SPDG Directors’ Webinar

1. SPDG Directors’Webinar Dial-in: 1-888-447-7153 Participant Code: 899594 • Performance Measures 3 & 4: • On-going Technical Assistance & • Teacher Recruitment Presented by Jennifer Coffey December 2011

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3. Webinar Ground Rules • Mute your phones: • To Mute or Un-MutePress *6 • Please do not put your phones on ‘Hold’ • For webinar technical difficulties: • Send email to adesjarl@uoregon.edu • Q & A Process (audio/chat): • Ask questions in two ways: • Audio/Voice • Type your question in the Chat Pod • Archive Recording, PPT, & Materials • To be posted to; http://signetwork.org/events/108

4. SPDG National Meeting • March 6 & 7, 2012, • Washington, DC • Registration Opens this Week! • Draft Agenda Available • SIGMarketPlace Presentation Proposals

5. SPDG National MeetingMarch 5, 5:30p– Group MEET UP

6. Next Directors’Webinar January 11, 2012Time: 3:00-4:30pm ET Adult Learning Principles Carol Trivette, Ph.D.Orelena Hawks Puckett Institute

7. PLCs News & Events • Merged: NCRTI – RTI CoP Calls & SPDG RtI/Multi-Tiered Models of Intervention PLC • Technology PLC, Dec. 2, 2-3pm ET • Topic: Dissemination Strategies: What Works For Whom • Low Incidence PLC, Jan. 24, 3-4p ET • Topic: Grade-level, Standard-Aligned Instruction for Students with Complex Support Needs

8. New Resources Posted • Performance Reports Page: • Maine’s Final Report (2006-2011) • http://signetwork.org/content_pages/139 • 2) Grant Management Page: • OSEP Key Resources for Grant Management (10/2011 • http://signetwork.org/content_pages/139

9. The Revised SPDG Program Measures: An Overview Jennifer Coffey, Ph.D. SPDG Program Lead December 1, 2011

10. Capturing Performance • Performance Measurement 1: Projects use evidence-based professional development practices to support the attainment of identified competencies. • Performance Measurement 2: Participants in SPDG professional development demonstrate improvement in implementation of SPDG-supported practices over time.

11. Performance Measurement 3: Projects use SPDG professional development funds to provide follow-up activities designed to sustain the use of SPDG-supported practices. (Efficiency Measure) Performance Measurement 4: Highly qualified special education teachers that have participated in SPDG supported special education teacher retention activities remain as special education teachers two years after their initial participation in these activities.

12. Continuation Reporting • 2007 grantees will not be using the new program measures: • Everyone else will have 1 year for practice • Grantees will use the revised measures this year for their APR • This continuation report will be a pilot • OSEP will learn from this round of reports and make changes as appropriate

13. Performance Measurement 3: Projects use SPDG professional development funds to provide follow-up activities designed to sustain the use of SPDG-supported practices. (Efficiency Measure

14. Operational definition of terms • Professional development funds = a minimum of 90% of the overall budget being used for activities from subsection "a" of the notice/Statute • Only following the initiatives from Program Measure 1 & 2 • Follow-up activities = the professional development assistance provided following training. A list of follow-up activities that are correlated with sustainability will be provided.

15. Ongoing TA features: • Coaching/mentoring* • Implementation fidelity measurement & other types of observation* • Mini-workshops* • Determining needs through data and providing guidance or tools to meet those needs* • Maintaining data systems* • Peer sharing*

16. Ongoing TA cont. • Model demonstration site activities • Creating and disseminating enduring documents (procedural manuals)* • Communities of Practice • TA Networks (support from internal state/local TA&D systems • Regional PD partnerships* * = Evidence-based

17. Background • Research has demonstrated that “train and hope” does not work. Instead, ongoing support is needed for those who attend training. • Despite this evidence, most professional development is one-time only, which is inefficient and largely a waste of money.

18. The purpose of the revised measure • To demonstrate that the SPDG projects are using their money efficiently by providing the appropriate ongoing TA services that may lead to sustained use of the SPDG-supported practices.

19. Methodology • For each initiative, grantee should report cost of activities designed to sustain learning of scientific or evidence-based instructional practices, divided by the total cost of all professional development activities carried out for the initiative.

20. Equation Cost of ongoing TA Cost of all PD activities for an initiative

21. Methodology cont. • Only need to report on those initiatives reporting on for Measures 1 & 2 • Projects will set their own targets • You will have a range within which you will be considered to have met your target • ED will look at the data you provide this year to determine if we can set targets in the future

22. Setting targets • Consider what is happening each year of your project • Are you providing training for an entire year before you begin providing coaching? • In the final year of your project are you no longer providing training and only providing follow-up support? • You will set your target with the help of your Project Officer (and hopefully your evaluator)

23. Optimally • Your initiative would help build local coaching capacity • Projects would match their training with (a) coaching, (b) performance feedback, and (c) student outcomes

24. If you had the option… • Would you like to report on your initiative’s student outcomes • Instead of what you are spending on technical assistance? • If enough projects are interested we might be able to have the 2 options for this measure.

25. Questions • What guidance or assistance do you need for measure 3? • Any challenges you foresee? • Any strategies or forms that you use that might be helpful to the other projects?

26. Performance Measurement 4: Highly qualified special education teachers that have participated in SPDG supported special education teacher retention activities remain as special education teachers two years after their initial participation in these activities.

27. Methodology • Divide the number of teachers who remain in a teaching position by all teachers who received SPDG assistance.

28. Equation • # of personnel retained for at least two years following participation in a SPDG teacher retention activity # of personnel participating in a SPDG activity designed to retain highly qualified special education teachers

29. Note • This is only for projects that have teacher retention as an objective. • Please check with your Project Officer if you are not sure.

30. Only inservice • Initial participation is defined as beginning at the time someone receives funding or services from the SPDG grant.

31. Considerations • If the SPDG State does not have a tracking system for highly qualified special education teachers they will need to put an agreement in place with the individual receiving funds or services • This agreement will require information from that individual for the life of the grant

32. Questions?

33. Next Steps • Single document with all measures & methodology • Worksheet for Measure 1 and rubric with examples • Implementation fidelity presentation at the SPDG National meeting • Carol Trivette presentation on adult learning principles in training and coaching (January Directors’ call)

34. Program Measures Webpage • Has relevant presentations, tools, links, etc: http://www.signetwork.org/content_pages/205 • There is a tab for it on the top of the SIGnetwork homepage