The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act:

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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
OSEP TA
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OSEP Technical Assistance and Outreach

• Use of Funds Guidance
• Consistent with ARRA reform goals
• Increase teacher effectiveness
• Adopting rigorous college career ready
  standards high quality assessments
• Establishing data systems using data for
  improvement
• Turning around lowest performing schools
• Broader context of school reform 57 SWD ?80
  general education
• Initiatives that are evidence-based data driven
• Funding cliff Sustaining reform

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OSEP Technical Assistance and Outreach

• Design Considerations for effective P.D.
• Delivered consistent with staff development
  standards such as those of the National Staff
  Development Council
• Based upon research and evidence
• Focused on classroom practices that will drive
  student achievement
• Provided in enough depth to positively affect
  teacher performance
• Inclusive of follow-up activities to ensure the
  practice is implemented consistent with the
  training

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OSEP Technical Assistance and Outreach

• Design Considerations for effective P.D.
• Fidelity Correct amount of treatment
• Group sizes
• Ages or grades of students
• Characteristics of students
• Length of sessions
• Frequency of sessions
• Location of sessions
• Qualifications or training of the instructor

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OSEP Technical Assistance and Outreach

• Design Considerations for effective P.D.
• Sustainability
• Theory
• Discussion
• Demonstration
• Practice
• Feedback
• Coaching

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OSEP Technical Assistance and Outreach

• Coordinated Funding
• IDEA
• CEIS
• Title I
• SFSF
• State Local
• High-need districts
• Turning around low performing schools
• Tier III interventions

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OSEP Technical Assistance and Outreach

• Examples Coordinated Funds Tier III
• RTI
• Schoolwide behavior interventions
• Adolescent Literacy
• Math
• Progress Monitoring
• Early Childhood Social Emotional Development
• Technology in instruction
• Induction/Mentoring
• UDL

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OSEP Technical Assistance and Outreach

• Examples IDEA Specific
• Secondary Transition
• Early Childhood Data Systems
• Web-Based IEP
• Assistive Technology

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OSEP Technical Assistance and Outreach

• Additional Technical Assistance
• On-Line Professional Development Training Library
• Seminars on LEA implementation

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On-line Professional Development Library
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Purpose

• To provide access to the vast array of
  professional development resources developed by
  states, technical assistance centers and national
  organizations
• To increase awareness of and access to
  trustworthy sources of professional development
  material
• To support local schools that may not have direct
  access to technical assistance in choosing
  quality professional development resources

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What Resources Will Be Included in the On-line
Library

• On-line Modules
• Streaming Video
• Toolkits

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What Descriptors Will Be Provided to Enable a
Search

• Draft Listing still in development
• Title
• Topic
• Description
• Source/Author(s)
• Date of Production
• Section 508 compliant
• Expected Duration ( if applicable for modules and
  video)
• Access Free to the public For fee Members
  only (Initially, only free materials will be
  cataloged)
• Content Assessments included Y/N
• Credit or certificate available, with procedures
  for requesting

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Sample Landing Page

• View resources Listing of topics
• Search for a resource Enter search criteria
• Submit a resource Submit a resource from a
  state, TA center or national organization for
  consideration
• Featured resources A revolving collection of
  high quality resources on an array of topics are
  flagged and displayed on the landing page

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More Information

• www.ed.gov and www.recovery.gov
• FAQs, Hot Topics, etc
• Preliminary information about each States IDEA
  allocation http//www.ed.gov/about/overview/budge
  t/Statetables/recovery.html
• Preliminary estimates of Title I, Part A recovery
  allocations to each State and LEA are available
  at http//www.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/news.h
  tmlARRA
• SFSF Questions State.fiscal.fund_at_ed.gov
• IDEA Questions IDEArecoverycomments_at_ed.gov
• Title I Questions oese_at_ed.gov
• Inspector General Questions rich.rasa_at_ed.gov
• Independent Living and Vocational Rehabilitation
  Questions RSARecoverActComments_at_ed.gov