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OSDE - SES -February 8, 2024 - External
The Developmental Disabilities Council of Oklahoma is hosting their annual Oklahoma Youth Leadership Forum (YLF) in June 2024. YLF is a great self-advocacy and self-determination learning opportunity for youth with disabilities! It is an educational, fun-filled, motivational, and packed week of experiences like no other! Check out the YLF Brochure and learn more about this event on the Oklahoma YLE page and encourage students and families to APPLY for YLF NOW!
*Applications are due March 1, 2024.
LAMP Conference 2024
LAMP is an augmentative alternative communication (AAC) approach designed to give individuals who are nonverbal or have limited verbal abilities a method of independently expressing themselves through the use of speech-generating device. There is no cognitive prerequisites for implementing the LAMP approach. Please join us February 29, 2024 - March 1, 2024.
For more information, please see the LAMP Flyer and Brochure.
Each year at the CEC Convention & Expo, thousands of special education professionals from around the world come together to learn, share, grow, and connect. With hundreds of sessions on just about every topic in the field, the CEC Convention & Expo is THE professional development event for special educators to find research, tips, and strategies to support students with disabilities and/or gifts and talents.
We want to make sure your teachers, administrators, principals, and support personnel have the chance to attend the biggest special event of the year. That’s why we’re offering all Oklahoma residents a special offer for $70 off registration. All they need to do is use code OKLAHOMA24 when registering to save.
Please share this information with your district, division, and area administrators and encourage them to take advantage of this special offer through January 31, 2024.
Please join us March 13-16, 2024. For more information, view the CEC 2024 Convention & Expo Website.
- “Supporting CTE Special Populations Grant Application 2024-2026” is now available for review and will open in March 2024!!! Check it out and begin planning in advance for an opportunity to be awarded a two-year grant (up to $50,000/year) aimed at helping schools implement transition programs and/or other support strategies to assist in the provision of transferable skill sets to students regarding the attainment of meaningful employment and becoming productive members of society!!!
- The Supporting CTE Special Populations Overview (oklahoma.gov) outlines the requirements for the 2024-2026 grant application and required goal priorities.
- Perkins LEAs or consortia meeting the $15,000 requirement OR technology centers, technology center co-ops, postsecondary institutions, or consortia meeting the $50,000 requirement are eligible to complete the grant application.
- Application deadline is currently listed as May 3, 2024 (subject to change).
Multisensory Math Training
Multisensory Math Training Presented by Hydeparkday Training, in collaboration with Marilyn Zercher
A two-day Multisensory Math Training appropriate for grades PreK-4th grade and SPED teachers on March 1-2, 2024 in Oklahoma City.
Attendees receive:
- Multisensory manipulative materials
- A curriculum scope and sequence, including Background and Theory/ Research Rationale on Multisensory Math, including knowledge of precursor numeracy skills through operations of algebraic thinking, geometry, mathematical practices, and fractions.
- Access to training presentation materials
- A certificate of course completion
For more information and registration, please see Multisensory Math Training.
The Oklahoma Autism Center is offering Professional Development Opportunities for 2023-2024 including:
- Autism: Foundation Training
- Reducing Challenging Behaviors
- Conducting FBA and Writing BIP's
Please see the OAC Professional Development Opportunities for more information.
Special Education Services
Oklahoma State Department of Education
2500 North Lincoln Boulevard, Suite 412
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105
P: (405) 521-3351 F: (405) 522-2380
SDESpecialEducation@sde.ok.gov
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OSDE - SES - February 6, 2024 - Internal
Over the past several years, the Oklahoma State Department of Education, Office of Special Education Services (OSDE-SES) has partnered with the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA) to provide a system for School-Based Medicaid reimbursement that is compliant and user-friendly for schools. OHCA has identified the OSDE as the program administrator for the school-based Medicaid program. OSDE has contracted with the Public Consulting Group (PCG) to submit claims on behalf of districts. However, the “school-based Medicaid program” is inclusive of any school that bills Medicaid, even if it does not use PCG to submit its claims. Please see the Medicaid Memo for more information.
Questions and concerns can be directed to Kellie Carter.
SPARK, or Special Education Professional Advancement and Refinement of Knowledge, is an initiative of the Oklahoma State Personnel Development Grant (OK-SPDG). At the highest level of support, OK-SPDG provides in-person and virtual direct coaching support through the SPARK initiative. Interested special educators are selected for this support through an objective application process.
For the purposes of this initiative, OK-SPDG defines "early career special educator" as any individual who has worked as a PreK-12th grade special education teacher for 5 years or less, regardless of prior teaching experience. In order to qualify for this coaching support, the applicant must be employed for the 2023-24 school year in an Oklahoma public school as a special education teacher and providing specially designed instruction for students on an Individualized Education Program (IEP) for at least 50% of their contract time. If you have questions about whether your employment qualifies, please contact Alexa Hudak, SPDG Project Director 405-522-4513.
Participants who are selected for professional development and complete the 10 hours of provided coursework will receive a $500 stipend. Participants selected for professional development and coaching and complete the 10 hours of provided coursework and engage fully in coaching will receive a $2,000 stipend. More information regarding stipends will be provided at the time of selection.
