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State Systems Improvement Webinar- October 23rd from 2:00-3:30 EST |
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The Regional Resource Center Program will host a webinar on State Systems Improvement on October 23rd from 2:00-3:30 EST. The webinar will focus on a framework that is designed to provide states with a detailed process for examining their systems and practices (e.g. funding, data and TA service delivery) that will guide their improvement efforts relative to the APR indicators.
Following an overview of the three major components and their related
subcomponents, select states will share their current and/or planned
practices that reflect the following framework components: Collection
and Analysis of Data, Clarification of Needs for Improvement, Strategic
Design of Improvement Activities, Implementation, Tracking and
Documenting Status and Progress of Improvement Activities and Evaluation
of Effectiveness of Improvement Activities.
Follow-up questions by participants will be encouraged as time permits.
To register for the webinar, please click here
To access the agenda and materials for the webinar click here
The link to the webinar and handouts will be sent to you after
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 23 October 2008 )
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2008 OSEP Leadership Conference Materials |
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 2008 OSEP Leadership Conference 7:15 am - Early Bird Sessions - Alternate Assessment Using Modified Academic Achievement Standards (AA-MAS) Description: This session will provide an overview of the requirements that must be met when developing an AA-MAS, issues that emerged during AA-MAS peer review, and one State’s process for addressing the requirements as they develop an AA-MAS. Resources related to AA-MAS requirements will be shared. Presenters: Sharon Hall, Education Program Specialist, Student Achievement and School Accountability (SASA) Programs, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE), David Egnor, Education Program Specialist, OSEP and Trinell Bowman, Program Manager, Division of Accountability and Assessment, Maryland State Department of Education
Facilitator: Matthew Schneer, OSEP 7:15 am - Early Bird Sessions - State Response to the National Instructional Materials Standard (NIMAS): An Opportunity Description: IDEA requires that States implement practices to ensure timely delivery of accessible instructional materials to students with print disabilities. This session will offer attendees an opportunity to learn about the experiences of a diverse range of States as they develop and refine their systems for delivering accessible instructional materials to students with print disabilities. Presenters will share innovative strategies, opportunities, and challenges from the States they represent.
Presenters: Arthur Albert, Executive Director, Special Education Program, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM); Betsy Burgess, Director of Outreach, Bookshare.org; June DeLeon, Associate Director, Guam CEDDERS; and Chuck Hitchcock, Director, NIMAS Technical Assistance Center.
Facilitator: Carmen Sanchez, OSEP 7:15 am - Early Bird Sessions - Audit Resolutions and Fiscal Leadership
Description: This session will focus on the frequent audit findings identified by OSEP and how States can work with OSEP to resolve these audit findings and put strategies in place to prevent their reoccurrence. An overview of the fiscal desk audit will be presented and a discussion of how the fiscal desk audit will be used as part of OSEP’s Verification Visits to States this year.
Presenters: Ronald Petracca, Attorney, Office of General Counsel and Lucille Sleger, Education Program Specialist, OSEP.
Facilitator: Deborah Morrow, OSEP 7:15 am - Early Bird Sessions - Meeting the Provisions of Highly Qualified Teachers (HQT) at the Secondary Level: Strategies and Success
Description: Through a session, that integrates policy and practice, attendees will learn about strategies that States use to address the provisions of HQT at the secondary level.
Presenters: Elizabeth (Libby) Witt, Education Program Specialist, OESE; Bonnie Jones, Education Program Specialist, OSEP; Kim Hartsell, State Director of Special Education Supports, Georgia Department of Education; and Lou Staffilino, Associate Superintendent, Ohio Department of Education
Facilitator: Michael Slade, OSEP 7:15 am - Early Bird Sessions - The National Evaluation of IDEA 2004: What’s in the Works? Description: The Department of Education’s Institutes of Education Sciences (IES) has initiated several evaluation studies as part of the congressionally-mandated National Assessment of IDEA 2004. These studies include: (1) the analysis of extant data on patterns of identification and academic and developmental outcomes for children with disabilities; (2) studies of the effectiveness of programs supported under IDEA 2004, including school improvement plans focused on students with disabilities and Response to Intervention (RTI) strategies for beginning readers; and (3) descriptive studies of state and district IDEA implementation. The IDEA National Assessment Implementation Study (NAIS) will be based on information provided by Part B, Part B 619, and Part C leaders in each state and a sample of district special education directors. State and district surveys for the NAIS will be distributed in the fall of 2008. This presentation will share information on the above studies including the questions each project seeks to answer, study timelines, and information specifically about the NAIS and the surveys state and district officials may see this fall. There will be time for discussion and for the presenters to respond to any questions.
