 News from the IDEA Partnership
- During the National Autism Society Conference (July 7-10), IDEA Partnership Activity Leaders from American Association of School Administrators (AASA) and the Council for Administrators of Special Education (CASE) worked with leaders of the National Community of Practice on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to update and expand the ASD Collection.
- Partners from the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP), the Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE) and the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) presented at the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) Project Directors’ Conference held July 19–21, 2010 on developing collaborative relationships with professional and family organizations as a way to disseminate evidence-based practices and promote supportive contexts for children with disabilities.
News from our Partner Organizations
Autism Society of America
State Resources
This section of the website provides autism resource information for every state and includes links to state offices and organizations important to the Autism community.
Education Commission of the States (ECS)
Pay for Performance Proposals in Race to the Top Round II Applications
This document presents the key takeaways related to performance pay from all 36 Race to the Top (RttT) round II applications.
State Reports On the Cost of Remedial Education
This paper summarizes state reports on the cost of college remedial education.
Technical Assistance Alliance for Parent Centers
Working Together: A Parent’s Guide to Parent and Professional Partnership and Communication within Special Education
This document helps parents effectively communicate with special education professionals as they develop their child’s educational program.
 News from the U.S. Department of Education
Early Learning Initiative Web Page
The website includes presentation materials, a webinar, blog posts and public comments from the Listening and Learning about Early Learning tour.
ED Data Express
This website provides access to some of the important data that the U.S. Department of Education collects from the 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
Institute of Education Sciences’ What Works Clearinghouse
Intervention: Literacy Express
The What Works Clearinghouse has published an updated Early Childhood Education Report that reviews the research on Literacy Express, a preschool curriculum for improving oral language, literacy, basic math, science, general knowledge and socio-emotional development.
 News from the Technical Assistance & Dissemination Network
Center for Implementing Technology in Education (CITEd)
Differentiating Instruction Online Course
Learn how differentiating instruction through technology helps address all students' needs. This is a self-guided, online professional development course.
Data Accountability Center (DAC)
Conference Presentations June 2010
The Data Accountability Center has posted 19 presentations from the IDEA Part B and Part C data meetings held in June 2010.
The Family Center on Technology and Disability
Family Information Guide to Assistive Technology and Transition Planning
The FCTD Family Information Guide to Assistive Technology and Transition Planning includes the following sections:
- An Introduction to Transition Planning and Assistive Technology
- How Make a Successful Transition with Your Assistive Technology
- Laws Governing Accommodations and Transition in Birth-12 & Postsecondary Settings
- Glossary of AT and Transition Terms
- Additional AT and Transition Resources
Family Information Guide to Assistive Technology
The FCTD Family Guide to Assistive Technology includes the following sections:
- The Possibilities of Assistive Technology (AT)
- Assistive Technology in Schools
- Funding AT
- Quick Questions and Tips
- Glossary of AT Terms and Definitions
- Additional AT Information Resources
IRIS Center
Fidelity of Implementation: Selecting and Implementing Evidence-Based Practices and Programs
This module discusses the importance of selecting evidence-based practices and programs for use in your practice. It also examines actions that school personnel can take to increase the likelihood that the practice or program is implemented as it was designed.
National Center on Accessible Instructional Materials
Accessible Media
This site provides information about alternate-format materials to support access and enable participation in the general curriculum by students with print disabilities. Accessible media that can be used to support diverse learners in the classroom are also discussed.
September webinars include:
Dates: September 14 from 1-2pm (EDT)
Registration: https://aim.ilinc.com/register/ysyzhpp.
This session is for people with varied AIM-related interests and responsibilities. Main topics include: NIMAS and AIM in federal education statutes, AIM and copyright legislation, a brief overview of decision-making around the selection, acquisition, and use of accessible materials, and information about useful resources. Participation in an AIM Basics session is considered a prerequisite for the other AIM Center webinars.
- AIM Center Supports for Decision-Making Teams
DATE: September 14 from 3-4 pm (EDT)
Registration: https://aim.ilinc.com/register/vbmtjsh
This webinar includes a guided tour of the AIM Center web site highlighting information and tools that support effective decision-making in all phases of selecting, providing, and using accessible instructional materials for the participation and achievement of students.
