SPDG Program Overview Jennifer Coffey, October 2009

1. SPDG Program Overview • Jennifer Coffey, October 2009

2. Welcome: New SPDG cohort FY2009 • Arkansas • Colorado • Indiana • Tennessee

3. Monthly Webinars/Evaluators’ calls • Technology Initiative • Low Incidence Affinity Group • Evaluators • Implementation and Scaling Up • Continuation reporting - program measures • Roles and responsibilities • Updates to personnel • Planning groups

4. Monthly Webinars: recent topics (http://www.signetwork.org/notes.html) • National RTI Center Update and SPDG Continuation and Final Reporting • Using Technology for Professional Development, Technical Assistance, and Strategic Communication • Scaling Up Capacity: Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities in Context • National RTI Center: Technical Assistance Documentation and Implementation

5. Webinar topics, cont • Building Unified Education Systems Using IDEA Partnership Tools and Processes • Creating Customized Evaluation Reports for Stakeholders • Ohio’s Collaborative Initiatives to Improve Teaching of Students with Disabilities • Reaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families and Other Hard to Reach Audiences Through Technology and Partnerships/Collaborating with Parent Programs

6. Technology Talk • Using online surveys • Virtual environments • Video conferencing • Holding Webinars

7. Evaluators’ calls • Measuring Teacher Retention • Massachusetts SPDG Family Engagement Initiative • Evaluation of Alabama and Georgia’s Math Initiative

8. Low-incidence affinity group • Innovative approaches related to recruiting and preparing LI practitioners • Collaboration of State special education, state certification departments, and IHEs to provide distance based course work

9. Implementation and Scaling Up • Implementation Drivers and Scale Up presentations during SIG Day • Follow-up calls to SIG Day • Requests to have a way to collaborate with other SPDGs thinking-through implementation challenges • Round table? • Use of technology? • State Readiness Community of Practice

10. Continuation reporting - program measures • Follow the directions that come with the continuation package • Every project must report on all Program measures • Use the descriptive information section • Work with your Project Officer as you are putting the report together, if you have any questions

11. Roles and Responsibilities • Roles • SIGnetwork Coordinator • OSEP Program Lead • OSEP Project Evaluator Lead • OSEP Project Officers • Grants management responsibilities • Request approval for change in key personnel • Send the new staff’s resume to your project officer • Request approval for significant changes in your budget • Request approval for changes in the scope of your project

12. Roles and responsibilities, cont. • And please… • Let Audrey and your Project Officer know when contact information changes • Request that new staff be added to the appropriate listserv • Let your Project Officer know how often you would like to meet with them • Try to involve your evaluator in SPDG program activities

13. Planning Groups • Technology Focus Workgroup • SIG Day • Regional Meetings • Facilitation

14. Regional Meeting Planning Group SPDG Directors/Coordinators • Toyah Robey, Kentucky SPDG Director • Pam Rosen, Maine SPDG Director • Jon Dyson, Rhode Island SPDG Director • Steve Goodman, Michigan SPDG Co-Director • Julia Causey, Georgia SPDG Director Evaluators • Amy Erickson, Evaluator, Missouri SPDG • Hayley Cavino, Evaluator, New York SPDG Other • Jennifer Doolittle and Pat Gonzalez, OSEP • Jeanna Mullins, MSRRC • Audrey Desjarlais, SIGnetwork

15. Thanks to Coaching Facilitators! Washington, DC • Susan Davis • Tom Manthey • Margie McGlinchey • Toyah Robey • Jeanna Mullins Kansas City, MO • Howie Knoff • Julia LePage • John Green • Kerry Haag