California Stakeholder Group

State Performance and Personnel Development Plan Stakeholders

January 29-30, 2007Sacramento, California

Radisson Hotel

Welcome

California Department of Education

Special Education Division

Mary Hudler, Director Special Education

Original State Improvement Grant (SIG)

Overall Purpose• Improve outcomes for students with

disabilities• Ensure adequate supply of qualified

personnel with content knowledge and skills

• Established this group – Partnership Committee on Special Education

(PCSE)

How Did We Get Here?

• What is our History?• What has changed?• Where are we now?• How was I selected?• What is my role as a stakeholder?• What is our continued work now and in the

future?• How will that happen?

History: PlanningSIG assisted CDE

• Statewide needs assessment• Applied & received federal

State Improvement Grant (SIG)– Established Partnership

Committee for Special Education (PCSE) (1x yr)

– Established PCSE Evaluation subcommittee (2x yr)

– TA contractors (4x yr)• Provided recommendations on

grant priorities/core messages• Implemented improvement

activities • Evaluated activities

CDE • Conducted general supervision

activities. • Identified and corrected

noncompliance (FAPE in the LRE)

• Conducted planning activities with a variety of planning participants & processes

• Used data: Key Performance Indicators (KPIs, monitoring, complaints, Due process, CASEMIS, Other)

• Conducted annual and periodic processes to review outcomes for accomplishments, effectiveness, used outside evaluators

History: Improvement Activities

SIG provided• Customized training and

technical assistance to LEAs, parent groups, colleges, universities

• Based on research and tied to SIG core messages

• School site team focus• Statewide Leadership

Institute

CDE provided • Monitoring activities to

address emergent needs • Corrective actions to be

targeted based on data• Utilized consultants &

contractors for technical assistance

• Provided Special Education Division (SED) messages, guidance, publications, web casts and other web content, special short term research

What has Changed?Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) 2004 required…

• State Educational Agency (SEA) to provide measures and reports on specific outcomes to the United States Department of Education (USDOE)

• Established the State Performance Plan (SPP)– Describes how the state will meet these new requirements– Six year plan

• Established the Annual Performance Report– Describes how the state met those outcomes described in the SPP

• All state level planning in special education– Tied to the SPP– State Personnel Development Grant (SPDG) to IDEA and No

Child Left Behind (NCLB)

Please Note

• Stakeholder roles and responsibilities remain significant

• Our work outcomes remain the same– Improve outcomes for students with

disabilities – Ensure qualified staff – Continue our required general

supervision activities as a state • Our work planning strategies are different

Where are we now?

As a state we are… • Establishing a unified planning and improvement process• Shifting the activities of several diverse planning groups

that addressed a variety of state needs…– Personnel Development– Accountability– Monitoring

• Reconstituting the scope and function of the PCSE– Continue our work with required partners – Reduce numbers of meetings

How was I selected?What is my role as a stakeholder?

Selection• Leadership, knowledge• Meet new SPDG grant

requirements• Diversity of voices

– Parents, teachers, administrators, professors, state staff, contracted staff, students

Role & Responsibilities• Represent your organization

• Attend bi-annual meetings• Understand the SPP/APR• Gain information & provide it

to others in your organization• Provide input and

recommendations on specific indicators, SPDG activities

What is our work now? January 2007 Meeting OutcomesThrough presentations, work groups and conversations…• Learn about the SPP and APR• Provide your comments, ask questions, reflect on the

SPP/APR submission of February 1, 2007• Have opportunity to clearly understand each of the

SPP/APR Indicators and state improvement activities including data

• Have opportunity to learn from the unified stakeholder group their comments and input

• Begin new process as a unified stakeholder group• Inform the grants writers work in writing the new SPDG

(May 2007)• Inform our work for the Spring 2007 meeting

What is our work in the future?Spring 2007 OutcomesThrough presentations, work groups and conversations…• Continue to learn about the SPP and PR• Have opportunity to clearly understand each of the

SPP/APR Indicators and state improvement activities• Begin examination of new data • Provide your comments, ask questions, reflect on the

future SPP/APR submission of February 1, 2008• Continue our new process as a unified planning

stakeholder group about improvement activities• Learn about the new SPDG • Inform our work for the Fall 2008 meeting

How will that happen?

Ideas for now include…• Receive written and electronic information for

the Spring meeting from CalSTAT – Information and outcome of the January meeting– Grant update– SPP/APR updates– Other information that impacts improvement activities

and outcomes for our students– Online input– CDE website– CalSTAT website– Other