What do special education practitioners want to learn and how do they want to learn it? These questions drove a recent Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Professional Development Needs Assessment Survey that revealed important insights that are already helping CEC tailor its programs to mirror the needs of practitioners across the field of special education. In early 2018, CEC contracted a third party consultant (the Townsend Group and its research partner, Ruzinsky Research) to conduct a study of current trends, preferences, and priorities related to professional learning within the field of special education. The goal was to better understand the needs of professionals serving children with exceptionalities and to guide future development of CEC's professional development offerings. This survey revealed clear preferences in professional learning from a demographic of experienced special education teachers and administrators. Data from this survey will be used by CEC in conjunction with other data, such as historical registration and attendance rates for courses by topic area, emerging trends in special education, and association industry trends and best practice in the design and delivery of professional development offerings, in their planning of future professional learning content.