Online

Iowa: Reaching Rural Families, Districts, and Schools; Michigan: Structuring SPDGs to Increase Sustainability

• National Center on Intensive Intervention – Team Tool

Distance learning supports for Professional Dev and Math interventions

Sydnee Seager, MTSS Project Mgr at the Utah State Board of Ed, will discuss how Utah is providing support and professional development to LEAs with a focus on ensuring equity for all learners through distance learning.

The School Mental Health Professional Development and Coaching System in Kansas; and Stepping Up Implementations in NC

The 2020 SPDG Program Area Meeting  (Tuesday, July 21st from 2:30-4:00 ET) is being held virtually this year.

We will meet to consider how your SPDG can prepare for the Fall.

Virtual Data Collection

Collecting fidelity, progress monitoring, and outcomes data just got harder than ever. Fortunately, we have knowledgeable people to share strategies and innovative ideas that will help SPDG projects navigate the coming school year.

Leslie Fox, PhD, of the Monitoring and State Improvement Planning Office in OSEP will share considerations for how to collect data that could benefit SPDG projects and State Systemic Improvement Plans.

What does true access for children with disabilities look like? Successes at James Russel Lowell Elementary in Indianapolis

Brooke Harris Garad, Research Scholar at the Center on Education and Lifelong Learning (CELL) at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community (IIDC) at Indiana University-Bloomington.

W. Patrick Lumbley (Pat), Proud Principal of James Russell Lowell School 51 in Indianapolis (IN).

PD in Colorado and Latest Results from SPDG Government Performance Results Act (GPRA)

In “Meeting the Needs of your PD Partners,” Kristen Brown, Project Director for the Colorado SPDG, shares how Colorado is determining (a) the challenges of professional development (PD) participants, (b) how PD providers can meet those challenges, and © how to share PD offerings in a way that is most likely to be useful to educators and families.

Designing Professional Development in a Remote Learning Environment

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Collecting Fidelity Data Virtually in New Hampshire

Amy Aiello, NH SPDG, discusses Tracking Fidelity Data during Covid 19 using New Hampshire’s iShare: Improving Social/Emotional Outcomes for Children Birth to Age 5.

Shauna Harps & Brad Keller, GPRA evaluators, describe how SPDG projects can improve their program measure submissions.

Building a Collaborative Culture Focused on Total School Improvement through the MTSS Framework

Burns Middle School has exceeded state growth standards for consecutive years and is designated as a Solution Tree Model PLC School. This presentation will address the school’s work in building a learning centered, results driven, collaborative culture within the MTSS framework. We will discuss collaboration in addition to our work with core and tiered academics, behavior, and social emotional learning.