The RRC Program and NECTAC recently collaborated together to write Evaluating SPP/APR Improvement Activities. This document is focused on helping State Education Agency (SEA) staff, Lead Agency (LA) staff, and TA providers in creating a meaningful review of the State Performance Plan (SPP)/Annual Performance Review (APR) improvement activities. It provides 1) information about the relevance of evaluation in the context of improvement planning and strategic systems thinking; 2) guidance on selecting an appropriate design for evaluating different types of improvement activities and; 3) additional resources and tools that support the overall design, implementation and evaluation of the SPP which may serve as a State's blueprint for systems improvement.
Posted on: Friday, February 26, 2010
Recent Information Requests Submitted to the NCRRC
Information Services provided reports in response to 2 Information Requests in January. The following list describes the requests, using the descriptor terms from the Matrix thesaurus as an organizing device. Attached is a list of the actual questions as well. Please contact Rebekah Rieke, Program Coordinator, at if you would like further information about any of these searches.
Preschool children, gifted and talented
Monitoring, compliance, notification, processes
Posted on: Friday, February 26, 2010
Report on IDEA Part B Maintenance of Effort Reduction and Coordinated Early Intervening Services
TProject Forum has recently published Early Childhood Mental Health Services: Four State Case Studies by Kim Moherek Sopko, Ed.D. This document can be found at the Project Forum website here. Project Forum's aim is to facilitate improved services to children and youth with disabilities by gathering and sharing information that supports changes to policy and practice at the national, state, and local levels.
