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BLURRING THE LINES

General Education First!

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Background

Consultant Leadership Series• Purpose:

– Train Teacher Consultants to effectively work in classrooms

• Cognitive Coaching• Data Collection and Analysis• Organization Skills• Common Core Curriculum• Communication Skills• Transition Skills• Tier I

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AGENDA• Special Education History, In Brief• Why Data?• 3WiN Data Portrait• MI School Data Portal• Data Director• Exploring Special Education Data• What This Data Means For Programming

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INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES EDUCATION ACT (IDEA)

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a law ensuring services to children with disabilities throughout the nation.

IDEA governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education and related services to more than 6.5 million eligible infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities.

Two Parts: Part B and Part C

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Why Data?

Special Education Then• Early 1970’s• FAPE• Individualized Education

Special Education Now• Inclusion Model• Data Driven• FAPE• Individualized Education

StudentProgress

AnalyzeData

Program from data

Teach

Assess

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Rigorous Expectations

•No Child Left Behind•AYP•School Improvement•Common Core •MMC•CIMS

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Rigorous Expectations For All Students

ExpectationsIdentification: SIDR, REED and RtI

Least Restrictive Environment• The extent possible

Progress in General Education• AYP• MEAP

Suspension/ExpulsionGraduation Rates/Drop Out Rates

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3WiN Data Portrait

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Use Template To Complete State And ISD Data

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Check Your Work

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Your LEA Portrait

• Review your district’s data

• Review Disability Data

• Review LRE Data

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Group ActivityReview District DisabilityData:1. What information did you find?

2. What might the district have control over?

3. What changes can the district make to improve outcomes?

4. What other data do you need to access to hypothesize?

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Least Restrictive Environment

Data• MEAP Scores• AYP• Graduation• Drop Out• CIMS

Implications

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Group ActivityReview District LRE Data:

1. What information did you find?

2. What might the district have control over?

3. What changes can the district make to improve outcomes?

4. Any other questions?

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State Performance Plan Indicators

Performance Indicators

• Graduation• Drop Out• Assessment• Suspension/Expulsion• Child Find• LRE

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BREAK

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Exploring the MI School Data Portal

Special Education Inquiries

Proficiency Inquiry

Disability Groups

www.mischooldata.org

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Group Activity

ExploringMI School

DataPortal

Review district disabilitydata:

• Does each disability group share the same trend?

• Should more attention be focused on certain disability groups?

• Which subgroups performed the best on this test? Worst?

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Exploring DataDirectorwww.datadirector.com/calhoun

Strand Analysis

Custom Reporting

Greater Disaggregation

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Group Activity

ExploringDataDirector

Review district disabilitydata:

• Which strand appears to cause SWD the most trouble?

• Are all disability types performing at the same level among the strands?

• Which disability types are struggling? Which are succeeding?

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IlluminateProgress Reports

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School Improvement Planning

MEAPMEAP-AccessMi-AccessCIMSSchool ImprovementIEPsStudent Outcomes

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DATA and Programming

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Share Ideas

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Where Do We Go From Here?