Presenters: Jonathan E. Jacobson, Senior Research Scientist, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Institute of Education Sciences (IES); Lauren Angelo, Associate Research Scientist, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, IES; and Fran E. O’Reilly, Principal Associate, Social and Economic Policy, Abt Associates, Inc.
Facilitator: Rex Shipp, OSEP 9:00am - First General Session - Staying the Course-Making a Difference
Description: Since 2000, North Carolina has championed a focused, strategically planned statewide literacy initiative to address research-based reading instruction for students with disabilities. During the last eight years, the percent of growth for students with disabilities reading at or above grade level has more than doubled the percent of growth for nondisabled students. Join us for the exciting story of this journey. Participants will view data related to student academic growth, personnel development, fidelity of implementation, and sustainability. Successes, challenges, and lessons learned will be shared through stories, visuals, and even music-a truly multisensory experience!
Presenters: Mary N. Watson, Director, Exceptional Children Division, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction; and Laura H. Snyder, Section Chief, Exceptional Children Division, NC Department of Public Instruction 10:15 am - Breakout I - Reading Foundations: Research to Practice
Description: This session will provide the research foundation used to develop a 30-hour reading course required of all State Personnel Development Grant participants. Attendees will understand how this research-based training was developed, how it is implemented across NC and how we are building capacity through a Training of Trainers model. Data showing the extensive impact of this professional development on both special and general educators will be presented.
Presenters: Lynn E. Bailey, Literacy Consultant, Exceptional Children Division, NC Department of Public Instruction; and Connie P. Steigerwald, Literacy Consultant, Exceptional Children Division, NC Department of Public Instruction
Facilitator: Jennifer Simpson, OSEP 10:15 am - Breakout II - Getting Started-Implementation Strategies Description: This session will provide key start-up and maintenance strategies that ensure successful implementation of research-based reading instruction. Ideas ranging from leadership training to orientation for grantees to reading program training will be shared. Participants will understand the components of a strategic 5-year literacy plan that is required of all State Personnel Development Grantees, and its importance in building capacity for quality literacy instruction.
Presenters: Angie Cloninger, Literacy Consultant, Exceptional Children Division, NC Department of Public Instruction; and Elizabeth H. Gibbs, Literacy Consultant, Exceptional Children Division, NC Department of Public Instruction
Facilitator: Marsha Goldberg, OSEP 10:15 am - Breakout III - Sustainability-Keeping It Going
Description: This session will provide examples of strategies used to sustain quality reading instruction for students with disabilities across NC. Various activities and celebrations necessary to sustain the energy that this initiative deserves will be emphasized. Participants will appreciate the critical importance of direct connections with parents and with universities. The use of data notebooks and annual Developmental Reviews as accountability measures will be shared.
Presenters: Saysha M. Carter, Literacy Consultant, Exceptional Children Division, NC Department of Public Instruction; and Vickie C. Norris, Literacy Consultant, Exceptional Children Division, NC Department of Public Instruction
Facilitator: Jennifer Doolittle, OSEP 10:15 am - Breakout IV - Striving Readers: Improving Adolescent Literacy in an Urban School District – The Memphis Story
Description: No one can deny the importance of literacy in secondary content classrooms. As William Brozo and Michelle Simpson maintain in their text, Content Literacy for Today’s Adolescents (2007), “we believe content learning and content literacy learning are one and the same.” But deep questions remain as to the methods to improve content literacy, especially in secondary schools. Research provides some answers as to the strategies that can improve students’ achievement, but little has been substantiated that tells us how to enhance the instructional practices of content area teachers so they will use those strategies with their students in the context of their content methodologies. In 2005, OESE awarded Memphis City Schools, in partnership with the University of Memphis, a $16.1 million grant to study ways of improving the achievement of middle school students, especially “struggling readers,” called the Striving Readers Grant. The goals of the project are to improve the quality of literacy instruction across the curriculum; enhance the literacy skills of struggling readers; and help build a strong, scientific, research base around specific strategies that improve the literacy skills for minority adolescents. This addresses a targeted intervention for students most behind in reading and a school-wide intervention in the core subject areas. This session will relate how Memphis addressed these issues.
