Instructional | KEDC Special Education Cooperative

Updates are in progress hope to reschedule for August.

The newly updated training by the State Task Group will be presented.  The focus is on tools and tips for effective progress monitoring as well as using data for team decision making.

This session will provide the updated step-by-step guide of the process for developing an Individual Education Program using the IEP Guidance Document produced by the Kentucky Department of Education. Teachers will be provided the knowledge and skills to design meaningful, individualized programming for students in special education. This session will emphasize the role of determining current baseline using student performance data, developing measurable, observable goals, determining evidence based SDI & SAS and using appropriate tools for monitoring progress on successful student outcomes.

Who can register for the training:

·        New Teachers

·        Service Providers

·        Administrators who need a detailed step-by-step training of how to develop IEP for students with disabilities. 

This session is intended for NEW teachers with little to no experience with alternate assessment. During this time participants will be introduced to the components of alternate assessment including process, calendar, Administration Guide Components, Participation Guidelines, Alternate Assessment Accountability Folder requirements, etc.  Following the training, participants will be prepared to take required qualifying quiz on KDE website.

Please bring your Alternate Assessment Administration Guide and a copy of the Alternate K-PREP Content Statements for each grade you teach.  The guide and alternate assessment standards can be found on KDE's website under Alternate Assessment.

Participants are encouraged to attend all three modules but it isn't required. Participants may instead choose the sessions that would be most beneficial to their job assignment. The fraction module would be helpful to both elementary and middle school teachers.

Objectives of the Series are:

• To build a teacher’s knowledge base around the building blocks of numeracy
• To provide strategies for teaching content and differentiating instruction
• To develop a deep conceptual understanding of the core components of numbers and operations
• To enhance professional growth within the school through coaching

The Conceptual Building Blocks of Mathematics Series includes:

• Addition/Subtraction:  September 20-21
• Multiplication/Division: October 18-19
• Fractions: November 16-17

Mental Health Workshop: Interconnecting Systems Framework (ISF): School-based Mental Health within a PBIS Framework

WHY DO WE WANT TO DO THIS?  “It is no secret that for many members of the education community being the de facto mental health system for children is not universally appealing. The task of bringing America’s children up to an academic level that will be competitive globally is daunting. Meeting children’s mental health needs is often viewed as off task behavior and the mission of some other agency. In the mental health community, professionals do not always accept the criticism that their interventions for children must be more related to the core mission of school, which is learning. The development and implementation of ISF has the potential of changing the attitudes and behavior of the professionals in these two systems by linking them into a complementary process that is broad in scope and utilizes the combined strengths of each.” ADVANCING EDUCATION EFFECTIVENESS: INTERCONNECTING SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH AND SCHOOL-WIDE POSITIVE BEHAVIOR SUPPORT EDITORS: SUSAN BARRETT, LUCILLE EBER & MARK WEIST

“Core features of the ISF align with concepts of Implementation Science, and PBIS as a Response to Intervention (RtI) application including a strong emphasis on: (1) effective teams that include community mental health providers, (2) data based decision making, (3) formal processes for the selection and implementation of evidence based practices (EBP), (4) early access through use of comprehensive screening, (5) rigorous progress-monitoring for both fidelity and effectiveness, and (6) ongoing coaching at both the systems and practices level.” ADVANCING EDUCATION EFFECTIVENESS: INTERCONNECTING SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH AND SCHOOL-WIDE POSITIVE BEHAVIOR SUPPORT EDITORS: SUSAN BARRETT, LUCILLE EBER & MARK WEIST

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? District/School Leadership Teams: (Principal, Assistant Principal, Counselor, Family Resource Center personnel, General Education Teacher, Special Education Teacher, Mental Health Provider, RtI Interventionist, etc.)  These participants are not required… each team will be different. *If your school is participating in the Trauma Informed Care Learning Collaborative, please send your team to this workshop.

WHAT WILL WE DO AT THE WORKSHOP? Exploration Stage:  Resource Mapping  will be conducted to identify existing resources and how best to utilize them. Participants will review a copy of the draft guide for ISF model from KDE.

Participants are encouraged to attend all three modules but it isn't required.  Participants may instead choose which sessions would be most beneficial to their job assignment. The fraction module would be helpful to both elementary and middle school teachers. 

Objectives of the Series are:

• To build a teacher’s knowledge base around the building blocks of numeracy
• To provide strategies for teaching content and differentiating instruction
• To develop a deep conceptual understanding of the core components of numbers and operations
• To enhance professional growth within the school through coaching

The Conceptual Building Blocks of Mathematics Series includes:

• Addition/Subtraction:  September 20-21
• Multiplication/Division:  October 18-19
• Fractions:  November 16-17

EnVISIONing the Future is a day set aside to bring students with blindness/visual impairments, their families, teachers, and service providers together to gain new learning experience, network, and learn from each other.   The day’s events will include hands-on learning activities and collaboration with representatives from various related organizations and agencies. Registration coming soon. For more information contact Pam Howard at pamela.howard@ksb.kyschools.us

Participants are encouraged to attend all three modules but it isn't required. Participants may instead choose the sessions that would be most beneficial to their job assignment. Geometry can be relevant to more than one level but is presented with an emphasis on middle school. High school teachers that teach students with math difficulties will find all three middle school modules would benefit their teaching. The elementary Fractions module would also be helpful to middle school teachers.

Objectives of the Series are:

• To build a teacher’s knowledge base around the building blocks of numeracy
• To provide strategies for teaching content and differentiating instruction
• To develop a deep conceptual understanding of the core components of numbers and operations
• To enhance professional growth within the school through coaching

The Conceptual Building Blocks of Mathematics Series includes:

• Ratio/Proportion:  January 17-18
• Algebraic Reasoning:  February 21-22
• Geometry:  March 21-22