District Announcements

1
ESC-2 Joint Curriculum and Special Education
Directors Meeting December 17, 2008

• Welcome
• District Announcements

2
Bones in Schools

• Owen Hopkins, Co-Chair Academic Liaison Corpus
  Christi Geological Society
• http//www.ccgeo.org

3
Core Curriculum

• Mathematics
• Science
• Reading/ELA
• Social Studies
• Library Services

4
TAMUCC Reading ConferencesDeb Culbertson

• CEDER What Your Professional Learning Community
  Should Know About
• January 30-31
• National Literacy Summit
• April 3-4

5
Early Childhood UpdatesKaren Turner
6
TEEG D.A.T.E. Grant UpdateDawn Schuenemann
7
Title I / NCLB Andi Kuyatt and Joel Trudeau

• School Support Team
• Title I Campus Principal Training January 12,
  2009
• Workshop 0822454
• Response to Intervention in Title I
  Hand-in-Hand January 20, 2009
• Free to NCLB Coop Members
• Workshop 0822230
• NCLB website www.nclb.esc2.net

8
PragmaticsKimberly Cook
9
Differentiation Update Mary Beth Jaeger, Andi
Kuyatt and Joel Trudeau

• Differentiation 101
• Student engagement
• January 21-elementary
• January 22-secondary
• Classroom observations

10
Safe Drug Free SchoolsBill Stein
11
TAKS Flowcharts for Special Education Students
Gracie Pizzini and Barbie Tumlinson

• http//www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/spec
  ial_education/testing_req/index.html

12
ARD Decision-Making Manual Barbie and Gracie

• ESC-2 after the Curriculum and Sped Directors
  Meeting at 130 p.m.

13
ARD Decision-Making Process Goal through Quote

• The federal cap relates to counting students as
  proficient for AYP purposes only and does not
  provide direction to ARD committees regarding how
  students with disabilities should be assessed. It
  is important that local school districts ensure
  that appropriate assessments are selected and
  administered to students with disabilities.---
  AYP Guide

14
ARD Decision-Making Process District Level
Training

• Superintendents
• Testing Coordinators
• Curriculum Directors
• Special Education Administrators
• Bilingual / ESL Coordinators

15
ARD Decision-Making Process Campus Level
Training

• LSSPs
• Counselors
• Teachers
• Special Education Staff
• Bilingual Staff
• Parents

• Principals and other administrators
• Testing Coordinators
• Test Administrators
• Educational Diagnosticians

16
Facilitated IEP ProjectBarbie Tumlinson

• Basic Training January 13 14
• Brush Country (Mathis) Aransas County
• CCISD (4 teams)
• Basic Training January 15 16
• Brush Country (Agua Dulce) Aransas County
• CCISD (4 teams) Flour Bluff
• For these trainings, an email will be sent to
  the directors with the workshop
  passcode.

17
Framework Publications Update Valerie Trevino

• TEA has updated the Notice of Procedural
  Safeguards on the Legal Framework website.
• Please note that the date has not changed on
  these publications, however the change is
  significant to parents and their rights.
• Please use the new documents when giving Notice
  of Procedural Safeguards to your parents and
  adult students.

18
Facilitated IEP ProjectBarbie Tumlinson

• Basic Training February 16 17
• Brush Country (Pettus) Aransas County
• Brush Country (George West) Aransas County
• CCISD ( 3 teams)
• Follow-Up Training February 18
• Advanced Facilitation February 19 - 20
• For these trainings, an email will be sent to
  directly to participants with a copy
  to sp ed directors for advanced facilitators.

19
Facilitated IEP ProjectBarbie Tumlinson

• Parent Training January 12

20
Evaluation Advisory GroupBarbie Tumlinson

• Districts/Charters will send one diagnostician
  and/or LSSP (distribute recommendation forms)
• Responsibilities
• Quarterly meetings and trainings
• Report information and train their own
  evaluation staff

21
Public Meeting for Special Education State
DataValerie Trevino

• January 12, 2009
• 1100 100
• Please address the following questions at your
  district and send information through special
  education director to Nori Mora by January 7th.

22
Public Meeting January 12, 2008

• Question 1How can school personnel and parents
  communicate better in order to improve services
  for students with disabilities?

23
Public Meeting January 12, 2008

• Question 2How can parents and schools support
  learning for students with disabilities who have
  especially challenging behaviors?

24
Public Meeting January 12, 2008

• Question 3What needs to be done so that
  parents, students and members of the community
  understand that goals after graduation may
  include apprenticeship opportunities,
  vocational/technical skills training, higher
  education, and military service?

25
Leadership TrainingsDawn Schuenemann

• Instructional Coaching
• Professional Learning Communities (PLC)
• SMARTWALKS

26
CSCOPE Update Dawn Schuenemann
27
Accountability UpdateDawn Schuenemann

• How to Calculation REQUIRED IMPROVEMENT for AEIS
  and AYP

28
Required ImprovementState vs. Federal

• State Required Improvement
• Gain in percent Met Standard required to reach
  current accountability standard for Academically
  Acceptable or Recognized in 2 years
• RI
• Federal Required Improvement
• 10 reduction in previous years failure rate
• RI

2008 Standard 2007 Performance 2
(100 2007 Performance) x .10
29
E.S.C.A.P.E. 09 DiscussionsDawn Schuenemann

• Survey Monkey
• Dates/Locations
• Effectiveness

30
SPED Meeting DatesDawn Schuenemann

• August 20
• September 17
• October 15
• November 19 (Joint???)
• January 21
• February 18
• April 15
• May 20

31
Curriculum Meeting DatesDawn Schuenemann

• 6 or 4 Meetings per year?
• FOUR Meetings with Tentative Dates for the
  additional TWO?
• Which Months?

32
Grand Central Station Molly Argo Lynnette
Felder (Calallen ISD)

• GCS PowerPoint
• Calallen ISD Data

33
High-Priced/High-Need Workshops?Dawn Schuenemann

• RTI
• Dr. Andrea Ognosky Monitoring Academic Progress
  in a RtI Process
• Dr. Adam Saenz The Teacher Wellness Institute
• Curriculum
• Dr. John Crain Repeat Sessions or New Topic???

34
Other Topics
35
Adjournment

• Hope you enjoy a very happy
• Holiday Season!
• We wish you
• abundance of time
• to spend with your
• family and friends!