Agenda (continued)

6:45 am - 8:00 am

SIG/SPDG Evaluators' Affinity Session
Harding

• Session Leader:  Jim Frasier, Wisconsin SPDG Evaluator

This affinity session is open to all SIG/SPDG evaluators.  Session content is formative and without a set agenda.  Attendees will discuss issues, concerns, wishes, and/or "blue sky" thinking about what they are experiencing in their respective states related to SIG/SPDG evaluation work.

7:30 am - 8:25 am

Discussion Sessions
These optional sessions are informal opportunities to discuss topics proposed by conference attendees.

RTI:  Implications for Preparing Special Education Personnel
Maryland ABC

• Session Leader: George Sugai, University of Connecticut

The Amount and Type of Support for Preparation in Teaching
Virginia ABC

• Session Leader: Elizabeth Crais, University of North Carolina

Creating a Seamless System of Personnel Development: Communication and Collaboration Mechanisms Between State Education Agencies (SEAs) and Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs)
Delaware AB

• Session Leader: Lori Massey, Florida’s State Personnel Development Grant

Addressing the Shortage of New Ph.D. Faculty in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology: The Causes and One University’s Method for Resolving the Issue
Wilson ABC

• Session Leader: Ray Hull, Wichita State University

8:00 am - 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast
State Corridor

8:30 am - 10:15 am

Keynote
Salon I & II

OSEP Updates

Turbulence, Tribulation, and Transformation:  A Look at the Status of Special Education Teacher Preparation

• Keynote Presenter: Marilyn Friend, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Contemporary special education teacher preparation is being influenced by a number of significant factors, including the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2004, the pool of candidates seeking to become teachers, the availability and character of teacher educators, rapid advances in technology, the increasing diversity of children, and the changing demands in public schools.  These sometimes competing and sometimes complementary elements have the potential to either unify core principles of effective teacher preparation or to fragment them.  Only through collaborative efforts that involve all key groups are the most effective teacher preparation practices and programs likely to emerge.

10:15 am - 10:30 am

Break

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Large Group Panels

Model Demonstration: Identification, Implementation, and Evaluation
Lincoln 5 & 6

• Presenters: Edward Shapiro, Lehigh University; Wayne Sailor, University of Kansas; Mary Wagner, SRI International
• Moderator: Kat Stremel, Western Oregon University
• Appropriate Audience: TA&D, Personnel Development, Researchers, PTI
• Level of Session: Beginner

Retrofit No More: The Intersection of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Response to Intervention (RTI) in the Curriculum
Maryland ABC

• Presenters: Karen Erickson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Cynthia Curry, Maine Consumer Information Technology and Training Exchange (CITE); Tracy Gray, CITEd & NCTI
• Moderator: Skip Stahl, Center for Applied Special Technology
• Appropriate Audience: SPDG, TA&D, Technology and Media, PTI, and other participants interested in the development of flexible and responsive learning environments
• Level of Session: Intermediate

Moving the Data on State Performance Plan (SPP) Indicators: Where Do You Fit In?
Delaware AB

• Presenters: Ruth Ryder, OSEP; Diana Autin, Statewide Parent Advocacy Network; Jane Falls, National Post School Outcomes Center; Cesar D’Agord, Western Regional Resource Center; Mary Beth Bruder, University of Connecticut
• Moderator: Sandy McQuain, West Virginia Department of Education
• Appropriate Audience: This presentation will be of interest to project directors who are assisting States with issues related to the SPP and APR, as well as project focused on personnel development or professional development.
• Level of Session: Advanced

Grants: How to Get Them and How to Keep Them
Virginia ABC

• Presenters: Normal Lopez-Reyna, Monarch Center; Shedeh Hajghassemali, OSEP; Terry Jackson, OSEP
• Moderator: Ernest Hairston, OSEP
• Appropriate Audience: All program areas and projects
• Level of Session: Beginner

Scaling Up the Use of Evidence-Based Practices: What Will It Take to Improve the Outcomes for Young Children With Disabilities?
Wilson ABC

• Presenters: Lise Fox, University of South Florida; Charlie Greenwood, University of Kansas; Beth Rous, University of Kentucky
• Moderator: Jennifer Tschantz, OSEP
• Appropriate Audience: Attendees interested in Part C and B preschool programs, including providers, practitioners, technical assistance providers, higher education faculty, researchers, and parents of young children served by these programs.
• Level of Session: Intermediate

