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Tackling Equity in California: A Whole System Approach, Analysis and Plan for Improvement California Department of Education National Center for Systemic Improvement at WestEd Hemet Unified School District Matt Starts 1 minute overview

2019 OSEP Leadership Conference OSEP Disclaimer 2019 OSEP Leadership Conference DISCLAIMER: The contents of this presentation were developed by the presenters for the 2019 OSEP Leadership Conference. However, these contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. (Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1221e-3 and 3474) Matt 30 seconds

Our Presentation: Who Are We? Matt: This is Not a race conversation, this is an equity conversation through an improvement lens (note highlighted by OSEP) Matt Navo Director of System Transformation WestEd Karen Valdes Assistant Superintendent Student Services Hemet USD Kristin Wright California State Director of Special Education

Outcomes for Today’s Session Tackling Equity- CA State Level- Multi-Agency Technical Assistance and Support Tackling Equity- NCSI- Multi-District Support Tackling Equity- Hemet USD- Multi-Agency Support Matt 1 minute

California Education Code, Section 33080, Purpose of the Educational System “Each child is a unique person, with unique needs, and the purpose of the education system of this state is to enable each child to develop all of his or her own potential.” Matt- Set’s up and hands off to Kristin- 30 seconds Handoff to Kristin

Tackling Equity in California: It Takes a Village California’s Landscape Education spending = $53.2 Billion 1026 School Districts 10,473 Schools 1228 Charter Schools 628,849 Students in Charter Schools 6,220,413 Students 313,989 Teachers Student Population = 54.3% Hispanic/23.20% Caucasian Dataquest 2018 Kristine- 2 minutes a slide

Snapshot: Students with Disabilities (SWD) in California Public Schools Of the more than 795,047 SWD ages 0-22 comprising approximately 11% of the total student population in California: 68% are boys 26% are English Learners Top 3 primary disability categories Specific Learning Disability (37.77%) Speech and Language (20.72%) Autism (15.11%) CASEMIS 2018 2 minutes

Students with Disabilities by Disability Category 2018 Percent of Students Specific Learning Disability (SLD) 37.77 Speech or Language Impairment (SLI) 20.72 Autism (AUT) 15.11 Other Health Impairment (OHI) 13.12 Intellectual Disability (ID) 5.51 Emotional Disturbance (ED) 3.17 Hard of Hearing (HH) 1.34 Orthopedic Impairment (OI) 1.25 Multiple Disability (MD) 0.92 Visual Impairment (VI) 0.43 Deafness (DEAF) 0.41 Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) 0.19 Established Medical Disability (EMD) 0.06 Deaf Blindness (DB) 0.01 2 minute CASEMIS Dec 18

What are we doing to ensure equity for students with disabilities in California? Our what: Focus on outcomes leading to employment, independent living, access to higher education and community inclusion Our how: Ensure access to grade-level standards, including specialized instruction, through universally designed general education with a focus on tiered supports (MTSS) and quality first instruction 2 minutes (OSEP asked for “including specialized instruction).

Looking Through a Funding Lens: Students in CA Local Control Funding Formula Student Groups with IEPs 2018-19 2 min

In Relentless Pursuit of Ensuring LRE* Every child with a disability has the right to be educated with their grade-level peers without disabilities to the maximum extent appropriate. Kristin- 2 min Big policy- OSEP added maximum extent. *Least Restrictive Environment

Replacing IF we can with HOW we can …Replacing “IF” with “HOW”? Reframe school conversations with “how” a school team can include students with disabilities not “if” they can. OSEP- changed title Content is good. Kristin- 2 minutes

The Stars Continue to be Aligned in California Alignment across policy making entities to support one coherent system of education Governor, State Board of Education, Legislature, State Superintendent of Public Instruction New Accountability System Teacher credentialing changes from disability label driven to level of support driven Governor and Legislative Support for Addressing Special Education Funding and Issues Positive Fiscal Climate Changes at California Department of Education Cross state agency collaboration and collective work via an articulated state system of support Policy Drivers Mapping to Employment: Employment First, Competitive Integrated Employment, Workforce Innovations and Opportunity Act (WIOA) 2 minutes

California System of Support Kristin-3 minutes CA MTSS is part of the Statewide system of support

All Hands on Deck Approach in California: Early Lessons and Continuing Challenges Coordination of technical assistance to avoid district ”TA fatigue” Larger system needs to model the same continuous improvement it touts Strive for role definition and clarity across state, regional and local educational agencies and assistance providers Start with ensuring basic systems are in place for long term improvement sustainability HELP to align/make sense of monitoring and improvement activities Krstin-2 minutes

Special Education Indicators for LEA Profile (IDEA): Annual Performance Report (APR) Indicators Performance Measures: (state rate) Graduation Rates Dropout Rates Participation & performance on assessments, reading and math Suspension rates Educational settings Preschool settings Preschool outcomes Parent engagement 14. Post school outcomes 17. SSIP measure is academic performance on reading and math Compliance Measures: 100% Disproportionality (identification) Disproportionality (identification with AUT, SLD, SLI, ED, OHI, ID) Child find Transition to school (IDEA Part C to B) Post-secondary transition

Discuss and Revise Technical Assistance Crosswalk Kirstin hands off to Karen.

Tackling Equity: Hemet Unified School District Hemet USD Demographics (28 schools) 22,203 Students 60% Hispanic 9% African American 25% Caucasian 81% Free or reduced lunch 14% Special education 11% English Language Learners 1.1% Foster Youth Karen- 2 minutes per slide

Tackling Equity: Multi-agency Support California Department of Education National Center for System Improvement (NCSI) Hemet Unified School District

Understanding Improvement Central law of improvement Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets. system = An interdependent group of materials, people, and processes with a common purpose

Learning to Investigate Our System Learning Questions: What do we know about our current performance? What do we want to know? What method might we use to investigate? What do we predict we will learn? Planning who will do what? By when? Karen Hands off to Matt

National Center for Systemic Improvement (NCSI): Tackling Equity-in Multi-District Support Central Valley School Districts Central Valley Special Education Network Improvement Community Rural Schools 12,000 students 10-12% SWD 80% Free and Reduced Lunch/80-90% Hispanic Pulling leaning knowledge together Focused: Building Capacity of leaders and practitioners to improve outcomes for students with disabilities.

Tackling Equity through the Theory of Improvement Focusing on Directors of Special Education Building an improvement team around them Multi-disciplinary capacity Learning how to answer each question Network improvement community Analyzing common data Forming a narrative through consultancy (handout) Helping them to see their system (handout)

Different Kinds of Expertise to Improve Research Knowledge: Knowledge about what works. Professional/Practitioner Knowledge: Knowledge of organizational context, structures, and processes. Improvement Knowledge: The interaction of the theories of systems, variation, measurement, disciplined inquiry, user-centered design, and psychology. Matt Hands off to Karen.

Tackling Equity by Ensuring We are Improving the Same Thing Matt take it here.

Contacts Kristin Wright Email: Kwright@cde.ca.gov Karen Valdes Email:kvaldes@hemetusd.org Matt Navo Phone: 1-559-575-4706 Email: mnavo@wested.org

Tackling Equity in a District: Whole Systems Analysis and Improvement Thank You!

2019 OSEP Leadership Conference OSEP Disclaimer 2 2019 OSEP Leadership Conference DISCLAIMER: The contents of this presentation were developed by the presenters for the 2019 OSEP Leadership Conference. However, these contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. (Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1221e-3 and 3474)