1 Stakeholder Engagement State Personnel Development Grantees Directors’ Webinar Beth Moore, Ed.D. June 11, 2015

2 Florida’s State Personnel Development Grant: Successful Graduates Focus - To increase the graduation rate for students with disabilities

3 Focus - To increase the graduation rate for students with disabilities Reflected in: Florida’s Race to the Top grant participation Florida’s ESEA Flexibility Waiver Florida’s State Board of Education Strategic Plan Florida Department of Education, Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services’ Strategic Plan Florida’s State Identified Measurable Result (SIMR)

4 It Takes a Village: Collaboration of Parents, Community and Educators

5 Stakeholders Have Supported the Focus Evidence: Development of Florida Statutes State Board of Education Rules

6 Florida’s State Personnel Development Grant To build capacity in secondary schools to implement evidence-based practices: Check & Connect Strategic Instruction Model (SIM)

7 What is Check & Connect? A comprehensive student engagement intervention A trained mentor continuously checks on students, assessing their engagement with school and learning through close monitoring of their attendance, behavior, and grades; and connects with students, offering individualized intervention in partnership with school personnel, families, and community service providers.

8 What is the Strategic Instruction Model? A set of evidence-based tools that target the full range of skills students need to succeed in school and beyond

9 Florida’s State Personnel Development Grant: Provides technical assistance and professional development to targeted school districts across Florida Participating Middle and High Schools receive the information, materials and coaching necessary to implement Each school develops a plan to maintain the efforts after the SPDG funding has ended.

10 Florida’s State Personnel Development Grant Aligns with Florida’s Focus and Includes Stakeholder Engagement 1.BEESS Strategic Plan 2.Monitoring Visits 3.Discretionary Projects 4.SPDG Management Team 5.Parent Centers

11 Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services' Strategic Plan SPDG team participates on: Transition/Postsecondary Team Best Practices for Inclusion Team Parent Involvement Team

12 BEESS Monitoring Visits School districts on multi-tiered system of supports Level three districts identified SPDG team participates with internal & external stakeholders on visits

13 BEESS Discretionary Projects Experts in the field Boots on the ground Collaboration to meet students’ needs SPDG is one of the projects

14 SPDG Management Team Members Represent: BEESS FDOE Community & Family Outreach Districts Schools Universities Parent Centers Discretionary Projects

Parent Centers Supporting SPDG Work Family Network on Disabilities Central Florida Parent Center Parent to Parent of Miami

16 What are the Results?

17 Standard Diploma Graduation Rates

18 From Preschool to Post-School Outcomes Preparing Florida’s Students to Become College and Career Ready

Beth Moore, Ed.D.Peg Sullivan Florida Department of EducationFlorida SPDG Project Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student *