The application link can be found in the PDF application and must be completed by the educator seeking the professional development and coaching opportunity.
Personal Care Assistants are under the directions of certified special education and/or related services staff, a Personal Care Assistant (PCA) assists one or more students in accomplishing instrumental activities of daily living, health-related functions, redirection of behavior, and other tasks as identified in an Individualized Education Program (IEP), Section 504 Plan or health plan for assigned students. Personal Care Assistants may be assigned to work with students who have physical disabilities, healthcare/medical needs, or require other forms of specialized care.
OSDE-SES continues its partnership with PCG-Medicaid billing services and Presence this year. Presence is the leading provider of live, online therapy and evaluation services in pre–K–12 schools and has delivered over 6 million sessions to students around the country.
You may contract directly with Presence to meet any of their evaluation and/or therapy needs.
However, if your district signs up to bill Medicaid through PCG, your district may be eligible to access free evaluations through Presence.
- Jeni Robison for more information about Medicaid billing
- Kelly Wright for more information about services through Presence
**NEW** OAAP Update
You can find the most updated OAAP information for the 2023-2024 school year in the OAAP Memo. Find and access information regarding the Instructionally Embedded Assessment Window closing, how to pull the Training Status Report, Spring Testing Reminders, and more in the memo.
If your district is anticipating more than 1.0 percent of your testing population (Grades 3-8, and 11) will participate in the OAAP/DLM testing in the 2024 spring operational window, the survey: “2024 Justification for Exceeding 1.0 % in OAAP Participation” must be completed online by March 1, 2024.
If your district is not expecting to exceed the cap, no action is required. The survey is designed to be completed by someone at the administrative level with special education and state testing knowledge. It may be completed by either the District Testing Coordinator, Special Education Director, or someone in a similar position.
**NEW** IDEA Allocation Adjustment
The IDEA Part B Flowthrough Allocation Adjustment has now been uploaded in the Grant Management System (GMS). Districts must create a budget amendment for the IDEA Consolidated Application in order to view and budget those funds. To access the Grants Management System (GMS), go to the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) website and scroll down to the Oklahoma State Department of Education Single Sign-On and click to access the site.
- Login by using your username and password.
- Click the Grants Management and Expenditure Reporting button
- Scroll down to IDEA Consolidated Application
- Click the amend button.
For questions or additional information, please contact your Finance Specialist. The budget amendment should be completed by March 15, 2024.
New memorandum regarding changes and updates to the application for High Needs, Tier I and Tier II. Please contact your finance specialist for any assistance
Alternate Diploma Updates
Based on new legislation, Oklahoma has a new graduation pathway for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. The new state-defined alternate diploma is available for the school year 2023-2034. Following graduation, students who graduate with an alternate diploma must be afforded a Free Appropriate Public Education through the school year in which the student turns 22 years of age. This change will require districts to provide additional services through the Extended Secondary Transition Program. More information is available regarding the following:
- Guide for Allowable Core Substitutions & Oklahoma State Board of Education Approved List of Allowable Substitutions for Life Skills and Career Readiness
- Mini Maps: Geography
- Mini Maps: Oklahoma History
- Mini Maps: US Government
- Mini Map: Career Readiness
- Mini Map: Life Skills
- Combined Alternate Standards
- Alternate Diploma Exit & Entry Code Flow Chart
- Project 618 Funding for Transition Program
- Alternate Diploma Checklist
- Alternate Diploma Codes & Descriptions
- ICAP for Students with Significant (Support) Needs
- Alternate Diploma Guidance Brief
The Oklahoma State Department of Education, Office of Special Education Services will continue to hold Secondary Transition/Alternate Diploma Collaborative meetings monthly beginning in August.
Zoom meetings will typically be held on the 4th Thursday of each month at 3:00 p.m., except for holidays/school vacation weeks.
The schedule of monthly sessions and known topics are listed below:
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February 22, 2024 @ 3:00 p.m.
- OK's Got Talent with Moore Public Schools Whitney Green, Academic Resource Coordinator
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March 28, 2024 @ 3:00 p.m.
- Special Olympics Unified Sports – Meg Corn, Special Olympics Oklahoma & Mustang Public Schools
Join us via Zoom for all sessions scheduled.
Meeting ID: 160 702 2023 Passcode: 393839OSDE-SES is providing Transition Technical Assistance through a temporary, part-time Secondary Transition Program Specialist. Assistance to schools/districts will be available through various formats to include e-mail, phone, virtual (via Microsoft Teams) and/or in-person. Please use this link to complete a Transition Technical Assistance Request for your school/district regarding Secondary Transition topics, including the new Alternate Diploma and 18-22 Transition Programs. For brief questions and/or more information about Transition Technical Assistance, please contact Claudia Beckner or Lori Chesnut.
**NEW** Early Childhood Outcomes/Indicator 7 Data Dive Open Door
Questions about Indicator 7 Results? Join us for an overview of this indicator including targets, calculations, and responding to results on February 22nd from 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM during our Open Door Indicator 7 Data Session.
