This set of high-quality, colorful brochures, a web address card and poster can be used in a variety of settings to recruit persons to the field of special education teaching. If you are interested in receiving these products in a Quark file that is camera ready to take to your printer, please contact us and we will be happy to customize the contact information on it and send it to you.

The Special Educator Recruitment Brochure gives examples of specific attributes of special educators and promotes the rewards of this specialized career. Download the PDF (3.9 MB)

The Special Educator Recruitment Brief describes the profession in greater detail, including answers to questions such as, What is Special Education? What do Special Educators do? Who are Special Education students? How do I prepare to become a Special Educator? Download the PDF (5.3 MB)

"One Child At a Time” is an outstanding recruitment video/DVD focusing on recruiting persons from underrepresented populations to professions in special education and the related services.
View a short clip of the video here.

Discussion Guidelines (PDF) for use when presenting the video/DVD to groups of young people are available for reproduction.
Download the PDF (820 KB)

Here are five professionally produced Public Service Announcements that your state, region or local school district may be interested in reproducing to air on local television stations to recruit persons to the field of special education and the related services.

• The Mid-Career Changers
• The Rural Special Educators
• The Urban Special Eductors
• The Heroes
• The Heroes (Spanish version)

Recruiting to Special Education Careers
A Personnel Development Training Manual
by Vincent B. Watkins, JD
This manual will assist you in formulating a strategic campaign plan for
community-based recruitment and guide your implementation and evaluation of that plan toward a successful conclusion. 70 pages.
Download the PDF (5.4 MB)

Poster: Advertise your Become1 campaign with this full color poster. Download 8.5x11 format. Also available for commercial printing in full poster size (18x24) upon request. Download the PDF (3.5 MB)

Push Card: Preview the "Success" push card... Our 4x6 size, full color, 2-sided push card. Preview shows both sides of the card on one 8.5x11 sheet. Commercial printing files available upon request. Download the PDF (584 KB)

Contact the Personnel Center and find out how you can obtain these materials to use in your recruitment initiatives.