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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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