The Oklahoma School for the Deaf is pleased to present the 2024 statewide Deaf Education Conference.
Professionals in the field of deaf education will come together, engage in dynamic workshops, connect with colleagues, and identify pathways to empowering students through access, language, and literacy. Attendees will include early interventionists, early childhood specialists, teachers of the deaf, and educational interpreters.
The pre-conference will be held June 3-4, 2024. The conference will be held June 5-6, 2024.Registration is now open.
Paraprofessional Conference
The Oklahoma State Department of Education, Office of Special Education Services will be holding their 2nd Annual Paraprofessional Conference in 4 locations around the state. We have also created a Paraprofessional Website for the 2023-2024 Conference with all information regarding the conference.
- February 16th in Enid, Oklahoma - Register Now!
- March 1st in Wetumka, Oklahoma - Register Now!
Registration is now OPEN for districts to send their paraprofessionals or other support staff to attend the 2nd Annual Paraprofessional Conference for their yearly 6 hours of Professional Development. Make sure you register for the ONE location you would like to attend before all the spots are filled! Seats are limited!
REMEMBER TO PRINT YOUR TICKET.Districts can use Project 613 funds to pay for substitutes, travel, and lodging. Lodging must be over 60 miles.
NOTE: The dates of the conferences in the Fall of 2023 and Spring of 2024 may interfere with some districts Fall and Spring breaks. The city, date and venues of the conferences were selected before the districts school calendars were made public. Thank you for understanding and we hope to see your support staff at one of the locations of the Paraprofessional Conferences.
If you have any questions/concerns please contact Megan Salisbury and/or Abby Johnson.
The Oklahoma State Department of Education, Office of Special Education Services will be holding their CPI 2-day Regional Trainings for you to send 4 employees to get blue card certified.
ONLY 40 people will be able to attend each session, so make sure you register ASAP! Waiting lists have been opened for spots that are sold out.NOTE: A waitlist has opened for the sessions, if the session is full follow the link to join the waitlist.
2024 - Second Semester -
- February 8-9, 2024 - Lawton, Oklahoma - Bishop Public Schools, Gym
- February 22-23, 2024 - Tulsa, Oklahoma - Tulsa Tech, Riverside Campus
- March 14-15, 2024 - Afton, Oklahoma - Northeast Technology - Afton Campus
- April 11-12, 2024 - Guymon, Oklahoma - Guymon Jr. High
CPI is approved through Project 613 for substitutes, travel, and lodging. Keep in mind lodging must be at least 60 miles one way. Questions can be directed to Megan Salisbury.
Secondary Transition for Students with Disabilities
The Secondary Transition for Students with Disabilities self-paced course has been released and is now open for enrollment in OSDE Connect. This course is recommended for teachers/providers who are new to secondary transition and as a refresher for experienced staff. There are great links and resources contained in the course. Participants will receive a certificate of completion. This is also a recommended pre-requisite for participants in enrolled in the upcoming Secondary Transition (Severe/Profound): Assessment Results to Develop Meaningful Transition Plans for Students who Participate in the OAAP on February 27th in Oklahoma City, as well as the sessions for Mild/Moderate and Severe/Profound in the Tulsa area in May.
The course can be accessed directly Secondary Transition for Students with Disabilities.
The OSDE-SES is pleased to offer five regional trainings to empower educators to effectively teach transition skills and monitor student progress. This training will demonstrate how to implement effective instructional practices to teach transition skills to students with significant cognitive and adaptive disabilities who participate in the Oklahoma Alternate Assessment Program (OAAP). Special educators and paraprofessionals will learn to use data collection, task analysis (forward and backward chaining), and prompting (when and how to use prompts, how to fade prompts) to enable students to make progress toward their postsecondary and annual transition goals.
- 2/29/2024 - Lawton, Oklahoma
This training will focus on using assessment results to develop meaningful transition plans for students with severve/profound disabilities.
Participants will:
- Learn to incorporate transition assessment results into the IEP
- Review case studies
- Analyze transition assessment results
- Use assessment results to identify specific transition strengths and needs and develop postsecondary goals, annual transition goals, services, coordinated activities, and courses of study.
- February 27 from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (check-in begins at 8:30 am) at Francis Tuttle (RENO CAMPUS), Oklahoma City
- May 8 from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (check-in begins at 8:30 am) at Central Technology Center, Sapulpa
This training will focus on using assessment results to develop meaningful transition plans for students with mild/moderate disabilities.
Participants will:
- Learn to incorporate transition assessment results into the IEP
- Review case studies
- Analyze transition assessment results
- Use assessment results to identify specific transition strengths and needs and develop postsecondary goals, annual transition goals, services, coordinated activities, and courses of study.
- May 7 from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (check-in begins at 8:30 am) at Central Technology Center, Sapulpa
Educational Interpreter Registry
If your district employs educational interpreters, please verify that they are on the OSDE Educational Interpreter Registry. All interpreters in an educational setting are required to be on the registry and are required to obtain yearly CEUs.
