Education and Training


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We provide education and training to help people use evidence-based practices in their everyday work. We work with schools, disability and community organizations, service providers, people with disabilities, and families. Our training and resources are shaped by research, practice, and lived experience and are designed to help improve outcomes for people with and without disabilities.


Professional Learning Opportunities

SDLC logoKUCD's Self-Determination Learning Center (SDLC) is a national technical assistance and professional learning center dedicated to expanding access to evidence-based practices that support self-determination. The SDLC provides training, coaching, tools, resources, and ongoing implementation support to help educators, service providers, organizations, and other partners effectively implement and sustain self-determination practices. Through accessible professional learning, technical assistance, and partnerships, the SDLC works to bridge the gap between research and practice and ensure that people with disabilities have opportunities to build and use self-determination skills across school, work, and community settings.

Now Offering Self-Paced Online Trainings

Trainings Available Now!

Goal Time: Self-Determined Learning for Middle and High Schools logo
This course is designed to train teachers and other school personnel to implement the Goal Time practice in middle and high school classrooms. Goal Time is an evidence-based practice that supports students to build self-determination skills by setting goals, taking action toward those goals, and evaluating their progress. Increased self-determination is strongly linked to positive school and post-school outcomes.
Responsitory logo
This course is designed to train educators, disability service providers, researchers, and others to use the Responsitory data collection and management system. The Responsitory supports the administration, collection, and tracking of self-determination measures, measures you enter into the system, and more. It can also support data-based decision making.

Trainings Coming Soon!

Goal-Setting Challenge (GSC) App logo

Goal-Setting Challenge (GSC) App

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Goal Time: Self-Determined Learning for Elementary Schools card

Goal Time: Self-Determined Learning for Elementary Schools

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Goal Time: Self-Determined Learning for Careers card

Goal Time: Self-Determined Learning for Careers

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Goal Time: Self-Determined Learning for Professional Development card

Goal Time: Self-Determined Learning for Professional Development

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Dr. Ashley Taconet giving a poster presentation about self-determination interventions

Contact Us!

Contact us for in-person training on Goal Time, CIRCLES, and other evidence-based interventions.

Email us at kucd@ku.edu


Education and Training Team

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  • Lauren Bruno, Ph.D., a woman with a blue shirt, blue headband, and goldenrod overcoat

    Lauren Bruno, Ph.D.

    Associate Director of Education and Training

  • Landra Fair

    Landra Fair

    Education Program Manager

  • Baylee Kilburn

    Baylee Kilburn

    Research Project Coordinator

  • Ben Edwards

    Ben Edwards

    Research Project Specialist

  • Lindsay Rentschler, Ph.D., a woman with curly hair

    Lindsay Rentschler, Ph.D.

    Associate Director of Communications and Dissemination

  • Taylor Givens

    Taylor Givens

    Research Project Specialist

  • Ashley Taconet, Ph.D.

    Ashley Taconet, Ph.D.

    Associate Director of Project Evaluation and Management