Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit #21

Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit #21 CLIU21 offers a variety of educational services to our 14 public school districts, in Carbon and Lehigh counties, including charter and private schools!

Follow us on all our social media pages to see how we're always Helping Children Learn! The CLIU serves as the coordinating agency that brings together diverse school districts, vocational schools, businesses, higher education and community groups. The CLIU uses a "regional team" approach and through cooperation and collaboration among school districts and community agencies, provides innovative,

responsive, and cost-effective programs. It is the job of the Intermediate Unit to facilitate inter-district cooperation, provide educational and administrative services to schools, and function as a link between the Pennsylvania Department of Education and local school districts. CLIU provides a broad range of services to fourteen public school districts, non-public schools and two Career and Technical Institutes of the Carbon and Lehigh counties. Our services include: Curriculum and Instruction, Staff Development, Educational Technologies, Special Education Services, Non-Public School and Behavioral Health Services. Additionally, the CLIU also offers technology solutions through our Management Information Systems department as well as Business, Human Resources and Management services in community and educational settings. For job listings, visit www.cliu.org or our page, CLIU #21 Jobs. Also be sure to browse our sister page on Facebook, Carbon Lehigh Special Needs Children's Foundation.

Nowadays, everyone loves doing their Black Friday shopping online. If you want to support helping special needs children...
11/28/2025

Nowadays, everyone loves doing their Black Friday shopping online. If you want to support helping special needs children learn while also getting a chance at some amazing gifts, you can purchase tickets online for our Holiday Basket Raffle!

Just visit www.CLSNCF.org/raffle2.php to see all the baskets available to win! Sales end on December 10th. Happy shopping today!

11/27/2025

Today is about much more than the meal. It's about the people you share it with, all the other people in your life who have lead you to this point, or maybe the things you have that bring you happiness.

In our Life Skills classroom at the LB Morris School in Jim Thorpe, our students reflect on what they are thankful for! And they wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!

Let's give a warm Thanksgiving welcome to our newest group of CLIU21 employees! A smaller starting class, but it gave us...
11/25/2025

Let's give a warm Thanksgiving welcome to our newest group of CLIU21 employees! A smaller starting class, but it gave us a better chance to get to know one another! We have two instructional assistants, a speech therapist, a teacher, and someone working with our IT department!

Welcome to the team!

Another lovely Thanksgiving gathering at one of our schools last week! We had quite the spread at our Allentown Learning...
11/24/2025

Another lovely Thanksgiving gathering at one of our schools last week! We had quite the spread at our Allentown Learning Achievement School in Center Valley. Students also took part in serving food for others. The food was so amazing and so flavorful! Dr. Flood is not shy with the cayenne pepper!

This ALASgiving was a great way to celebrate our students, staff, and new building.

For the last day of American Education Week, we are celebrating our substitutes! When our educators are sick or absent d...
11/21/2025

For the last day of American Education Week, we are celebrating our substitutes! When our educators are sick or absent due to something unforeseen, these people fill in to keep the classroom rolling! John Edelman is one of our longest tenured substitutes serving us for over 23 years!

John loves working with students of all ages and programs. After reflecting on a long career with us, he says, “I enjoy working with the kids and seeing them make progress. I like to get back to classrooms to see the kids I’ve worked with before, see staff I haven’t seen in awhile. It’s nice to see I’ve worked with toward the beginning of my career, and sometimes I get a chance to see them later on when they’re almost done with school.”

Thank you to all of our substitute educators!

On day four of American Education Week, today’s theme is Educator for a Day! Although our teachers, paraprofessionals, a...
11/20/2025

On day four of American Education Week, today’s theme is Educator for a Day! Although our teachers, paraprofessionals, and itinerant staff are showing up every single day to Help our Children Learn, there’s a whole lot these children teach us, too!

When you spend time with special needs children, you realize how smart they really are. Your worldview on special education and these kids will change. They can have just as much emotional and educational awareness as anyone else. They just need a little extra help. So take some time and let a child with special needs educate you for a day!

11/19/2025

We're in the middle of American Education Week, and today we're highlighting our brand new schools in Center Valley! One location, two schools. Our Allentown Learning Achievement School and our Lehigh County Enhanced Autism School are housed in the same building. It's a major upgrade from where we were before, and our students&staff can feel the difference.

In this video, we talk about what it took to bring this project together, how the school year is going so far, and what plans we have for the future!

The second day of American Education Week is Family Day, and what better way to celebrate than having a Thanksgiving mea...
11/18/2025

The second day of American Education Week is Family Day, and what better way to celebrate than having a Thanksgiving meal at school! Sharing food and memories with people we spend a lot of time with!

The staff at the L.B. Morris School in Jim Thorpe put out quite the spread, bringing multiple classrooms together!

All week CLU21 is celebrating American Education Week, and we sure had a Kickoff Day to remember! We want to thank J.B. ...
11/17/2025

All week CLU21 is celebrating American Education Week, and we sure had a Kickoff Day to remember! We want to thank J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. for selecting all of our IU21 special education classrooms in Weisenberg Elementary for their Adopt-A-Class program!

They gave students free t-shirts and hats to wear, but the best part was letting our students sit in the cab of a semi-truck! They even got to honk the air horn! These are smiles and memories we will not forget. Thank you to the JB Hunt team for an incredible time!

Even though our elected officials were out in Harrisburg finalizing the end of the government shutdown on Pennsylvania's...
11/14/2025

Even though our elected officials were out in Harrisburg finalizing the end of the government shutdown on Pennsylvania's end, their staffers were kind enough to join us for a tour of our new Allentown Learning Achievement School and Lehigh County Enhanced Autism School!

It's important for us to show our state senators and representatives how we are Helping Children Learn, and what that looks like in the classroom! Thank you to the offices of Senator Jarrett Coleman, Senator Nick Miller, PA State Rep. Doyle Heffley, and PA State Rep. Milou Mackenzie!

Thanksgiving came early for our kiddos at Panther Valley High School! Last week our special needs classrooms came togeth...
11/12/2025

Thanksgiving came early for our kiddos at Panther Valley High School! Last week our special needs classrooms came together for a Thanksgiving luncheon, so of course turkey had to be on the menu!

In the spirit of the season, CLIU21 is incredibly thankful to our special educators who work so hard to make moments like this possible for our children.

We want to thank the Carbon County Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees - PASR for Helping children Learn in our ...
11/07/2025

We want to thank the Carbon County Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees - PASR for Helping children Learn in our classrooms! They awarded a grant to our Panther Valley High School MDSB classroom lead by teacher Annmarie Tarapchak.

We will be getting a kitchen appliance to help teach our students independent living skills! Thank you our local PASR!

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