DB Summit 2018 Opening Session

1. DB Summit 2018 Opening Session Sam Morgan Linda McDowell Peggy Malloy nationaldb.org The contents of this presentation were developed under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education #H326T130013. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Teaching Research Institute, nor the US Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. Project Officer, Jo Ann McCann.

2. Acknowledgements Welcome to new project directors/coordinators Announcements of retirements Ideas for additional meeting times and spaces during next few days

3. NCDB Plans for the Future • In response to National Needs Assessment and TA experience over past few years • Plans based on state project reporting • Internal assets and TA delivery strengths and external supports • TA strategies in need of development and need for facilitation and support of network collaboration

4. NCDB Plans to Showcase State Projects • Showcase Assets • In-state relationships and partnerships • Project staff expertise • Project resources and other resources in state • Showcase TA Delivery Strengths • Providing on-site consultation • Planning and conducting training events • Assessing child-specific needs and outcomes • Identifying child-specific effective practices • Building relationships with teams • Showcase External Supports • Cross-state collaboration • Collaboration with national center(s)

5. NCDB Plans to Address Needs • TA Strategies in need of development • Facilitating peer-to-peer learning / coaching skills • Assessing systems needs and determining solutions • Cultivating Communities of Practice • Project Evaluation • TA network partnership needs • Cross state shared funding mechanism • Focused time with new project directors/coordinators

6. NCDB Plans to Strengthen the TA Network • Support state projects through national collaboration • Offering opportunities for PD for state projects; updates on research per deaf-blindness • Continuation of library/information services • Coordination of face-to-face time to work on common TA activities • Facilitation of state project collaboration around topic areas (considering regional cadres) • Highlighting what states are doing, leading to collaborative opportunities on products and in TA activities • Focus on culturally/linguistically relevant TA strategies and materials

7. Clarifying NCDB’s Role in DB TA • NCDB staffing and process for Product Development and Information Management and Dissemination (Linda McDowell) • Peggy Malloy, Robbin Bull, Shelby Morgan, Matthew Hofstetter, Jeff Denton (.5) • NCDB staffing and process for TA per Initiatives (Sam Morgan) • Megan Cote, Kristi Probst, Mike Fagbemi, Ellen Condon (.4), Julie Durando (.4)

8. Information Services Data Sources State project and family needs assessments Feedback on website Internal evaluation

9. Information Services – Needs Practice-based information Less overwhelming website Spanish-language information

10. What We Plan to Do • Continue to cover 3 content areas on website: • Technical assistance • Deaf-blindness • Family support • Increase coordination with other organizations

11. Streamlined Library • Focus on providing resources state projects need for work with service providers and families • Practice-based resources • Assessment for instructional planning • Instructional practices • Curriculum across a range of abilities

12. What We Plan to Do (cont.) Other parts of the website Keep organization around initiatives No public groups Private groups with modifications Private group for state projects Strengthen information related to family support

13. Spanish-Language Materials OHOA Modules Kansas Slide Presentations The Sooner the Better

14. Products for TA EI&R Self-Assessment Guide TA Reference Guide The Sooner The Better Working Together for Families OHOA Modules Intervener Services Recommendations Child Count Report Accessing the Dream Families Matter Stories Literacy Website

15. Overview of TA Structure TA on TA • Child specific • Systems TA Structure for the Initiatives • More commonality, but differences according to stage • Increased focus on systems • Products – Stories of success, TA tools, content to support state TA

16. What May Be Different? • More depth in child-specific strategies • Coaching, consultation, etc. • A focus on systems TA • TA agreements for intensive TA • Based on a readiness model • Advisory structures • TA as a collaborative endeavor • Increased focus on Community of Practice

17. TA on TA – Child Specific Universal Guide, shared resources state and national Targeted Peer-to-peer - topical, group problem solving Sharing of successful models and practices Consultation Intensive Individualized support to states

18. Systems TA • Mostly within initiatives - anchored • General support • Decision making • Strategy • Collaborative in nature • Why? • Sustainability • Quality • Equity

19. Systems TA - General Universal Guide - successive iterations Targeted Peer to peer Sharing successful models of change Intensive Individualized support to states - planning and implementation Onsite work with states Strategic planning with the network

20. Systems TA - Initiatives • Universal - Initiative information and products • Targeted • Peer to Peer - mentoring, sharing success • Communities of Practice • Support for and • National - TDB • Coproduction of tools and materials • Intensive • Systems development work with states

21. Evaluation • Guidance in TA guides • Child specific TA • TA is focused on program and adult change - knowledge and skill • Systems • Developing measures for outputs and outcomes - systems work output based in some instances (policies, processes, programs) • Common measures • Performance measures across states - GPRA and project performance measures • Collaborations - performance, common outcomes

22. Culturally Responsive TA • Spanish translation now • Guidelines for culturally responsive TA • Child-specific TA • Working with families • Collecting high-quality resources

23. NCDB National Partnership Plans • Intent • Affect systems (state agency) change • Child find • Professional development for qualified personnel • Family support and training • Match to national centers/organizations in audience and activity • Implementation • Inform state projects of national connections that can benefit state-level systems change peri • Per state project TA plans, either hand off connection or work side by side

24. National Partnerships for Early Identification and Intervention Improve Identification/Referral • American Academy of Pediatrics • EHDI State Champions • Hands and Voices (providing parent-to-parent support) • ECTA Center Develop recommended instructional practice training materials for dissemination and adoption • CEC-DEC • National Association for Education of Young Children (NAEYC) • Early Childhood Personnel Center

25. National Partnerships for Family Engagement Family Engagement Goals Connect families to in state and across state supports, and support coordination Find additional resources for family training and TA for families National Partners providing supports/training to DB families National Community of Practice (University of Missouri, Kansas City) Center for Parent Information and Resources and Regional PTACS/PTIs NFADB, CHARGE Syndrome Foundation, Usher Coalition

26. National Partnerships for Qualified Personnel Sustainable systems of training and ongoing professional development • Personnel preparation program faculty • National Intervener Association (NIA), PAR2A Center, National Resource Center for Paraprofessionals • TAESE, OCALI • Association of College Educators Deaf/Hard of Hearing (ACE-DHH), AERBVI, CEC-DVIDB, CEC-DCDD, CEC TED Para-professional SIG Education of systems for adoption of role of trained interveners and teachers of DB • National Centers of Excellence • National Association of State Directors of Special Education • CEC-CASE • State Consultants for the Blind / DHH

27. National Partnerships for Assessment, Instruction, Curriculum Collaborate with personnel preparation program faculty to address the need among state projects for • Updated information • Professional development for themselves • New materials to help them in their technical assistance - summarizing best practices in assessment, instructional planning, and curriculum for children of all abilities who are DB

28. National Partnerships for Transition Systems change • The National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services • WINTAC • NTACT • Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities • AADB • DeafBlind Citizens in Action • ODEP Capacity building of service providers • HKNC • Described and Media Caption Program (info from National Association of the Deaf) • Able Ops

29. National Partnerships for NCDB’s Information Services • Continuing in presentation of national need (national child count) • Partnerships for deaf-blind content information management • Perkins, Texas School for the Blind, HKNC, APH • Partnerships in implementing TA best practices • CEEDAR Center, IRIS Center

30. Summit General housekeeping Group App Notetaking Agenda/lunch Some Guidance Electronic v. Paper for state collaborations Staying open to new partners – participation in groups Participating multiple times in one group

31. Summit (cont) Systems conversations Brainstorming and open sharing of experiences and successes Collaboration conversations Moving quickly from sharing to shared work QUESTIONS?