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California Stakeholder Group State Performance and Personnel Development Plan Stakeholders

California Department of Education Special Education Division Mary Hudler, Director Special Education

January 29-30, 2007 Sacramento, California Radisson Hotel

Original State Improvement Grant (SIG)

Overall Purpose

• Improve outcomes for students with disabilities
• Ensure adequate supply of qualified personnel with content knowledge and skills
• Established this group Partnership Committee on Special Education (PCSE)

How Did We Get Here?

• What is our History?
• What has changed?
• Where are we now?
• How was I selected?
• What is my role as a stakeholder?
• What is our continued work now and in the future?
• How will that happen?

History: Planning

SIG assisted CDE

• Statewide needs assessment
• Applied & received federal State Improvement Grant (SIG)
  - Established Partnership Committee for Special Education (PCSE) (1x yr)
  - Established PCSE Evaluation subcommittee (2x yr)
  - TA contractors (4x yr)
• Provided recommendations on grant priorities/core messages
• Implemented improvement activities
• Evaluated activities

CDE

• Conducted general supervision activities.
• Identified and corrected noncompliance (FAPE in the LRE)
• Conducted planning activities with a variety of planning participants & processes
• Used data: Key Performance Indicators (KPIs, monitoring, complaints, Due process, CASEMIS, Other)
• Conducted annual and periodic processes to review outcomes for accomplishments, effectiveness, used outside evaluators

History: Improvement Activities

SIG provided

• Customized training and technical assistance to LEAs, parent groups, colleges, universities
• Based on research and tied to SIG core messages
• School site team focus
• Statewide Leadership Institute

CDE provided

• Monitoring activities to address emergent needs
• Corrective actions to be targeted based on data
• Utilized consultants & contractors for technical assistance
• Provided Special Education Division (SED) messages, guidance, publications, web casts and other web content, special short term research

What has Changed?

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) 2004 required...

• State Educational Agency (SEA) to provide measures and reports on specific outcomes to the United States Department of Education (USDOE)
• Established the State Performance Plan (SPP)
  - Describes how the state will meet these new requirements
  - Six year plan
• Established the Annual Performance Report
  - Describes how the state met those outcomes described in the SPP
• All state level planning in special education
  - Tied to the SPP
  - State Personnel Development Grant (SPDG) to IDEA and No Child Left Behind (NCLB)

Please Note

• Stakeholder roles and responsibilities remain significant
• Our work outcomes remain the same
  - Improve outcomes for students with disabilities
  - Ensure qualified staff
  - Continue our required general supervision activities as a state
• Our work planning strategies are different

Where are we now?

As a state we are...

• Establishing a unified planning and improvement process
• Shifting the activities of several diverse planning groups that addressed a variety of state needs...
  - Personnel Development
  - Accountability
  - Monitoring
• Reconstituting the scope and function of the PCSE
  - Continue our work with required partners
  - Reduce numbers of meetings

How was I selected? What is my role as a stakeholder?

Selection

• Leadership, knowledge
• Meet new SPDG grant requirements
• Diversity of voices
  - Parents, teachers, administrators, professors, state staff, contracted staff, students

Role & Responsibilities

• Represent your organization
• Attend bi-annual meetings
• Understand the SPP/APR
• Gain information & provide it to others in your organization
• Provide input and recommendations on specific indicators, SPDG activities

What is our work now?

January 2007 Meeting Outcomes

Through presentations, work groups and conversations...

• Learn about the SPP and APR
• Provide your comments, ask questions, reflect on the SPP/APR submission of February 1, 2007
• Have opportunity to clearly understand each of the SPP/APR Indicators and state improvement activities including data
• Have opportunity to learn from the unified stakeholder group their comments and input
• Begin new process as a unified stakeholder group
• Inform the grants writers work in writing the new SPDG (May 2007)
• Inform our work for the Spring 2007 meeting

What is our work in the future?

Spring 2007 Outcomes

Through presentations, work groups and conversations...

• Continue to learn about the SPP and PR
• Have opportunity to clearly understand each of the SPP/APR Indicators and state improvement activities
• Begin examination of new data
• Provide your comments, ask questions, reflect on the future SPP/APR submission of February 1, 2008
• Continue our new process as a unified planning stakeholder group about improvement activities
• Learn about the new SPDG
• Inform our work for the Fall 2008 meeting

How will that happen?

Ideas for now include...

• Receive written and electronic information for the Spring meeting from CalSTAT
  - Information and outcome of the January meeting
  - Grant update
  - SPP/APR updates
  - Other information that impacts improvement activities and outcomes for our students
  - Online input
  - CDE website
  - CalSTAT website
  - Other