Special Education Services
Oklahoma State Department of Education
2500 North Lincoln Boulevard, Suite 412
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105
P: (405) 521-3351 F: (405) 522-2380
SDESpecialEducation@sde.ok.gov
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OSDE - SES -February 1, 2024 - External
The Developmental Disabilities Council of Oklahoma is hosting their annual Oklahoma Youth Leadership Forum (YLF) in June 2024. YLF is a great self-advocacy and self-determination learning opportunity for youth with disabilities! It is an educational, fun-filled, motivational, and packed week of experiences like no other! Check out the YLF Brochure and learn more about this event on the Oklahoma YLE page and encourage students and families to APPLY for YLF NOW!
*Applications are due March 1, 2024.Many agencies, organizations and businesses across Oklahoma provide tuition assistance benefits to help their employees pay for higher education. Types of education benefits for employees vary, and may include:
- Tuition payment assistance or reimbursement.
- Payment/reimbursement for licensing courses and exams.
- Matched contributions to employer-sponsored 529 college savings plan.
- Student loan repayment.
Some employers that offer educational benefit options require a minimum waiting period for eligibility, some set a maximum benefit amount, and some may extend educational benefits to employee dependents. Please visit our alphabetical list of some Oklahoma employers that offer tuition assistance benefits for employees. For more specific and comprehensive information, contact the employer directly.
**NEW** Alternate Diploma - Myths and Facts
Learn about the graduation pathway for students who participate in the Alternative Assessment Program. Learn how to access FAPE until age 22.
Join us on January 30, 2024 at 6:00 PM.For more information and to register, please see the Alternate Diploma. Also available in Spanish.
Sooner Works is the inclusive postsecondary education program at the University of Oklahoma for students with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
For the application portal, please visit the application overview packet.
Applications are due February 1st.Sooner Works will also be hosting two more Virtual Open Houses via Zoom where any interested student, parent, or educator can learn more about the program and meet our staff.
For more information and registration, please see Virtual Open Houses.
This course fulfills the requirements listed in 70 O.S § 1210.284: Vision Screening - Recommendations on Standards - Comprehensive Eye Exam on Failure - Annual Reports.
Vision Screening Provider Training-- OKC: Feb 8, 2024, 9AM-12PM
- Glenpool (Tulsa Area): Feb 15, 2024, 9AM - 12PM
- OKC, Feb 8, 2024: 1PM - 4PM
- Glenpool (Tulsa Area): Feb 15, 2024 1PM - 4PM
If you have any questions, please send them to Kellie Carter
LAMP is an augmentative alternative communication (AAC) approach designed to give individuals who are nonverbal or have limited verbal abilities a method of independently expressing themselves through the use of speech-generating device. There is no cognitive prerequisites for implementing the LAMP approach. Please join us February 29, 2024 - March 1, 2024.
For more information, please see the LAMP Flyer and Brochure.
Each year at the CEC Convention & Expo, thousands of special education professionals from around the world come together to learn, share, grow, and connect. With hundreds of sessions on just about every topic in the field, the CEC Convention & Expo is THE professional development event for special educators to find research, tips, and strategies to support students with disabilities and/or gifts and talents.
We want to make sure your teachers, administrators, principals, and support personnel have the chance to attend the biggest special event of the year. That’s why we’re offering all Oklahoma residents a special offer for $70 off registration. All they need to do is use code OKLAHOMA24 when registering to save.
Please share this information with your district, division, and area administrators and encourage them to take advantage of this special offer through January 31, 2024.
Please join us March 13-16, 2024. For more information, view the CEC 2024 Convention & Expo Website.
- “Supporting CTE Special Populations Grant Application 2024-2026” is now available for review and will open in March 2024!!! Check it out and begin planning in advance for an opportunity to be awarded a two-year grant (up to $50,000/year) aimed at helping schools implement transition programs and/or other support strategies to assist in the provision of transferable skill sets to students regarding the attainment of meaningful employment and becoming productive members of society!!!
- The Supporting CTE Special Populations Overview (oklahoma.gov) outlines the requirements for the 2024-2026 grant application and required goal priorities.
- Perkins LEAs or consortia meeting the $15,000 requirement OR technology centers, technology center co-ops, postsecondary institutions, or consortia meeting the $50,000 requirement are eligible to complete the grant application.
- Application deadline is currently listed as May 3, 2024 (subject to change).
**NEW** Multisensory Math Training
Multisensory Math Training Presented by Hydeparkday Training, in collaboration with Marilyn Zercher
A two-day Multisensory Math Training appropriate for grades PreK-4th grade and SPED teachers on March 1-2, 2024 in Oklahoma City.
Attendees receive:
- Multisensory manipulative materials
- A curriculum scope and sequence, including Background and Theory/ Research Rationale on Multisensory Math, including knowledge of precursor numeracy skills through operations of algebraic thinking, geometry, mathematical practices, and fractions.
- Access to training presentation materials
- A certificate of course completion
For more information and registration, please see Multisensory Math Training.
