Main Library
This library contains CADRE resources as well as State, Lead Agency and Parent Center resources. Please note that CADRE makes no endorsement of the State, Lead Agency and Parent Center resources included here, nor of any policies, procedures, processes, or documents specific to any item.
AZ - Resolution Session Training PowerPoint
BIE - Resolution Session and Due Process Hearing Procedures in Special Education - Due Process Hearing Officer Manual (2007)
Download BIE-9 DPHO manual.pdf (1013.16 KB)
CT - Principles of Mediation Brochure (Part C)
- Download CT-5 Part C Mediation Brochure.pdf (94.97 KB)
DC - Ombudsman Quarter 1 and 2 Report School Year 2017-18
This document was published in July 2002. More information on IDEA 2004.
Esta publicación ha sido desarrollada por el Consorcio para la Resolución Apropiada de Disputas en la Educación Especial (CADRE) para responder a las preguntas que tantos padres, profesores, administradores y otras muchas personas tienen acerca de la mediación.
FL - Hearing Officer Training Module (1)
FL - Hearing Officer Training Module (2)
FL - Hearing Officer Training Module (3)
HI - 2009-10 SEAC Due Process Report
IA - AEA Resolution Facilitator Guide 2010
IA - Mediator's Guide to Special Education Preappeal Conferences June 2010
IA - Recommendation Notes for Improvement
IA - Resolution Facilitator Training PPT
IA - Special Education Mediator Standards
There are a number of reasons for making mediation more accessible and responsive to families from culturally, economically and linguistically diverse backgrounds. This document is intended to provide educators with guidance that may help them understand why some families may not participate in mediation, and strategies for increasing the participation of families from diverse backgrounds. Most importantly, Keys to Access offers practical recommendations that school personnel, early intervention service providers, mediation providers, and families can use to develop the knowledge, positive...
This article suggests that the adoption of a maximizing mediation approach by the mediator is permissible and advised. There are no barriers to mediators moving beyond the world of barely sufficient processes and barely sufficient results to stimulate maximized processes and maximized results.