12:00 pm - 12:15 pm

Break

12:15 pm - 1:45 pm

Lunch with Keynote
Salon I & II

Changing the Data, Changing Our Minds: Disproportionality and Improving Schools

• Keynote Speaker: Russell Skiba, Indiana University, Bloomington

1:45 pm - 2:00 pm

Break

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Small Breakout Sessions

Who Are the Students in Alternate and Modified Achievement Standards Assessments?
Maryland AB

• Presenters: Jacqui Kearns, University of Kentucky; Martha Thurlow, National Center on Educational Outcomes; Liz Towles-Reeves, University of Kentucky
• Appropriate Audience: TA&D, SPDG
• Level of Session: Beginner

Response to Intervention: Where do the States Stand?
Lincoln 5 & 6

• Presenters: Darren Woodruff, National Center on Response to Intervention; Amy Klekotka, National Center on Response to Intervention; Tina Diamond, OSEP
• Appropriate Audience: TA&D
• Level of Session: Intermediate

An Alternative Approach to Deaf Education: A California Experimental Teacher Preparation Program
Wilson C

• Presenter: Tom Humphries, University of California, San Diego
• Appropriate Audience: Personnel Development, SPDG
• Level of Session: Beginner

Gender and Ethnicity in the Early Adolescent Screening Process for Emotional and Behavioral Disorders (EBD)
Taft

• Presenter: Ellie Young, Brigham Young University
• Appropriate Audience:Personnel Development, SPDG
• Level of Session: Beginner

Basing a Low-Incidence Preparation Program on Making Standards an Explicit and Systematic Component
Wilson AB

• Presenters: Annette Skellenger, Western Michigan University; Donna Keale, Colorado School for the Blind
• Appropriate Audience: Personnel Development
• Level of Session: Intermediate

Implementation by Design: What Does the Research Say?
Lincoln 2–4

• Presenters: Tracy Gray, Center for Implementing Technology in Education (CITEd); Mary Thorngren, CITEd; Dean Fixsen, National Implementation Research Network
• Appropriate Audience: Technology and Media, Personnel Development
• Level of Session: Intermediate

Tracking, Referral, and Assessment Center for Excellence: What We Learned That Can Enhance Program Practices
Virginia AB

• Presenters: Carl Dunst, Orelena Hawks Puckett Institute; Carol Trivette, Orelena Hawks Puckett Institute
• Appropriate Audience: Early Childhood, TA&D
• Level of Session: Intermediate

Teaching Communicative Gestures to Children With Deaf-Blindness Through Adapted Prelinguistic Milieu Teaching (PMT)
Maryland C

• Presenter: Susan Bashinski, University of Kansas
• Appropriate Audience: Deaf-Blind Personnel, Personnel Development
• Level of Session: Intermediate

Using Higher Education/Local Education Agency (LEA) Partnerships to Drive Statewide Systems Change: Georgia’s Plan to Increase Preparation Program Accessibility for Hard-to-Staff School Districts
Virginia C

• Presenters: Phoebe Gillespie, Personnel Center at the National Association for State Directors of Special Education; Julia Causey, Georgia Department of Education; Phil Gunter, Valdosta State University
• Audience Type: Personnel Development, SPDG
• Level of Session: Intermediate

Dropout Prevention Initiatives at the Local Level: The National Dropout Prevention Center for Students With Disabilities’ (NDPC-SD) Work in Georgia
Harding

• Presenters: Loujeania Bost, NDPC-SD; Laura Brown, North Georgia Learning Resources System
• Appropriate Audience: TA&D, SPDG
• Level of Session: Intermediate

Why Some Doctoral Students Take Longer to Finish Than Others: What Faculty Can Do to Improve Timely Program Completion
Coolidge

• Presenters: Chriss Walther-Thomas, University of Kansas; Maya Israel, University of Kansas; Trish Steinbrecher, University of Kansas
• Appropriate Audience: Personnel Development, SPDG
• Level of Session: Intermediate

Kansas Center for Early Intervention in Reading and Behavior: Implementation of Three Tiered Models
Hoover

• Presenters: Howard P. Wills, Juniper Children’s Project; Mary Abbott, Juniper Children’s Project
• Appropriate Audience: All projects and grantees
• Level of Session: Intermediate

