For Starters: It’s IDEIA ! What’s New in IDEA? For Starters: It’s IDEIA !

History of IDEA See Chapter 2 in your book

DECEMBER 2004 NEW IDEA or IDEIA

All Kids are Gen Ed First Prevention, Not Failure Influenced by President’s Commission on Excellence in Special Education PCESE 2002 All Kids are Gen Ed First Results, Not Process PCESE is President’s Commission on Excellence in Special Education Prevention, Not Failure

Three Broad Recommendations Consider children with disabilities as general education children first Focus on Results-not on process Embrace a model of prevention not a model of failure

Where do they get these recommendations? From the research!

Nine Findings Legal Safeguards/Access has created a system focused on compliance not quality Antiquated model of failure rather than prevention General Education and Special Education share responsibilities for children with disabilities and they should not be separable at any level: identification, instruction or cost Parents need to be empowered and have choices

Nine Findings Culture of compliance has diverted resources to litigation Current methods of identifying children with disabilities lack validity (LD) Need for highly qualified teachers Special Education research needs enhanced rigor and long term coordination Focus on academic achievement and social outcomes

Timeline for Special Education (discuss this next class session in detail)

State’s General Supervision Child Find FAPE in the LRE Early Childhood Transition Secondary Transition Services Data Collection Monitoring Dispute Resolution Parent Involvement

Eligibility Changes: LD Learning Disability (LD): achievement and IQ discrepancy model (the “wait to fail model”) cannot be mandated by the SEA Schools may use Response to Intervention (RTI) model for LD eligibility determination

IEP Requirements Participation in Statewide Assessment determined and documented in IEP Accommodations determined and documented in IEP Measurable annual goals include academic and functional goals (PLAAFP) Students assessed on alternate achievement standards also have short-term objectives in IEP Secondary Transition Services linked to measurable post-secondary outcomes Course of study, career/employment training and independent living assessments linked to post-secondary outcomes

DID YOU KNOW? That IDEA (since 1998) has required ALL students with an IEP to be assessed using state and district-wide assessment?

DID YOU KNOW That the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) states Section 20.2. “A state’s academic assessment must provide for the participation of all students in the grades assessed.” AND “…provide one or more alternative assessment for students with disabilities as defined in IDEA.

How does DATA or ASSESSMENTS work into this?

Special Education Teacher in charge of…. Measurable annual goals include academic and functional goals (PLAAFP) Secondary Transition Services linked to measurable post-secondary outcomes Course of study, career/employment training and independent living assessments linked to post-secondary outcomes Participation in Statewide Assessment determined and documented in IEP

Some of this data or assessment results gets turned into the state of Michigan for school’s reports and to add to the state’s report to the federal government

Let’s look at how data is used… Michigan School Report Card Found at Michigan School Report Cards found at https://oeaa.state.mi.us/ayp/