Presenters: Richard Potts, Director of Secondary Literacy, Memphis City Schools, Project Director, Striving Readers Grant; and Helen Perkins, Assistant Professor, University of Memphis Co-Principal Investigator, Striving Readers Grant, Editor, theReading Teacher
Facilitator: Carmen Sanchez, OSEP
1:00 pm - Second General Session - Improving Schools Using Coordinated Early Intervening Services (CEIS) Description: IDEA 2004 allows school districts to use up to 15 percent of the amount they receive under Part B of the IDEA to develop and implement coordinated early intervening services (CEIS). In addition, IDEA 2004 requires a district to reserve the maximum amount of funds available for comprehensive CEIS if the State determines there is significant disproportionality in the school district. CEIS is a new way of thinking for many schools and this session will discuss how CEIS can be used as a part of broader school improvement initiatives including those required by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. General education and special education leaders from the Federal and State level will discuss the implementation of CEIS as a school improvement initiative and the coordination that is required between general education and special education leaders at all levels to ensure results for children and schools.
Presenters: Patricia J. Guard, Deputy Director, OSEP; Susan Wilhelm, Group Leader, Policy Coordination Team, SASA, OESE; Roberta Wohle, Director, New Jersey Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs; and Mary Jane Kurabinski, Director, Office of Language Arts Literacy, New Jersey Department of Education. 2:30 pm - Breakout I - Significant Disproportionality and CEIS
Description: This session will discuss the requirements of States to determine significant disproportionality based on race and ethnicity and to require the use of IDEA funds for CEIS when a determination of significant disproportionality is made. The presentation will include a discussion of OSEP guidance on significant disproportionality provided in the July 2008 OSEP memorandum.
Presenter: Perry Williams, Education Program Specialist, OSEP
Facilitator: Debra Jennings, OSEP 2:30 pm - Breakout II - Using CEIS and Other Federal Funds for School Improvement Initiatives Including RTI
Description: Representatives of OESE, OSEP and the Office of English Language Acquisition will present guidance from the department on considerations for using Title I, CEIS, and Title III funds for RTI and other school improvement initiatives. In addition, this session will include a presentation on technical assistance provided by the Texas Education Agency to its local education agencies on the use of funds for school improvement initiatives and determining which funds are best to use for an initiative. Presenters: Ruth Ryder, Director, MSIP Division, OSEP; and Susan Wilhelm, Group Leader, Policy Coordination Team, SASA, OESE; Millie Bentley-Memon, Senior Education Program Specialist, Office of English Language Acquisition; and Kathy Clayton, Director, Special Programs, Texas Education Agency Facilitator: Dan Schreier, OSEP 2:30 pm - Breakout III - Considerations and Guidelines for Using CEIS Funds
Description: The purpose of this session is to further discuss the guidance provided by OSEP in the July 2008 memorandum on CEIS. During this session, the requirements for CEIS will be explored as well as barriers to CEIS implementation and solutions to help States overcome those barriers.
Presenters: Sara Doutre, Education Program Specialist, OSEP and Peg Brown-Clark, State Special Education Director, Wyoming Department of Education
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Last Updated ( Friday, 12 September 2008 )
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Statewide Systems of Support (SSOS) Webinar 3- Enhancing State's Staff and Budget |
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Registration for the third Webinar on Statewide Systems of Support (SSOS) is now open.
Based on feedback from participants in the first and second SSOS Webinar, the third Webinar, scheduled for 3:00 pm Eastern on December 17th, will provide in-depth information and discussion of State Resources for SSOS and Enhancing State's Staff and Budget. This Webinar will feature presentations by Kerstin LeFloch, from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and Tom Kerins and Carole Perlman from the Center on Innovation and Improvement (CII). Objectives for the webinar are to:
1. Hear about recent national studies conducted by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) that examined SSOS policies.2. Learn first-hand from the Center on Innovation and Improvement (CII) staff with experience at the State and local levels about the practice implications of research. 3. Share strategies and stories with colleagues from across the OSEP and OESE technical assistance and dissemination (TA&D) networks. The following AIR Research Briefs may be helpful in preparing for the webinar
State Systems of Support Under NCLB: Design Components and Quality Considerations
Help Wanted: State Capacity for School Improvement
If you were unable to participate in the previous SSOS Webinars, it can be accessed at this link. Please contact the TACC for the appropriate username and password to access this resource.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 18 November 2008 )
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NAC Conference Materials 2008 |
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National Accountability Conference 2008 Materials Monday, August 25, 2008 8:30am - Opening Session - Improving Results and Compliance through the SPP/APR Session Description: In this plenary session, OSEP will address the focus of the conference (balancing results and compliance), discuss the FFY 2006 APR review and determination process, and provide an introduction to the newly‐released frequently‐asked questions document in preparation for the break‐out sessions to follow.
