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A Review of School Readiness Practices in the States: Early Learning Guidelines and Assessment
Posted on Wednesday 14th July 2010, 6:17pm by Brenda Myles
A new Child Trends brief provides an overview of state early learning guidelines and efforts to monitor statewide school readiness across multiple domains of development. The brief, A Review of School Readiness Practices in the States: Early Learning Guidelines and Assessments, also outlines key policy considerations for supporting and tracking school readiness at the state level.
The brief is available at www.childtrends.org/Files/Child_Trends-2010_06_18_ECH_SchoolReadiness.pdf.
Thank you Pat Schissel for this information.
Information on the RRC Program (a good refresher)
Posted on Tuesday 13th July 2010, 1:20pm by Brenda Myles
The Regional Resource Centers Program (www.rrfccnetwork.org) provides service to all states as well as the Pacific jurisdictions, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. The six regional program centers are funded by the federal Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to assist state education agencies in the systemic improvement of education programs, practices, and policies that affect children and youth with disabilities. Services offered by the RRC Program include consultation, information services, specially designed technical assistance, training, and product development.
Through the RRC Program, the individual RRCs work collaboratively to help states and U.S. jurisdictions identify and address issues both within and across regions as well as nationally. By working across regions, the RRCs are able to facilitate networking and information-sharing among states and U.S. jurisdications with similar challenges and needs regardless of the specific regional location.
The RRC Program regularly collaborates with other OSEP-funded Technical Assistance and Dissemination (TA&D) Network centers on conferences, topical workgroups, product development, and other activities. By working collaboratively with centers in the the larger OSEP-funded Technical Assistance and Dissemination (TA&D) Network, the RRC Program is able to offer clients the benefits of nationwide expertise and high-quality technical assistance.
Jill and Brenda
Website of the Week
Posted on Monday 12th July 2010, 5:55pm by Brenda Myles
This site, a collaborative effort among 10 state agencies, was launched to increase and improve communication to the public about autism and the programs, initiative, or news from the various state agencies that have relevance for individuals with ASD and their families: www.autism.ohio.gov
Thanks. Brenda and Jill
Website of the Week
Posted on Wednesday 7th July 2010, 1:21pm by Brenda Myles
This week's Website of the Week was developed by the Utah Personnel Developmental Center (www.updc.org). Please pay particular attention to this part of the website: http://www.updc.org/assessment/:
CBM Focus
A free user-friendly Excel based program that can be used to track Curriculum-Based data. It is intended to be used to help identify students struggling in any of multiple academic areas, develop interventions to support them at any level of the 3-Tier model, and progress monitor the effectiveness of the intervention(s) and the students’ response to the intervention(s).
Research Institute on Progress Monitoring OSEP has funded the Research Institute on Progress Monitoring to develop a system of progress monitoring to evaluate effects of individualized instruction on access to and progress within the general education curriculum.
Website of the Week (thanks to Chris Filler)
Posted on Friday 2nd July 2010, 1:31pm by Brenda Myles
The brief is available at www.childtrends.org/Files/Child_Trends-2010_06_18_ECH_SchoolReadiness.pdf.
Thank you Pat Schissel for this information.