PreK-16 Systems Change: Collaboration through Quality in New York State
McKinley

• Presenters: Peter Kozik, New York Higher Education Support Center, Syracuse University; Matthew Giugno, New York State Education Department; Brenda Dressler, Touro College
• Appropriate Audience: Personnel Development, SPDG
• Level of Session: Intermediate

Arkansas’ Response to Intervention (RTI)/Closing the Achievement Gap Initiative: Scaling Up the State Improvement Grant’s School Prevention, Review, and Intervention Team (SPRINT) Process for Systemic Implementation and Success
Balcony A

• Presenter: Howie Knoff, Arkansas Department of Education
• Appropriate Audience: TA&D, SPDG
• Level of Session: Intermediate

Channel 102 Jamz! – Project PUSH Impact
Balcony B

• Presenters: Cathy Kea, North Carolina A&T State University; TeRay McKesson-Ross, Wichita Public Schools; Malaina Godwin, Greensboro Public Schools; Jerren Turley, Student, New York University
• Appropriate Audience: Personnel Development
• Level of Session: Intermediate

Preparing Speech-Language Pathologists
Delaware AB

Session Description: This session is a poster symposium.  Four posters will be presented and a large group discussion will be focused around the content of the posters.

Topics Will Include:

Effective Collaborations to Train Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) to Assess and Maximize Oral Communication in Students With Autism in the Public Schools

• Presenters: Mary Andrianopoulos, University of Massachusetts; Shelley Velleman, University of Massachusetts; Elena Zaretsky, University of Massachusetts

Augmentative & Alternative Communication Supports for Students With Significant Disabilities to Learn Academics in General Education Classrooms

• Presenter: Rae Sonnenmeier, University of New Hampshire

Preparing SLPs for New Educational Roles in Language and Literacy

• Presenters: Linda Rosa-Lugo, University of Central Florida; R. Jane Lieberman, University of Central Florida

Enhancing SLP Students’ Skills in Facilitating Social Inclusion of Children With Disabilities Into Educational and Community Programs

• Presenters: Elizabeth Crais, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Harriet Boone, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Break

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Large Group Panel Sessions

Accessible Textbooks in the Classroom: National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) and Beyond
Maryland ABC

• Presenters: Jeff Diedrich, Michigan’s Integrated Technology Supports; Diane Golden, Missouri Assistive Technology; June DeLeon, The Pacific Consortium for Instructional Materials Accessibility Project
• Moderator: Chuck Hitchcock, NIMAS Technical Assistance Center and Accessible Instructional Materials Consortium
• Appropriate Audience: SPDG, TA&D, Regional Resource Centers, PTI, and all other participants interested in access to instructional materials in specialized formats
• Level of Session: Intermediate

Are Your Graduates Highly Qualified? Multiple Models for Preparing Special Education Teachers
Virginia ABC

• Presenters: Linda Blanton, Florida International University; Marleen Pugach, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Michael Hardman, University of Utah
• Moderator: Lisa Monda Amaya, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Appropriate Audience: Personnel Development, SPDG, TA&D, and others who share an interest in program improvement to increase results for students with disabilities.
• Level of Session: Intermediate

How “Flexible” Are You? Alternate (1%) and Modified (2%) Academic Achievement Standards: Implications for Policy, Instruction, Preservice , and Inservice
Wilson ABC

• Presenters: Martha Thurlow, National Center on Educational Outcomes; Michael McSheehan, Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire; Sue Rigney, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education
• Moderator: Karen Erickson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Appropriate Audience: This session is appropriate for all who are interested in serving or preparing others to serve students with significant cognitive disabilities.
• Level of Session: Beginner

Progress Monitoring in Early Childhood: Generating a Discussion
Delaware AB

• Presenters: Judy Carta, Juniper Gardens, University of Kansas; Kathleen Hebbeler, SRI International; Nan Vendegna, Colorado Results Matter
• Moderator: Christy Kavulic, OSEP
• Appropriate Audience: Attendees interested in Part C and B preschool programs, including providers, practitioners, technical assistance providers, higher education faculty, researchers, and parents of young children served by these programs.
• Level of Session: Intermediate

Fidelity: How Much Devotion Is Enough? (and Other Methodological Virtues)
Lincoln 2–4

• Presenters: Carl Dunst, Orelena Hawks Puckett Institute; Rob Horner, University of Oregon; Karen Blase, University of South Florida
• Moderator: Lynne Kahn, National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center
• Appropriate Audience: TA&D, Personnel Development, and Technology and Media
• Level of Session: Intermediate

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