Project PIPELINE seeks to transform the statewide ecosystem for recruiting, training, and retaining special education teachers by establishing a grow your own pipeline to mitigate the critical shortage in North Dakota. PIPELINE would streamline teacher training beginning in high school. Teacher candidates could begin working as paraeducators, then becoming special education technicians, and finally growing into licensed special education teachers.

Through coordinated partnerships, PIPELINE will identify a transparent, fluid pathway for teacher candidates by eliminating barriers related to credit transfer and redundancy in coursework. PIPELINE is funded through the Bush Foundation.