The primary role of the Council of Educators is to provide quality training events on disability law issues.

Each year, we hold a fall conference on Section 504 with a special education strand, a Dyslexia Conference addressing the Texas Dyslexia law, and beginning in 2008, a Spring Autism Conference. All of our conferences are held in Austin, Texas. These are informative and fun events, with fabulous general sessions, interesting breakout sessions, lots of time for questions and answers, and a great opportunity to network with other educators.

Here’s the calendar (click one for more details):

If you have never attended a CESD Conference, you’ve missed a lot.

Speakers are chosen from attorneys and practitioners who know their stuff (and can entertain as well as inform). Each speaker is required to prepare written materials that are included in a notebook that each participant takes home. So, even if you don’t see all of the sessions, you have all of the materials. Folks tell us that they utilize the notebook throughout the year to help answer their questions.

At each of our conferences, there is always time to network with other educators who share your concerns, and many opportunities to ask questions of the speakers. We even have some nice door prizes for a few lucky participants.

Too many people to bring to Austin? We can put together a training to meet your needs, and bring it to you!

We also conduct numerous in-services for regional service centers and school districts during the course of the year, tailored to the needs of each audience. Sometimes it’s easier to bring our presenters to your national, regional, state or campus event. We’re happy to do that too. We’ll focus the presentation on what you need and do it at a time and place that works for you. Click here to see what we can do for you!