NDPC offers online courses in each of the 15 research-based Effective Strategies for Dropout Prevention. The 15 Effective Strategies are recognized as the highest-impact interventions for graduation rate improvement. Each online course takes participants through an exploration of what the strategy is, how it fits within the 15 Effective Strategies model, and the research supporting it, allowing participants to envision for themselves how the strategy can be implemented well within their schools and communities. Participants investigate successful implementations across the country, potential benefits and barriers to implementing the strategy, and key implementation characteristics to consider in setting up their programs. Each course costs $99 except for the overview course, which costs $149.00. Each self-paced course takes 60 to 120 minutes, except for the overview course, which takes about 6 hours to complete.
Project 613 Funds are available for the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) Online Courses in each of the 15 research-based Effective Strategies for Dropout PreventionFor more information and a list of courses, visit Online Professional Development in Dropout Prevention Strategies.
The Oklahoma Autism Center is offering Professional Development Opportunities for 2023-2024 including:
- Autism: Foundation Training
- Reducing Challenging Behaviors
- Conducting FBA and Writing BIP's
Please see the OAC Professional Development Opportunities for more information.
Special Education Services
Oklahoma State Department of Education
2500 North Lincoln Boulevard, Suite 412
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105
P: (405) 521-3351 F: (405) 522-2380
SDESpecialEducation@sde.ok.gov
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Oklahoma ABLE Tech - Vol. 2, Issue 1
Every year Oklahoma ABLE Tech works to enhance assistive technology (AT) services for people with disabilities in the state. In the federal fiscal year 2023 (FFY23), ABLE Tech received $504,673 from the Administration for Community Living of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help Oklahomans access and acquire needed AT as well as provide training, technical assistance, public awareness, and information and assistance to those in need. These funds, coupled with $1.49 million in leveraged dollars, resulted in savings and benefits to Oklahomans which totaled $4.18 million! Over 38,702 individuals participated in ABLE Tech’s programs and services this year.
We are so thankful to all agencies and organizations who partnered with us to enhance AT services for people with disabilities including:
- Administration for Community Living (ACL) Public Health Workforce
- Department of Human Services, Developmental Disabilities Services (DDS)
- Developmental Disabilities Council of Oklahoma (DDCO)
- National Accessible Educational Materials (AEM) Center
- National Assistive Technology Act Technical Assistance and Training (AT3)
- Oklahoma Area Agencies on Aging (AAA) – COEDD, INCOG, KEDDO
- Oklahoma Assistive Technology Foundation (OkAT)
- Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services (DRS)
- Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA)
- Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE)
- Southwest Americans with Disabilities Act Center (SWADA)
Thank you to each of our partners for their collaborations and help in making 2023 another outstanding year!
February is Low Vision Awareness Month! Millions of people in the United States live with visual impairments that cannot be addressed with glasses, contacts, medicine, or surgery. Visual impairments can make it difficult to independently complete everyday activities like reading, cooking, learning, or working. Check out these Vision AT devices that our AT specialists are especially excited to share!
- Poke A Dot Jumbo Number Learning Cards - These are number flashcards for learners with low vision. They are jumbo-sized, brightly colored with a high contrast, and have a tactile popping element.
- Low Vision Cutting Board - One side is black, and one side is white, so you can choose your contrast level when slicing food. This device can be used alongside the SafeSlice fingerguard!
- Compact 10 HD Magnifier - This is a lightweight and portable electronic magnifier. It has a 10-inch touchscreen with adjustable magnification.
- EZ See Keyboard - A classic! This keyboard is large, has jumbo print on the keys, and has high color contrast.
Please keep in mind, AT devices are not a one-size-fits-all solution. If you'd like to set up an AT demonstration to find a device that is an appropriate match to your needs, please visit our AT Consultations webpage!
If you have enabling technology questions, we have answers.
The team at Oklahoma ABLE Tech is excited to announce the official grand opening of the Stillwater Smart Home Demonstration Space in the Seretean Wellness Center on the OSU Campus. We're excited to share this space with you and invite you to join us for an Open House to learn how enabling technologies, assistive technology (AT), and durable medical equipment (DME) can help individuals with disabilities be more independent in their homes.
3:00 to 6:00 pm
February 13, 2024
Oklahoma ABLE Tech
1514 W. Hall of Fame Stillwater, OK 74078
Similar to the Oklahoma City site we opened last year, the Stillwater Smart Home space allows individuals, their families, and service providers the opportunity to:
- compare the features and benefits of particular enabling technology devices, AT devices and services, and DME
- see, touch, and try multiple devices to help in the decision-making process with hands-on exploration
- receive information on the latest technology, low-tech solutions, and environmental adaptations
We'd love to see you there! If you plan to come, RSVP to help us get an appropriate headcount.
RSVP HERE!Bob and Jane of Muskogee County needed to purchase new hearing aids to help them hear and understand their grandchildren and great-grandchildren when they were speaking with them.
ABLE Tech's low-interest Financial Loan Program provided them with a low-interest loan to make the purchase.
Bob and Jane commented, “We plan to enjoy visiting with family and friends by being able to hear them better.”
The Financial Loan Program’s low interest rates can help to make durable medical equipment and assistive technology purchases affordable. To apply for a loan, go to the ABLE Tech's Financial Loan Page or visit the Oklahoma Assistive Technology Foundation's website.
