Transcript Office of Special Education Improving Results for Students

Office of Special Education
Improving Results for Students
with Disabilities
Topics
• Overview of Special Education Technical
Assistance Centers
• ESEA and IDEA Accountability Systems
• Special Education and Race To The Top
Technical Assistance Goals
1. Timely and appropriate identification of
students with disabilities
2. Support and provide information to parents of
students with disabilities
3. Accessible instructional materials
4. Address personnel shortage areas
5. Improve instructional programs and outcomes
– Literacy, behavior and specially-designed instruction
6. Promote nonadversarial dispute resolution
NYSED Special Education
Technical Assistance Centers
Center for Autism and
Related Disorders
Accessible Instructional
Materials (AIM)
Special
Education
Parent Centers
Early
Childhood
Direction Centers
Projects to Address
Personnel Shortages
Transition TAC
Technical
Assistance Center
on Disproportionality
(TAC-D)
PBIS TAC
S³TAIR Project
RSE-TASC
Response
to Intervention
TAC
http://www.p12.nysed.gov/specialed/techassist/
State Technical Assistance Centers
• Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
http://nyspbis.org/
• Transition Services: Professional Development Support Center
www.transitionsource.org
• Network Capacity: Professional Learning Center
• Response to Intervention (RtI) – www.nysrti.org
• Technical Assistance Center on Disproportionality (NYU)
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/metrocenter/tacd
• Autism Behavioral Support Project (Center for Autism and Related
Disorders) http://www.albany.edu/autism/
Special Education Parent Centers
Thirteen Regional Centers Across NYS
• Established to promote effective
parental and family engagement
in the education of students with
disabilities.
• The Centers provide parents of
children with disabilities the
information and resources
necessary to promote their
meaningful involvement in their
children’s education programs.
Early Childhood Direction
Centers
• Matching the needs of children
with available services
• Assisting parents in obtaining
services
• Following up to ensure that
children receive services
• Coordination of services between
agencies
• Education of parents of preschool
children with disabilities
http://www.p12.nysed.gov/sp
ecialed/techassist/ecdc/home
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Accessible Instructional Materials
http://www.p12.nysed.gov/specialed/aim/
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Response To Intervention
New Federal State Personnel
Development Grant
2012-2017
Goals
• Early Recognition and
Response (Pre-K RtI)
• Years 1-2: 80 districts
• Elementary School
• Years 3-4: 80 districts
(up to 3 schools each)
(up to 3 schools each)
• Middle School
• All districts, private
schools, preschools and
BOCES – Webinars
• Partnerships
Objectives
• Expand capacity of the NYS Rti-TAC
• Establish four regional professional
development teams
• Provide sequenced professional
development to schools
• On-site technical assistance to districts
• Information to parents
Regional Special Education Technical
Assistance Support Centers
• Regional Coordinators
• Special Education School
Improvement (115)
• Behavior
• Bilingual Special Education
• Transition
• Special Education Trainers
RSE-TASC
• Nondistrict Program Specialists
Alignment of IDEA and NCLB
Accountability Systems
1. Identification Criteria
2. Diagnostic Reviews
– Special Education School Improvement Specialist
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Subgroup specialist on the team
3. Technical assistance resources dedicated
– Ongoing and embedded professional development
to support implementation of school improvement
plans as they relate to students with disabilities
Instruction for Students with
Disabilities
What is special education?
Special Education Programs and
Services
and
Specially Designed Instruction
Special Education Services and
Programs
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Consultant teacher (CT)
Related services
Resource room program (RR)
Integrated co-teaching services (ICT)
Special class
Adapted physical education
Special transportation
* NYC only – waiver to provide Special Education Teacher Services (SETS) combination of resource room and CT
Specially Designed Instruction
NYS Regulation: Section 200.1(vv)
Adapting, as appropriate to the needs of
an eligible student, the content,
methodology, or delivery of instruction to
address the unique needs that result from
the student’s disability; and to ensure
access of the student to the general
curriculum, so that he or she can meet the
education standards that apply to all
students.
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An Analogy….
Specially Designed Instruction
Differentiated Instruction
Differentiated Instruction
• Educational philosophy
• Maximizing learning for all students
• Deliberate decisions based on student data
• Multiple access points to:
– acquire content
– process & construct ideas
– demonstrate learning
Universal Design for Learning
• Flexible curriculum framework
• Maximizes learning for all students
• Deliberate decisions based on student data
• Based on learning pathways in brain
– Recognition
– Strategic
– Affective
Scaffolding
• Instructional support to promote learning of new
concepts & skills
• Deliberately planned based on student data
– Lesson Planning
– During Instruction
• Scaled back as student mastery increases
• Flexibly changes from lesson to lesson
– Groups of students
– Individual students
Specially Designed Instruction
• Individualized
• Based upon assessed needs of student
• Documented in the Individualized Education Program
(IEP)
• Combination of specific instructional supports &
supplemental supports
• Functions to:
– Compensate
– Remediate
– Overcome
Race to the Top and RSE-TASC:
Goals in Common