High-Leverage Practices
Developed by the Council for Exceptional Children and the CEEDAR Center, high-leverage practices are 22 essential special education techniques that all teachers of students with disabilities should master for use across a variety of classroom contexts. Six of these practices are referred to as pillar practices—those most essential for educators to implement; and the remaining sixteen are embedded practices—those required to effectively support pillar practices. As noted in the graphic below, both pillar and embedded practices are categorized under four domains: Collaboration, Data-Driven Planning, Instruction in Behavior and Academics, and Intensify and Intervene as Needed.
![hpl pillars](/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/hpl_pillars.jpg)
View an enlarged version of this organizational structure and learn more about these practices in the guidance document High-Leverages Practices for Students with Disabilities.
This interactive alignment tool, developed in collaboration with CEEDAR and the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), identifies which IRIS resources provide information on HLPs.