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Improving Special Education Services (ISES) & State Performance and Personnel Development Plan (SPPDP)

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), as amended in 2004, made changes to how the state education agency measures and reports outcomes to the United States Department of Education (ED). The State Performance Plan (SPP) describes how the state will meet these new requirements. The SPP, a six-year plan for special education, is approved by the State Board of Education and is updated annually through the Annual Performance Report (APR).

All state level planning in special education needs to be tied to the SPP. Specifically the SPDG requires alignment to the SPP and the State Plan for No Child Left Behind. By way of example, States applying for competitively awarded SPDG funds are required to address needs identified through the SPP and the APR process.

Previously CDE has relied on several diverse planning groups to address such things as personnel development, monitoring and accountability, and fiscal management. It became apparent that all of these groups should become part of a unified planning process guided by the SPP. In January of 2007, CDE, along with the required partners reconstituted the scope and function of the Partnership Committee on Special Education (PCSE) and the Key Performance Indicator Stakeholder Committee (KPISC).

The California Department of Education combined the members of the two former planning groups and created the Improving Special Education Services (ISES): Through Planning, Personnel Development, and Performance Reporting Group. The ISES group meets two times per year.

Please see related links below to access meeting agenda’s, Work Group descriptions and recommendations, support documents and meeting evaluations.

ISES Stakeholder Membership List 2012-2013 adobe pdf (49kb) | HTML

 

2013 ISES Meeting

June 5, 2013 ISES

ISES Meeting Agenda

 

ISES Meeting Materials

Archive

December 3, 2012

ISES Meeting Agenda

 

ISES Meeting Materials

 

ISES Pre Meetings Opportunities for Discussion Groups

ISES Discussion Groups

  • Discussion Group Descriptions adobe pdf (61kb) | HTML
    1. Least Restrictive Environment
    2. Transition to Adult Life
      Secondary transition issues were discussed including current date for Indicator 13, Secondary Transition
    3. Disproportionality
      Executive Summary FFY 2010 for the California Annual Performance Report (APR) - Previous Year
      http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/se/qa/documents/execsumapr2010.doc
      This executive summary report describes the State's progress or slippage in meeting the measureable and rigorous targets established in the SPP; and any revisions to the State's targets, improvement activities or resources in the SPP and justifications for the revisions. The full APR is avilable at http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/se/qa/documents/aprffy2010.doc
    4. Results-Driven Accountability
      The Goal of the Results Driven Accountability (RDA) discussion group is to build an understanding of RDA among participants, the reasons and impacts of this move by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), and discuss needs in this area.
      A narrated PowerPoint provides ISES members an overview of this OSEP effort.

Related Webinars produced since last ISES meeting

California Community of Practice on Secondary Transition Webinar Series: Triangulating Postsecondary Goals Topic includes: Identifying postsecondary goals and aligning them with academic and industry standards

webinar Transition COP - March 20, 2012

For more information please contact Jill Larson, CDE Consultant, at jlarsen@cde.ca.gov

 

webinar Transition COP - February 21, 2012

For more information please contact Jill Larson, CDE Consultant, at jlarsen@cde.ca.gov

 

webinar Personnel Data Survey Webinar - March 8, 2012

In response to requests from the last Improving Special Education Services (ISES) meeting, staff from the California Department of Education (CDE) a Personnel Data Reporting Webinar was presented on Thursday, March 8, 2012,.

For more information please contact Patricia Skelton, CDE Consultant, at pskelton@cde.ca.gov

 

webinar LRE Webinar March 22, 2012

In response to requests from the last Improving Special Education Services (ISES) meeting, staff from the California Department of Education (CDE) and the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) Resources Project provided a Webinar on, Thursday, March 22, 2012, on the preliminary results of an analysis of the LRE from the California Special Education Management Information System (CASEMIS). The Webinar focused on the districts that are showing the highest percentage according to their LRE and Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) data. Elements used in the review were discussed as well as proposed additional elements in which stakeholders provided input.

For more information please contact Lynn Wyatt, CDE Consultant, at lwyatt@cde.ca.gov

 

webinar Transition Webinar - April 24, 2012

For more information please contact Jill Larson, CDE Consultant, at jlarsen@cde.ca.gov

 

 

Contact Information

All questions and communications related to ISES should be addressed to CalSTAT Project Coordinator Marin Brown at (707) 849-2265 or marin.brown@calstat.org.

Last updated: 05/16/2013