Project SAFE PASSAGE
(Secondary Accommodations for Educators: Partnership of Arts and Sciences, Special, and General Education)

Project SAFE PASSAGE is designed to improve the education of secondary exceptional education students by providing coursework leading to highly-qualified secondary special education teachers.

Participants will earn a Master of the Science of Education (MS) degree in Exceptional Student Education with a track in one of four content subject areas (English, math, science, or social studies). This is an accelerated Master’s program with intensive summer institutes and a majority of the coursework taking place in the summer. The first cohort will start Spring 2005. Below are the major grant objectives:

• To prepare 60 special educators who are highly qualified to teach a specific content area at the secondary level,
• To provide a collaborative model across the College of Education, the College of Arts and Sciences, and Miami-Dade County Public Schools to combine the knowledge bases of special education and general education
• To ensure successful completion of the course of study, certification, and retention of graduates as content area special educators.
• To evaluate the program and the project itself
• To disseminate findings and information about our new programs/coursework nation-wide.