About
The people behind PULSE for Education
Special education measures compliance in exhaustive detail. It almost never measures whether the people delivering services can do the work in the hours they are contracted to work.
PULSE for Education measures that: each provider's mandated IEP services, direct and indirect, set against the working hours in their contract.
A director can then show a board what the department needs.
The Special Education Observatory publishes the public figures behind that conversation, state by state and district by district.
PULSE for Education and the Observatory are made by The Inclusive Practice, LLC.
Eric Oxford, Ed.D.
Co-founder
Eric began as a special education teacher in a therapeutic day program, then led a therapeutic day school.
He served as a Director of Student Services, about ten years as a director of special education across districts north of Boston.
His doctoral research in 2020 studied how school administrators experienced inclusion.
He is the author of The Measurement Gap and From Caseload to Workload.
Rebecca Cann, M.A., CCC-SLP
Co-founder
Rebecca is a licensed, ASHA-certified speech-language pathologist. Her work spans therapeutic placements, public schools and general education, preschool through transition.
She leads the AAC Capacity Toolkit and the learning resources districts reach through PULSE.