Presenter: Ruth Ryder, Director, Division of Monitoring & State Improvement Planning, OSEP 10:15am - Break-out Solution Session - Early Childhood Transition (B12, C8) Session Description: Vermont will discuss its innovative joint monitoring, technical assistance and implementation plan efforts that resulted in substantial improvement in both Parts C and B. North Carolina‘s Part C grant award included Special Conditions relating to the timely transition conference requirements. The presenters will share strategies and experiences from the perspective of local early intervention programs as well as the state lead agency.
Presenters: Kate Rogers, 619 Coordinator, Vermont Department of Education; David Phillips, Business Analyst, Vermont Department of Education; Helen Keith, Family, Infant & Toddler Program Director, Vermont Department for Children and Families; Sherry Franklin, Part C Coordinator, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
Facilitators: Jim Henson (MSRRC), Pamela Kraynak (NERRC), and Sharon Ringwalt (NECTAC/MSRRC) 10:15am - Break-out Solution Session - Secondary Transition Goals Strategies to Improve Secondary Transition Planning (B13) Session Description: North Dakota and Kansas will share challenges and improvement strategies; participants will generate additional improvement strategies, ideas for TA support, and critical unanswered questions. Presenters: Gerry Teevens, Special Education Regional Coordinator/Secondary Transition Coordinator, North Dakota Department of Public Instruction; Wendy Blaauw, Education Program Consultant, Kansas State Department of Education Facilitators: Carol Massanari (MPRRC) and Jeanna Mullins (MSRRC) 10:15am - Break-out Solution Session - Disproportionate Representation (B9 and 10)
Session Description: This session will review various strategies used by the Kansas Department of Education to address disproportionate representation. Presenters: Colleen Riley, Director of Special Education Services, Kansas State Department of Education; Linda Geiger, Education Program Consultant, Kansas State Department of Education Facilitators: Kathy Chapman (MSRRC) and Cesar D’Agord (WRRC) 10:15am - Break-out Solution Session - Issues, Challenges, and Strategies for Providing Timely EC Services (C1 and C7)
Session Description: This session will examine the challenges experienced by the Nevada Part C program in meeting timelines and several strategies that have proven effective in meeting those challenges.
Presenter: Wendy Whipple, Administrator, Bureau of Early Intervention Services, Nevada Department of Human Resources
Facilitators: Lynne Kahn (NECTAC) and Grace Kelly (SERRC) 2:00pm - Debrief on Solution Sessions Session Description: Solutions shared and discovered in the morning sessions will be discussed in the large group. Facilitator: Alan Coulter, Co‐Director, Data Accountability Center (DAC) 3:45pm - General Supervision Break-outs - Part B General Supervision: Identification and Timely Correction of Noncompliance (B15) Session Description: In this session, OSEP will discuss the newly‐released responses to frequently‐asked questions regarding identification and correction of noncompliance, and provide participants with an opportunity to raise questions regarding these issues. OSEP will address participants' questions in its plenary presentation Tuesday morning, in future conference calls, and/or in written information.
Presenters: Gregg Corr, Associate Division Director, OSEP and Judy Gregorian, Associate Division Director, OSEP 3:45pm - General Supervision Break-outs - Part C General Supervision: Identification and Timely Correction of Noncompliance (C9)
Session Description: In this session, OSEP will discuss the newly‐released responses to frequently‐asked questions regarding identification and correction of noncompliance and provide participants with an opportunity to raise questions regarding these issues. OSEP will address participants' questions in its plenary presentation Tuesday morning, in future conference calls, and/or in written information. Presenters: Alma McPherson, Associate Division Director, OSEP and Larry Ringer, Associate Division Director, OSEP
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 7:30am - Early Bird Session - IT Kit Thinking Through Improvement: Tools & Strategies to Guide Improvement Efforts Session Description: Thinking Through Improvement is an improvement planning process developed by the North Central Regional Resource Center. Emphasis is placed on using data to guide the improvement planning process. The materials provide information and activities on prioritizing areas for improvement, setting targets, selecting improvement activities, evaluating process and impact, and reporting progress. Presenters: Jennifer S. Huisken‐LaPointe, State Technical Assistance Specialist and Maureen E. Hawes, RRC Program Co‐Coordinator, NCRRC 8:30am - Early Bird Session - Improving Results: SPP/APRs at Work!
