part of New Jersey’s movement toward equity and inclusion in every classroom!
