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About the Center
The North Central Regional Resource Center is one of six Regional Resource Centers (RRCs) funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). RRCs assist state education agencies in the systemic improvement of education programs, practices, and policies that impact infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities and their families. An important role of an RRC is to identify and broker integrated solutions through ongoing state needs assessment, consultation, information dissemination, and technical assistance activities.
Our Mission
The North Central RRC's mission is to engage Region 4 states in the proactive identification and implementation of technical assistance and dissemination (TA&D) supports that lead to sustainable systems change. These efforts will be reflected by increased accountability and improved results for infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities and their families. Center Services
The North Central Regional Resource Center will achieve its mission through a series of coordinated activities: - Strategic Planning and Reporting will allow North Central staff to coordinate activities within each state in Region 4 to match state improvement needs with TA&D resources. North Central staff will use information from major state data collection, reporting, improvement, and accountability efforts to assist states with identifying needs to develop internal planning processes for statewide improvement.
- State Level Technical Assistance will be based on specific needs of states and local education agencies and will involve such activities as specialized consultation, process facilitation, and training.
- On-demand, Web-based Information from a variety of sources, including Communities of Practice (CoPs), research-based practices, and effective state data management and reporting practices (CIFMS, NCLB), will be aimed at developing State-to-State Networks to assist states in meeting the requirements of various OSEP policies.
- Cross-State Linking and Networking will create opportunities to promote cross-state relationships and collaboration. North Central staff will encourage Region 4 states to actively participate in OSEP’s Communities of Practice, develop state-to-state peer networks in specific content areas for Part B and C staff, and provide opportunities to promote cross-state relationships and collaboration. These efforts will be accomplished through Web-based CoP technologies (Website, listservs).
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 31 January 2006 )
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