Session Description: In this plenary session, OSEP will address the SPP/APR focus on improving results for infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities. In addition, questions from Monday's presentations on general supervision will be addressed. Presenter: Ruth Ryder, Director, MSIP, OSEP 10:30am - Break-out Solution Sessions - Postsecondary Outcomes (B14)
Session Description: Postsecondary Outcomes: collecting, analyzing, reporting and using post‐school outcome data to guide program improvement: NPSO, Washington and New Mexico will share challenges and improvement strategies and participants will actively learn from one another. Presenters: Jennifer Story, Program Review Coordinator and Valerie Arnold, Program Supervisor, Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction; Cinda Johnson, Principal Investigator, Center for Change in Transition Services, Seattle University; Denise Koscielniak, Special Education Director, New Mexico Public Education Department Facilitators: Jane Falls (NPSO) and Jeanna Mullins (MSRRC) 10:30am - Break-out Solution Sessions - Settings (B5 and B6)
Session Description: Presenters from Oklahoma and Wisconsin will describe their experiences in development and implementation of new strategies that increased the appropriate educational placements of preschool and school‐age children with disabilities.
Presenters: Misty Kimbrough, Assistant State Superintendent, Oklahoma State Department of Education; Malissa Cook, Associate State Director, Oklahoma State Department of Education; Mary Peters, Consultant, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Facilitators: Ethel Bright (MSRRC) and Kristen Reedy (NERRC) 10:30am - Break-out Solution Sessions - Settings (C2) Session Description: Wisconsin and Nebraska will share some challenges they have faced and strategies that they have tried in improving their C2 performance.
Presenter: Carol Noddings Eichinger, Birth to 3 Program Supervisor, Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services and Barbara Schliesser, Part C Manager, Nebraska Department of Education
Facilitators: Grace Kelly (SERRC) and Lynda Pletcher (NECTAC) 10:30am - Break-out Solution Sessions - Strategies for Improving Parent Involvement (B8)
Session Description: Come join the discussion about states' challenges and successful strategies for improving parent involvement. Hear about Ohio's successful efforts to involve parents in the data collection process for B8, as well as the latest about the "Improving Relationships & Results: Building Family School Partnerships" modules developed by NCSEAM, which are designed to help states improve parent involvement.
Presenters: Lizette M. Flammer‐Rivera, Technical Assistance Consultant, National Center for Special Education Accountability Monitoring (NCSEAM) and Thomas Lather, Associate Director, Office for Exceptional Children, Ohio Department of Education
Facilitators: Christina Kasprzak (NECTAC) and Anne Lucas (NECTAC/WRRC) 10:30am - Break-out Solution Sessions - Part C Personnel Recruitment and Retention: Current Challenges and Emerging Strategies
Session Description: Like Part B, Part C programs face personnel shortage issues. Lead Agencies report the impact of personnel shortages on the provision of timely early intervention services (Indicator C1) and meeting the timeline requirement for evaluations and initial IFSP development (Indicator C7). Strategies are emerging to address these significant challenges. Texas will share their efforts related to personnel recruitment. States will have the opportunity to discuss contextual issues and share their improvement strategies.
Presenter: Kim Wedel, Assistant Commissioner, Early Childhood Intervention Services, Early Childhood Intervention Program, Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services
Facilitators: Jim Leinen (WRRC) and Kathy Whaley (NECTAC) 2:00pm - Invited State Break-outs - Improving Outcomes through State Monitoring Session Description: IDEA 2004 says, in part, that the emphasis of State monitoring activities “shall be on improving educational results and functional outcomes for all children with disabilities.” Speakers will describe their agency’s approach to monitoring for results. Presenters: Susan Sheppick, Director, Birth to 3 Connections South Dakota Department of Education; Mary Watson, State Director, North Carolina Department of Education; Ira Wolfe, Section Chief, North Carolina Department of Education; Bobbie Grammer, Monitoring Consultant, North Carolina Department of Education; Ann Larsen, State Director, South Dakota Department of Education; Angie Boddicker, Monitoring Coordinator, South Dakota Department of Education.