On January 18, Oklahoma ABLE Tech staff conducted the first session of our recurring, three-part workshop series designed to develop participants’ knowledge, skills, and competencies related to assistive technology (AT). In Part 1 of the series, participants examined the process for considering AT for students with disabilities. Additionally, Part 1 included reviewing the Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology (QIAT), specific legal requirements, an overview of the 10 AT categories, and resources for no-, low-, and light-tech Make ‘n Takes.
There were more than 80 attendees including in-service teachers, administrators, and related service providers from across Oklahoma.
Participants shared their eagerness to begin implementing what they learned during the course:
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"I'm a new SPED teacher and have learned many things from this webinar, all being beneficial."
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"[I will be] Implementing documentation of AT consideration into the IEPs."
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"Great information, will be passing along to SPED director and other colleagues."
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"[I will] have the Big East form ready for any student that needs to be considered for AT."
Mark your calendars for Part 2 of the workshop series scheduled for February 15, 2024. In this session, participants will learn the steps involved in conducting an assistive technology (AT) assessment. We are excited to offer two options for Part 2: in-person in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and virtually via Zoom. For those attending in person, this allows attendees to have hands-on experience with multiple AT devices. Learn more about the two options and register online! You need NOT have attended Part 1 to register for Part 2. We look forward to seeing you in February!
For additional information or if you have questions, contact Dr. Joshua Hawkins at Oklahoma ABLE Tech.
Continued collaborations for additional opportunities and grant funding for durable medical equipment (DME) and AT for independence in the home!
The Kiamichi Economic Development District of Oklahoma (KEDDO), Indian Nations Council of Governments (INCOG), and Central Oklahoma Economic Development District (COEDD) Area Agencies on Aging (AAA) have partnered with ABLE Tech to provide Masonic Grant funds for qualifying residents who reside in their respective counties. Through this partnership, ABLE Tech’s Device Reutilization Program is assisting recipients in the purchase of needed assistive technology (AT) and durable medical equipment (DME).
To qualify for the Masonic Grant funds, individuals must live in one of the AAA specific counties, be 55 years of age or older, be of low to moderate income, and have a need for AT and DME to maintain an independent lifestyle. Once the individuals no longer need the purchased equipment, it is intended for those items to be donated back to the Device Reutilization Program for use by another individual who needs such items.
- COEDD - Hughes, Lincoln, Okfuskee, Pawnee, Payne, Pottawatomie, and Seminole counties
- INCOG - Tulsa, Creek, and Osage counties
- KEDDO - Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCuratin, Pittsburg, and Pushmataha counties
To learn more about the grant funds, or to see if you qualify, please contact the ABLE Tech Device Reutilization Office at 405-967-6010 or email atreuse@okstate.edu.
We're so excited to announce more of our speakers for TechAccess. This conference lineup is stacked, if we do say so ourselves– you won't want to miss this. Did we mention the conference registration is free?
Oklahoma's Premier Digital Accessibility Conference
February 27-29, 2024
Rose State College • Jeanie Webb Student Union, FNB Community Bank Ballroom
Lindsay Foster has over two decades of educational experience as an elementary classroom educator, a technology applications instructor, an instructional technology coach and coordinator, and instructional designer. Lindsey Morris is a learning experience designer who has worked in various educational settings, from K-12 to higher education and corporate training, providing her with a strong foundation in instructional design, project management, and universal design for learning (UDL). Lindsay and Lindsey will bring you a session called Join the Resistance: Gaining Stakeholder Buy-In at Your Organization, which will provide a humanistic perspective on accessibility best practices and implementation using personas.
Darren Denham is the Assistant Director of Digital Accessibility for the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) where he has worked with web content and accessibility since 2005, presenting technology in a manner that is approachable and easy to understand. Darren's session, Digital Accessibility: You're Not the Imposter You Think You Are, will instill in attendees a newfound confidence and practical knowledge to contribute to a more accessible digital landscape.
Glenda Sims (often called the Goodwitch of A11y) is the Chief Information Accessibility Officer at Deque, where she shares her expertise and passion for the open web with .gov, .edu, .org, and .com, and co-founded axe-con, the world's largest digital accessibility conference. Glenda aims to help us prepare for the future of AI in accessibility with her session, Accessibility and the 3 Bears of AI.
In-person spots are filling quickly! Check out the schedule and session details on our website!
Did you know you can quickly enlarge text and images on almost any website with just a few easy steps? Read on to find out how!
The screenshots below were taken in Chrome, but this also works in Edge and Firefox too.
1. Go to any website.
2. Open your browser’s settings menu.
3. Look for the Zoom setting in the menu.
4. Use the Plus and Minus buttons in the menu to increase or decrease the zoom level by one step.
And… that’s it! Keep selecting that Plus button to go even bigger!
But we hear you, you’re too busy to bother with clunky menus. You want to go fast! Try these shortcuts instead to skip straight to Step 4 above!
- Hold CTRL, and use the Plus key on your keyboard to zoom in, or the Minus key to zoom out.
- Hold CTRL, and scroll your mouse wheel up to zoom in, and down to zoom out.
How’s that for fast? Have fun with it, but don’t let all that power go to your head.
