SPDG Program Overview

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• SPDG Program Overview
• Jennifer Coffey, October 2009

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Welcome New SPDG cohort FY2009

• Arkansas
• Colorado
• Indiana
• Tennessee

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• Monthly Webinars/Evaluators calls
• Technology Initiative
• Low Incidence Affinity Group
• Evaluators
• Implementation and Scaling Up
• Continuation reporting - program measures
• Roles and responsibilities
• Updates to personnel
• Planning groups

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Monthly Webinars recent topics
(http//www.signetwork.org/notes.html)

• National RTI Center Update and SPDG Continuation
  and Final Reporting
• Using Technology for Professional Development,
  Technical Assistance, and Strategic Communication
• Scaling Up Capacity Knowledge, Skills, and
  Abilities in Context
• National RTI Center Technical Assistance
  Documentation and Implementation

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Webinar topics, cont

• Building Unified Education Systems Using IDEA
  Partnership Tools and Processes
• Creating Customized Evaluation Reports for
  Stakeholders
• Ohios Collaborative Initiatives to Improve
  Teaching of Students with Disabilities
• Reaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse
  Families and Other Hard to Reach Audiences
  Through Technology and Partnerships/Collaborating
  with Parent Programs

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Technology Talk

• Using online surveys
• Virtual environments
• Video conferencing
• Holding Webinars

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Evaluators calls

• Measuring Teacher Retention
• Massachusetts SPDG Family Engagement Initiative
• Evaluation of Alabama and Georgias Math
  Initiative

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Low-incidence affinity group

• Innovative approaches related to recruiting and
  preparing LI practitioners
• Collaboration of State special education, state
  certification departments, and IHEs to provide
  distance based course work

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Implementation and Scaling Up

• Implementation Drivers and Scale Up presentations
  during SIG Day
• Follow-up calls to SIG Day
• Requests to have a way to collaborate with other
  SPDGs thinking-through implementation challenges
• Round table?
• Use of technology?
• State Readiness Community of Practice

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Continuation reporting - program measures

• Follow the directions that come with the
  continuation package
• Every project must report on all Program measures
• Use the descriptive information section
• Work with your Project Officer as you are putting
  the report together, if you have any questions

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Roles and Responsibilities

• Roles
• SIGnetwork Coordinator
• OSEP Program Lead
• OSEP Project Evaluator Lead
• OSEP Project Officers
• Grants management responsibilities
• Request approval for change in key personnel
• Send the new staffs resume to your project
  officer
• Request approval for significant changes in your
  budget
• Request approval for changes in the scope of your
  project

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Roles and responsibilities, cont.

• And please
• Let Audrey and your Project Officer know when
  contact information changes
• Request that new staff be added to the
  appropriate listserv
• Let your Project Officer know how often you would
  like to meet with them
• Try to involve your evaluator in SPDG program
  activities

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Planning Groups

• Technology Focus Workgroup
• SIG Day
• Regional Meetings
• Facilitation

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Regional Meeting Planning Group

• SPDG Directors/Coordinators
• Toyah Robey, Kentucky SPDG Director
• Pam Rosen, Maine SPDG Director
• Jon Dyson, Rhode Island SPDG Director
• Steve Goodman, Michigan SPDG Co-Director
• Julia Causey, Georgia SPDG Director
• Evaluators
• Amy Erickson, Evaluator, Missouri SPDG
• Hayley Cavino, Evaluator, New York SPDG
• Other
• Jennifer Doolittle and Pat Gonzalez, OSEP
• Jeanna Mullins, MSRRC
• Audrey Desjarlais, SIGnetwork

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Thanks to Coaching Facilitators!

• Washington, DC
• Susan Davis
• Tom Manthey
• Margie McGlinchey
• Toyah Robey
• Jeanna Mullins
• Kansas City, MO
• Howie Knoff
• Julia LePage
• John Green
• Kerry Haag