Host: Jane Nell Luster (DAC) 2:00pm - Invited State Break-outs - Moving to an Integrated System of Improvement for the SPP/APR: State and Local Performance Indicators
Session Description: Representatives from Michigan Part B and Indiana Part C discuss their experiences integrating quality improvement performance across federal, state and local systems, utilizing the Thinking Through Improvement training developed by the NCRRC. This training provides a logical framework to guide improvement activities from data collection/analysis through reporting strategies.
Presenters: Teresita Long, Coordinator of Monitoring and Shirley Young, Facilitator of Monitoring, Michigan Office of Special Education and Early Intervention Services; Jacque Thompson, State Special Education Director, Michigan Office of Special Education and Early Intervention Services; Dawn Downer, Part C Coordinator, First Steps, Indiana Bureau of Child Development; Ann Ruhmkorff , Training & Quality Review Contractor, UTS ProKids, Inc.
Host: Jennifer Huisken‐LaPointe (NCRRC) 2:00pm - Invited State Break-outs - State Monitoring and Program Staff: Communicating and Working Together (Parts B & C)
Session Description: Staff of Pennsylvania’s Part C & 619 programs and Virginia’s Part B program share and discuss ways to organize and integrate state monitoring and technical assistance across programs and staff. Presenters: Mark Ishman, Division Chief, Bureau of Early Intervention Services, Pennsylvania Public Welfare’s Office of Child Development and Early Learning; Sue Zeiders, Project Manager, Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network/Early Intervention Technical Assistance and Doug Cox, Assistant Superintendent, Special Education and Student Services, Virginia Department of Education
Host: Betty Beale (SERRC) 2:00pm - Invited State Break-outs - Integrated Systems of Evaluating Improvement Activities (Parts B & C)
Session Description: This session will describe two states' efforts to develop a system to evaluate improvement activities in their State Performance Plans. State processes, evaluation plans, templates and examples will be shared for both Part B and Part C.
Presenters: Jodi Fleck, Principal Education Consultant, Illinois State Board of Education; Pam Williams, Coordinator Special Education Services, Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education; Joyce Jackman, Coordinator, Early Intervention Services, Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Host: Ann Bailey (NCRRC) 2:00pm - Invited State Break-outs - Local Determinations and Public Reporting (Part B)
Session Description: Vermont will discuss the challenges of choosing criteria for determinations and responses from LEAs within the context of its' General Supervision System. Massachusetts will share its public reporting system for LEAs and discuss its decision‐making process in the development of this system.
Presenters: Dave Phillips, Business Analyst, Vermont Department of Education; Alicia Hanrahan, Monitoring Team Leader, Vermont Department of Education; Marty Mittnacht, State Director of Special Education, Special Education Planning and Policy Development Office, Massachusetts Department of Education; William Blackwell, Educational Specialist, Special Education Planning and Policy Development Office, Massachusetts Department of Education
Host: Arlene Russell (WRRC) 3:45pm - OSEP Plenary - The Impact and Influence of the APR on MSIP’s Work: Technical Assistance and
the Verification Process
Session Description: In this plenary session, OSEP will present information regarding SPP/APR‐related technical assistance and OSEP's verification visit process for FFY 2008. In closing the conference, any remaining issues will be addressed.
Presenters: Ruth Ryder, Director, MSIP, OSEP; Susan Falkenhan, Education Program Specialist, MSIP, OSEP; Ellen Safranek, Education Program Specialist, MSIP, OSEP |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 18 September 2008 )
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Statewide Systems of Support (SSOS) Webinars |
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Below is a link to the registration site for the first in a series of Statewide Systems of Support (SSOS) Webinars. This Webinar is scheduled for July 15th, 2008 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. EDT. There is no charge for the Webinars which are open to Department of Education-funded projects only. We are also providing a chapter entitled A Mountain Beyond Mountains, by Paul Reville, taken from the Handbook on Statewide Systems of Support developed by the Center on Innovation and Improvement (CII). We hope that you will download this thought-provoking chapter from the registration site and read it prior to the Webinar.
The SSOS series is being planned and carried out collaboratively between OESE and OSEP technical assistance providers in response to recommendations made following the 2008 Leveraging Resources Conference. It is our hope that this event will help to re-invigorate the dialogue that started at that meeting, and subsequent Webinars will help us to continue this discourse until we meet again at our next Leveraging Resources Conference scheduled for March 25th and 26th, 2009.
If you are interested in learning from and with your colleagues about how you can best work with States as they plan and implement their SSOS, please plan on participating in this first Webinar. Subsequent Webinars will be developed, based on the input you provide to us during this initial event.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 03 July 2008 )
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