National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO)
Earning a High School Diploma through Alternative Routes: NCEO Synthesis Report 76
This report examines alternative routes in 26 states with active or soon-to-be active exit exams that are required for earning a high school diploma, and documents the alternative routes for earning a high school diploma available for all students and those specifically for students with disabilities.
National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (TQ Center)
Challenges in Evaluating Special Education Teachers and English Language Learner Specialists
This brief from the TQ Center offers policy and practice recommendations for regions, states and districts to help them create teacher evaluation systems that reflect the measurement of academic achievement growth of students and how to connect that growth to their teachers.
National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (NECTAC)
Response to Intervention (RTI) in Early Childhood
NECTAC has developed a new topic page with links to research and development projects in RTI for the pre-k population.
National High School Center
Tiered Interventions in High Schools: Using Preliminary “Lessons Learned” to Guide Ongoing Discussion
This document provides a brief description of the RTI framework and the essential components of RTI, illustrates how the essential components of RTI were implemented at eight schools. It highlights factors unique to high schools and examines how these factors can affect school-level implementation of tiered interventions.
National Center to Improve the Recruitment and Retention of Qualified Personnel for Children with Disabilities (Personnel Improvement Center or PIC)
Personnel Data Collection, Reporting and Analysis: Critical Issue #1:
This website section is a resource for state staff interested in creating their own data management process and is based on interviews of five state "models" for developing and implementing the process,
Personnel Preparation Program Partnerships that Meet Local Needs: Critical Issue #2
This website section outlines the issues and essential elements of personnel preparation program partnerships. It is a resource for state staff interested in creating their own personnel preparation program partnerships among their SEA, LEAs and IHEs.
Best Practices in Recruitment and Retention of Special Education-related Personnel: Critical Issue #3
The PIC provides resources for states to develop and implement best practices for recruiting and retaining qualified personnel to work with children with disabilities. The PIC has also created a blog where you can share concerns and ideas for addressing this issue
Project CONNECT
Foundations of Transition for Young Children
This 8-minute video provides an overview of the desirable outcomes of transition, research identifying effective transition practices, as well as the legal requirements of early childhood transition.
Project Forum @ NASDSE
Virtual K-12 Public School Programs and Students with Disabilities: Issues and Recommendations: A Policy Proceedings Document
This policy forum proceedings describes the current status of virtual public school programs in general and special education programs in particular. The major points emphasized during the policy forum included personnel quality and preparation; accessibility for students with disabilities; accountability, preparing and implementing quality IEPs; roles and responsibilities and financial issues.
News from Other Agencies, Centers, and Organizations
Annie E. Casey Foundation
2010 Kids Count Data Book
This report finds that overall improvements in child well-being, which began in the late 1990s, stalled in the years leading up to the current economic downturn.
Association of Assistive Technology Act Programs
AT Program by State
AT Manufacturers and Distributors by State
These two resources provide information about each states’ AT programs.
State Assistive Technology (AT) Act Programs work to improve access to assistive technology for individuals with disabilities through comprehensive statewide programs. These programs include device loans, AT reuse, device demonstrations and state financing activities.
Council of State Governments (CSG)
A Survey of State Disability Policy, 2010
Summary
Full Report
On the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities in July, 2010, CSG released a comprehensive survey of state policy related to disabilities featuring nearly 149 different entries from 31 states, in an effort to help spread awareness of these programs from across the nation.
Disability Business Technical Assistance Centers (DBTACs)
Accessible Technology Webinar Series
DBTAC has sponsored a webinar series on accessible technology and presentations have been archived.
FindYouthInfo.gov
FindYouthInfo.gov is the U.S. government website that helps you create, maintain and strengthen effective youth programs. Included are youth facts, funding information and tools to help you assess community assets, generate maps of local and federal resources, search for evidence-based youth programs and keep up-to-date on the latest youth-related news.
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Department of Education: Improved Dissemination and Timely Product Release Would Enhance the Usefulness of the What Works Clearinghouse. GAO-10-644, July 23
Highlights
GAO recommends that IES: develop and implement strategies to avoid backlogs in WWC product reviews; establish performance measures related to costs and usefulness; and improve dissemination efforts to promote
National Center for Learning Disabilities: RTI Action Network
Response to Intervention: Helping All Students Succeed
In this video, school and district administrators and teachers discuss how RTI can be effective in helping all students succeed.
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