These webinars are free and take place on Zoom Wednesdays from noon to 1:30 p.m. Registration is available online. The 2024 webinars will start with a three-part series entitled So You Think You Want to File a Due Process Hearing Request.
Many people find due process hearing in Special Education a mystery. Jo Anne Blades, J.D., hopes to help you solve that. The webinars do not contain every piece of information one needs to navigate the process, but Due Process will be explained in a way that may make more sense! Parents are most often making the filing, so Sharon Coppedge Long, Director of the Oklahoma Parent Center, will be assisting Jo Anne Blades and Allison Fennell Conch with the presentation.
- Part 1, Initial Considerations, will be presented Jan. 24, 2024.
- Part 2, Getting Ready for the Hearing, will be presented on Jan. 31, 2024.
- Part 3, What Happens at the Hearing? will be presented on Feb. 14, 2024.
For more information and to register for the 2024 webinars, visit the SERC webinars webpage.
SERC’s mission is to help school districts and parents resolve disputes at the earliest stage possible. To learn more about SERC, visit their website.
The Oklahoma Rehabilitation Council (ORC) is pleased to share the FFY23 ORC Annual Report. This report represents the dedication and hard work of all members of the Council. All goals and objectives for this year were met or will be continued in FFY24.
Download the report on ORC’s website.
We hope you use this report as a resource and share it with others if you have the opportunity.
If you have any questions or need more information, please contact the ORC.
ORC's mission is to facilitate consumer education and empowerment, to assure services are of high quality and lead to the employment of individuals with disabilities within Oklahoma. To learn more about ORC, visit their website.
The Oklahoma State Department of Education and the Oklahoma Department of Health partner to provide the SoonerStart Early Intervention Program. Oklahoma ABLE Tech partners with SoonerStart to provide assistive technology (AT) to infants and toddlers, ages birth to three, with disabilities. ABLE Tech provides AT to SoonerStart teams in the form of assessment kits. SoonerStart uses these kits when working with families. The goal is to increase access to and acquisition of AT that may benefit children with disabilities in the SoonerStart program.
Cleveland County Success Story
The Cleveland County SoonerStart team has earned the Second Quarter Recognition Award! The team will receive new AT to add to their demonstration kit!
To learn more about SoonerStart and AT for Early Intervention, visit our collaboration webpage!
Special Education Services
Oklahoma State Department of Education
2500 North Lincoln Boulevard, Suite 412
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105
P: (405) 521-3351 F: (405) 522-3503
SDESpecialEducation@sde.ok.gov
Categories: specialed
OSDE - SES - January 30, 2024 - Internal
- Updated Transition Early Childhood Enrollment Guidance now available. Includes update on soft enrollment and information that is required.
- New Early Childhood Special Education Referral Guidance. Guides parents and others through process of requesting initial eligibility evaluation.
- Early Transition Practices: Best Practices
- Early Childhood Transition: Part C to Part B
- PowerPoint Slide Deck now available for districts. This presentation includes the updates to the early childhood transition process announced in 2023.
- If a district has been identified as needing to address indicator 12, reviewing the recording and slide deck should be reviewed as part of their PD plan for their toolkit.
- Additional data quality tools are now available to support districts reviewing indicator 7/Early Childhood Outcomes data. These tools are available as resources to support districts, not required.
- A new District Indicator 7 Spreadsheet is available to support districts reviewing ECOs at both the individual and district level.
- District may also choose to complete one or more self-assessments related to five ECO areas
District Level OAAP Participation – Justification Survey
If your district is anticipating more than 1.0 percent of your testing population (Grades 3-8, and 11) will participate in the OAAP/DLM testing in the 2024 spring operational window, the survey: “2024 Justification for Exceeding 1.0 % in OAAP Participation” must be completed online by March 1, 2024.
If your district is not expecting to exceed the cap, no action is required. The survey is designed to be completed by someone at the administrative level with special education and state testing knowledge. It may be completed by either the District Testing Coordinator, Special Education Director, or someone in a similar position.
High Needs Memo
New memorandum regarding changes and updates to the application for High Needs, Tier I and Tier II. Please contact your finance specialist for any assistance
All IDEA ARP fund expenditure reports must be submitted to OSDE-SES by January 28, 2024.
If assistance is needed, please contact your finance specialist.
Alternate Diploma Updates
Based on new legislation, Oklahoma has a new graduation pathway for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. The new state-defined alternate diploma is available for the school year 2023-2034. Following graduation, students who graduate with an alternate diploma must be afforded a Free Appropriate Public Education through the school year in which the student turns 22 years of age. This change will require districts to provide additional services through the Extended Secondary Transition Program. More information is available regarding the following:
- Guide for Allowable Core Substitutions & Oklahoma State Board of Education Approved List of Allowable Substitutions for Life Skills and Career Readiness
- Mini Maps: Geography
- Mini Maps: Oklahoma History
- Mini Maps: US Government
- Mini Map: Career Readiness
- Mini Map: Life Skills
- Combined Alternate Standards
- Alternate Diploma Exit & Entry Code Flow Chart
- Project 618 Funding for Transition Program
- Alternate Diploma Checklist
- Alternate Diploma Codes & Descriptions
- ICAP for Students with Significant (Support) Needs
- Alternate Diploma Guidance Brief
The Oklahoma State Department of Education, Office of Special Education Services will continue to hold Secondary Transition/Alternate Diploma Collaborative meetings monthly beginning in August.
