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The goal of Office of Special Education Program's (OSEP) funding program is to assist state education agencies and their partners to reform early intervention, educational, and transitional services systems to improve results for children with disabilities. To achieve this goal, the State Personnel Development Grants (SPDGs) may be used to improve systems of professional development, technical assistance and/or dissemination of knowledge about best practices.
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Save the dates
The dates for the 2020 SPDG National Meeting have been set as October 14-15, 2020. This meeting is a great opportunity to network face-to-face with SPDG colleagues, share tools, and talk with project officers. Please consider reserving these dates for attending this meeting.
New for this year, the 2020 SPDG National Meeting will span 2 full days.
Location: FHI360. 1825 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20009
July 20-22, 2020
Please save the date and plan to attend the OSEP Project Directors’ Conference: July 20-22, 2020, Crystal Gateway Marriot, Arlington, VA
New Recorded Webinars!
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Using Technology for Training: Integrating High Quality Modules into Your Learning Progression: http://www.signetwork.org/content_pages/356-2019-december-directors-webinar-resources
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Shauna Harps and Brad Keller describe best practices in writing and describing your measures in What You Can Do to Improve Your Program Measure Submission: http://coe-signet.uoregon.edu/media/Recordings/2019/11-01-2019_ImprovingMeasureSubmissions.mp4
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Dr. Carol Trivette shares learning strategies to better engage and motivate adults with Reflections on How to Enhance: Learning: HPL II http://www.signetwork.org/event_calendar/events/1526
- Dr. Tanya B. Ihlo describes Differentiating Supports for a Wide Range of Systems & Instructional Coaches. She shares how coaches can match strategies to educator need and evaluate the impact of the strategy: http://coe-signet.uoregon.edu/media/Recordings/2019/09-09-2019_Coaching_CoP.mp4
Alabama SPDG Documentary Film
Beautiful Rainbow is a program of Gadsden City Schools, Gadsden, Alabama, supported by the Alabama State Personnel Development Grant. The program uses the operation of a farm-to-table café and a garden to teach students with significant disabilities and autism spectrum disorder the skills they need to work independently in the community. Students learn organic gardening, sophisticated food preparation and customer relations. This program has had a high level of success, with most graduates achieving gainful employment. A documentary film about the program was recently selected for viewing at five film festivals.
Kacie Olson is an implementation coach for the Kansas Learning Network which is part of the Kansas State Department of Education's Technical Assistance System Network. In her role she supports both district and building leaders statewide in developing and implementing school/district plans of improvement. This webinar recording provides tools and frameworks that can help your coaches to support effective data use for problem solving and improved impact.
OSEP and NASDSE have joined together to help states think through their professional development system as they consider applying for the 2020 State Personnel Development Grants Program (SPDG). Each month, an expert presenter from OSEP, an OSEP funded technical assistance center, or a current OSEP funded SPDG grant are sharing their insights on an important aspect creating an effective professional development system.
Learn more about how you can use data to dertmine coaching strategies and frequency from this report on the external evaluation of the impact of the Iowa SPDG grant on teacher outcomes.
This document provides an updated list of all OSEP-Funded Centers.
This spreadsheet includes SPDG initiative names, the populations they serve, the desired outcomes, whether the work is aligned with SSIP efforts, and the name of the PTI or CPRC the SPDG is contracting/subgranting with. If you have ideas regarding information that should be included in this At-a-Glance in the future or need to modify your information, please contact Jennfier Coffey (Jennifer.Coffey@ed.gov).
Integrating SPDG work with SSIP
PBIS Center. Technical Guide for Alignment of Initiatives, Programs and Practices in School Districts.
The Systems Alignment Learning Collaborative: Virtual Learning Event In particular, Kansas describes how their SSIP evaluation is derived from the SPDG evaluation principles.
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