Focus on the Possibilities

Patty Guard, Acting DirectorOffice of Special Education Programs

Our Goal

--is to ensure that young people finish high school with the tools to be productive citizens in all aspects of their lives—work, family, community and leisure activities

Focus on Systems Learning

We must... become adept at learning. We must become able not only to transform our institutions, in response to changing situations and requirements; we must invent and develop institutions and societies that are "learning systems," that is to say, systems capable of bringing about their own continuing transformation.- Donald A. Schon, Beyond the Stable State (1971) p. 30;

Education as a Learning System: What Will it Take?

Reflective practice at all system levels Data-based decision making Evidence-based programs and

practices - implemented with fidelity Program evaluation Sharing tacit knowledge though CoPs Multi-level feed-back loops

NCLB and IDEA Provide Tools for Learning

NCLB – AYP data disaggregated by subgroups School improvement plans Evidence-based practices

IDEA – State Performance Plans and Annual

Performance Reports Response to Intervention Evidence-based practices

Possibilities for School and District Level Learning

AYP disaggregated data

Student progress monitoring

Response to Intervention

Possibilities for SEA Level Learning State assessments under NCLB

Disaggregated AYP data by district, school and subgroup

HQT data SPP/APRs

Progress on indicator reaching targets

Evaluation of improvement strategies

GSEGs

Possibilities for Federal Level Learning

NCLB AYP data for disability subgroup

SPP/APR analysesMSIP determinationsTA&D Projects’ indicator

analyses TA&D Projects

Communities of Practice

State Capacity Building For Implementation and Scaling-up

OSEP/OESE collaboration designed for learning at all levels

Focus on implementation and scale-up Across general and special education Will work intensively with six states and

relevant TA Projects Regional Implementation Teams/State

Transformational Teams Community of Practice (CoP) Internal Department of Education team

Other 07 OSEP Investments SPDG – 24 Awards

Data Accountability Center

Center on Response to Intervention

Possibilities for National Organization Learning

IDEA Partnership Project

RTI Summit

Tying It All Together

Goal: to ensure that all young people finish high school with the tools to be productive citizens in all aspects of their lives – work, family, community and leisure activities.

And join together to become life-long learners.

Let us put our heads together and see what life we will make for our children.

Tatanka Iotanka (Sitting Bull, Lakota Leader)

Endless Possibilities