Focus on the Possibilities Patty Guard, Acting Director Office of Special Education Programs

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Focus on the PossibilitiesPatty Guard, Acting
DirectorOffice of Special Education Programs
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Our Goal

• --is to ensure that young people finish high
  school with the tools to be productive citizens
  in all aspects of their liveswork, family,
  community and leisure activities

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Focus on Systems Learning

• We must... become adept at learning. We must
  become able not only to transform our
  institutions, in response to changing situations
  and requirements we must invent and develop
  institutions and societies that are "learning
  systems," that is to say, systems capable of
  bringing about their own continuing
  transformation.- Donald A. Schon, Beyond the
  Stable State (1971) p. 30

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Education as a Learning System What Will it
Take?

• Reflective practice at all system levels
• Data-based decision making
• Evidence-based programs and practices -
  implemented with fidelity
• Program evaluation
• Sharing tacit knowledge though CoPs
• Multi-level feed-back loops

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NCLB and IDEA Provide Tools for Learning

• NCLB
• AYP data disaggregated by subgroups
• School improvement plans
• Evidence-based practices
• IDEA
• State Performance Plans and Annual Performance
  Reports
• Response to Intervention
• Evidence-based practices

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Possibilities for School and District Level
Learning

• AYP disaggregated data
• Student progress monitoring
• Response to Intervention

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Possibilities for SEA Level Learning

• State assessments under NCLB
• Disaggregated AYP data by district, school and
  subgroup
• HQT data
• SPP/APRs
• Progress on indicator reaching targets
• Evaluation of improvement strategies
• GSEGs

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Possibilities for Federal Level Learning

• NCLB AYP data for disability subgroup
• SPP/APR analyses
• MSIP determinations
• TAD Projects indicator analyses
• TAD Projects
• Communities of Practice

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State Capacity Building For Implementation and
Scaling-up

• OSEP/OESE collaboration designed for learning at
  all levels
• Focus on implementation and scale-up
• Across general and special education
• Will work intensively with six states and
  relevant TA Projects
• Regional Implementation Teams/State
  Transformational Teams
• Community of Practice (CoP)
• Internal Department of Education team

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Other 07 OSEP Investments

• SPDG 24 Awards
• Data Accountability Center
• Center on Response to Intervention

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Possibilities for National Organization Learning

• IDEA Partnership Project
• RTI Summit

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Tying It All Together

• Goal to ensure that all young people finish
  high school with the tools to be productive
  citizens in all aspects of their lives work,
  family, community and leisure activities.
• And join together to become life-long learners.

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Endless Possibilities
Let us put our heads together and see what life
we will make for our children. Tatanka Iotanka
(Sitting Bull, Lakota Leader)