CASE Conf 2025

Tessie Bailey
Director, PROGRESS Center
PROGRESS Center at American Institutes for Research


Tessie Rose Bailey, Ph.D., is the Director of the PROGRESS Center: Promoting Progress for Students with Disabilities and advisor for the Center on Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS Center) at AIR, Lead IDEA Center, and National Center on Intensive Interventions (NCII). She also supports states and districts in implementing special education requirements and tiered systems through the National Center for Systemic Improvement (NCSI) and state contracts. She has conducted hundreds of workshops and presentations for local and state educators on effective and efficient implementation of MTSS and special education. She has developed many widely used technical assistance resources, including the Multi-Tiered System of Supports Within Schools: The What and The How, Strategies for Setting High-Quality Academic Individualized Education Program Goals, assessment and intervention professional learning material, online self-paced learning modules, and training materials for local technical assistance providers.

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