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No GSEG? Low Budget Data Initiative with High
Dollar Impact

• Lisa Backer
• 619 Co-Coordinator/ECSE Specialist
• MN Department of Education
• lisa.backer_at_state.mn.us

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The Context
A bit about Minnesota.
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Minnesota is the birthplace of.

• Water-skiing
• SPAM
• Bob Dylan
• Judy Garland
• Target Stores
• Prince

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We are home to

• The Mall of America
• The first professional wrestler to hold the
  office of Governor
• The headwaters of the Mississippi River
• The worlds largest ball of twine
• Yes, I that says twine

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MN Is Birth Mandate State

• Education is the lead agency for Part C
• Interagency agreements with MN Depts. Of Health
  and Human services
• Free, Appropriate Public Education provided to
  young children from birth
• Local efforts driven by Interagency Early
  Intervention Committees (IEICs)

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MNs Continuous Improvement Process

• 2000 Completion of Self Assessment
  Identification of 12 Priority Areas
• 2001 Planning year for Areas 1-5
• 2002 Implementation of Areas 1-5 Planning
  year for Areas 6-8
• 2003 Implementation for Areas 1-8 Planning year
  for Areas 9-12

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Identified Priority Areas

• Workforce
• Diversity
• Child Find
• Mental Health
• Service Coordination
• Educational Results
• Inclusion

• Assistive Technology
• Transitions
• Accountability and Compliance
• Family Involvement
• Geographic Disparities

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Continuous Improvement Monitoring Process Self
Review (MnCIMPSR)

• Alternative to traditional compliance monitoring
• 80 of all districts participate
• Uses baseline data and tracks improvement in key
  areas
• Graduation/dropout rates
• Suspension/expulsion
• Standardized test scores Alternate Assessments
• Least Restrictive Environments

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MnCIMP SR Process

• Planning Phase
• Initial program evaluation
• Compliance self-review
• Planning report submitted to MDE
• Implementation
• Data analysis
• Impact of initiated improvement strategies
• Report submitted to MDE

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MnCIMP SR Process

• Verification Visit by MDE monitor and trained
  peer monitors
• Report of visit generated by MDE and provided to
  district leadership and staff
• Children served through Part C and 619 were
  planfully included in verification visit
  activities.

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Questions Posed by OSEP

• Is Minnesota identifying all eligible infants
  Birth to Age 1?
• Do the identified infants toddlers reflect the
  demographics of the local area ?
• How effective are primary referral sources ?

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And More Questions..

• Do primary referral sources differ by age (lt1, 2,
  3) ?
• Are IEICs and their member agencies effectively
  identifying young children and their families?
• Is there variability from one part of the state
  to another?

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And Finally.

• The APR
• Minnesotas data SNAFU
• Age on December 1 rather than September 1
• OSEP Verification Visit

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ECSE
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QBQ The Questions Behind the Question

• Whos to blame?
• Why are we so disorganized/dysfunctional?
• Why wont our administration fiscally support a
  better data system?
• What can I do?

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MNs Existing Data System

• MARSS System
• Minnesota Automated Reporting Student System
• Unique identifier assigned at time of enrollment
• Initial evaluation
• Determination of eligibility

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Key Data Elements in MARSS

• District
• Race/Ethnicity
• Instructional Settings
• Gender
• Economic Indicator
• Mobility Indicator

• Home Primary Language
• Primary Disability
• Status End Codes
• Hours of Service (membership)

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Missing Data Elements

• Services by individual child
• Child and Family Outcomes
• Primary and Secondary Referral Sources

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Part C Enhanced Data Collection

• Added to existing rogue website
• Set-up cost absorbed by existing State
  Improvement Grant
• Data analysis done by staff from Department of
  Education
• Mandatory participation by districts

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Indicators
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Areas of Quality

• Child Find/Determining Eligibility
• Functional Child Goals or Outcomes
• Instructional Settings/Inclusion
• Comprehensiveness Intensity of Service
• Routines-based, Transdisciplinary Intervention
• Measuring Child Progress
• Family Outcome Measures

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ECSE Quality Indicators

• Child Find/Determining Eligibility
• Instructional Settings/Inclusion
• Comprehensiveness Intensity of Service
• Measuring Child Progress
• Family Outcome Measures

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Child Find Indicators

• Percent of general population lt1
• Percent of general population 0 through 2
• Percent of general population 0 through 4
• Proportion of identified children from a
  racial/ethnic group compared to the racial/ethnic
  makeup of the general population

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Additional Child Find Indicators

• Use of a variety of disability criteria
• Proportion of kindergarten enrollment initially
  determined eligible and the primary disabilities
  of those children.
• Proportion of referrals made by specific primary
  and secondary sources

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Child Progress

• What percent of children served under age 3
  demonstrates improved and sustained functional
  abilities?
• Cognitive development
• physical development, including vision and
  hearing
• communication development
• social or emotional development and
• adaptive development.

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Child Outcomes

• Young children with disabilities entering
  kindergarten demonstrate increased levels of
  proficiency in the areas
• Physical well-being and motor development
• Social and Emotional Development
• Approaches to learning
• Language Development
• Cognition
• Creativity and the Arts

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Comprehensiveness Intensity

• Local areas comprehensively identify needs and
  provide a full array of early intervention
  services.
• A range of intensity is evident within each
  districts ECSE program
• By age?
• By Primary Disability?

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Natural Environments/LRE

• Proportion of infants/toddlers served in natural
  environments
• At home
• In programs designed for children without
  disabilities
• Proportion of children age 3 through 5 served in
  Early Childhood Settings or at Home

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Family Participation

• Supports, services and resources provided to
  each family increase the familys capacity to
  enhance the development of their child.

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Sometimes the Plants and Stars Align..
November, 2004
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Putting Data to Work

• Easy access
• Ease of use
• Meaningful comparisons
• State
• Region
• Strata
• To the individual district as trends over time
• Accuracy

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2003-2004 ECSE District Profile

• Based on Excel 2000
• Utilized Lookup functions
• Displayed data on those indicators for which
  accurate data was available
• Annually updateable
• Will live on MDE website on the Continuous
  Improvement landing page

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District Profile In Action