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March 2008 TAESE Newsletter 8 |
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New OSEP-Funded Centers
National Technical Assistance and Dissemination Center on Response to Intervention (CFDA 84.326)
This Center will provide technical assistance and dissemination (TA&D) about proven and promising models for Response to Intervention (RTI) and Early Intervening Services (EIS) to State and local educators, families, and other interested and appropriate stakeholders nationally. Website: http://www.rti4success.org.
Data Accountability Center (DAC)
Based on State needs related to Part B and Part C data quality, DAC will work with States to collect, analyze, and report high-quality data. This includes State data submitted to OSEP on standard data collection forms approved by the Office of Management and Budget (often referred to as 618 data) and monitoring data (often referred to as 616 data) required for State Performance Plans (SPPs) and Annual Performance Reports (APRs).
Website: http://www.IDEAdata.org.
The State Implementation of Scaling-up Evidence-based Practices (SISEP) Center
This center promotes scaling up State implementation capacity to support evidence based practices designed to improve students’ academic achievement and behavioral health. To reach this goal, SISEP works with selected States to improve their capacity to carry out implementation, organizational change, and systems transformation strategies to maximize education outcomes of all students in each State. Working in close cooperation with State leaders and relevant TA Centers, SISEP provides the critical content and foundation for establishing a technology of large-scale, sustainable, high-fidelity implementation of effective educational practice. Website: http://www.scalingup.org.
Technical Assistance Center on Social-Emotional Intervention for Young Children
This project will identify, disseminate, and assist in the implementation of the most successful, evidence-based practices available to improve the social, emotional, and behavioral functioning of young children with or at risk of disabilities. The project represents a collaborative effort among professionals from the University of South Florida; the University of Colorado at Denver; and Health Science Center at Vanderbilt University, Georgetown University, and the University of Kansas. Website: http://challengingbehavior.fmhi.usf.edu/.
Center to Mobilize Early Childhood Knowledge
This project is designed to address the need for highly qualified personnel in special education, related services, early intervention, and early care and education to work with young children with disabilities (aged 0–5) and their families. The aim is to develop, validate, and disseminate evidence-based resources, including training modules, for use by providers of professional development (PD) who provide training to the targeted constituent groups.
The National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorders
This national multisite project will promote the use of evidence-based practices (EBP) for (a) early screening and diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD); (b) intervention and education that result in optimal child and family outcomes and span the age range from infancy to early adulthood (22 years of age); (c) intense, sustainable, outcome-based training that leverages optimal use of existing resources; (d) technical assistance for delivery of effective services for establishment of model sites of EBP and for a sustainable system of training and technical assistance; and (c) evaluation/measurement of child, practitioner, and system-levels outcomes.
Website: http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~autismPDC.
National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality
The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (NCCTQ) is dedicated to providing current strategies and research-based practice and policy to assist teacher preparation programs as they evolve to meet the needs of new teachers. Realizing a need to support teachers of general education who are preparing to teach students with disabilities as well as special education teachers who coteach in general education classrooms, NCCTQ has developed the NCCTQ Connection. This new online resource is designed to support educators through content-rich resource and an online discussion forum. Website: http://www.ncctq.org.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 30 March 2008 )
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