Zoom meetings will typically be held on the 4th Thursday of each month at 3:00 p.m., except for holidays/school vacation weeks.
The schedule of monthly sessions and known topics are listed below:
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February 22, 2024 @ 3:00 p.m.
- OK's Got Talent with Moore Public Schools Whitney Green, Academic Resource Coordinator
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March 28, 2024 @ 3:00 p.m.
- Special Olympics Unified Sports – Meg Corn, Special Olympics Oklahoma & Mustang Public Schools
Join us via Zoom for all sessions scheduled.
Meeting ID: 160 702 2023 Passcode: 393839OSDE-SES is providing Transition Technical Assistance through a temporary, part-time Secondary Transition Program Specialist. Assistance to schools/districts will be available through various formats to include e-mail, phone, virtual (via Microsoft Teams) and/or in-person. Please use this link to complete a Transition Technical Assistance Request for your school/district regarding Secondary Transition topics, including the new Alternate Diploma and 18-22 Transition Programs. For brief questions and/or more information about Transition Technical Assistance, please contact Claudia Beckner or Lori Chesnut.
OKMTSS Community of Practice
The State Personnel Development Grant presents the Oklahoma Multi-Tiered System of Supports Community of Practice. This monthly session follows the SPDG's asynchronous professional development sequence available on OSDEConnect.
This session will focus on how to plan for intervention and system fidelity using feedback loops.
We look forward to having you attend the event on February 1, 2024 at 9:00 AM!
The Oklahoma School for the Deaf is pleased to present the 2024 statewide Deaf Education Conference.
Professionals in the field of deaf education will come together, engage in dynamic workshops, connect with colleagues, and identify pathways to empowering students through access, language, and literacy. Attendees will include early interventionists, early childhood specialists, teachers of the deaf, and educational interpreters.
The pre-conference will be held June 3-4, 2024. The conference will be held June 5-6, 2024.Registration is now open.
**NEW** Paraprofessional Conference
The Oklahoma State Department of Education, Office of Special Education Services will be holding their 2nd Annual Paraprofessional Conference in 4 locations around the state. We have also created a Paraprofessional Website for the 2023-2024 Conference with all information regarding the conference.
- February 16th in Enid, Oklahoma - Register Now!
- March 1st in Wetumka, Oklahoma - Register Now!
Registration is now OPEN for districts to send their paraprofessionals or other support staff to attend the 2nd Annual Paraprofessional Conference for their yearly 6 hours of Professional Development. Make sure you register for the ONE location you would like to attend before all the spots are filled! Seats are limited!
REMEMBER TO PRINT YOUR TICKET.Districts can use Project 613 funds to pay for substitutes, travel, and lodging. Lodging must be over 60 miles.
NOTE: The dates of the conferences in the Fall of 2023 and Spring of 2024 may interfere with some districts Fall and Spring breaks. The city, date and venues of the conferences were selected before the districts school calendars were made public. Thank you for understanding and we hope to see your support staff at one of the locations of the Paraprofessional Conferences.
If you have any questions/concerns please contact Megan Salisbury and/or Abby Johnson.
The Oklahoma State Department of Education, Office of Special Education Services will be holding their CPI 2-day Regional Trainings for you to send 4 employees to get blue card certified.
ONLY 40 people will be able to attend each session, so make sure you register ASAP! Waiting lists have been opened for spots that are sold out.NOTE: A waitlist has opened for the sessions, if the session is full follow the link to join the waitlist.
2024 - Second Semester -
- February 8-9, 2024 - Lawton, Oklahoma - Bishop Public Schools, Gym
- February 22-23, 2024 - Tulsa, Oklahoma - Tulsa Tech, Riverside Campus
- March 14-15, 2024 - Afton, Oklahoma - Northeast Technology - Afton Campus
- April 11-12, 2024 - Guymon, Oklahoma - Guymon Jr. High
CPI is approved through Project 613 for substitutes, travel, and lodging. Keep in mind lodging must be at least 60 miles one way. Questions can be directed to Megan Salisbury.
**NEW** Secondary Transition for Students with Disabilities
The Secondary Transition for Students with Disabilities self-paced course has been released and is now open for enrollment in OSDE Connect. This course is recommended for teachers/providers who are new to secondary transition and as a refresher for experienced staff. There are great links and resources contained in the course. Participants will receive a certificate of completion. This is also a recommended pre-requisite for participants in enrolled in the upcoming Secondary Transition (Severe/Profound): Assessment Results to Develop Meaningful Transition Plans for Students who Participate in the OAAP on February 27th in Oklahoma City, as well as the sessions for Mild/Moderate and Severe/Profound in the Tulsa area in May.
The course can be accessed directly Secondary Transition for Students with Disabilities.
The OSDE-SES is pleased to offer five regional trainings to empower educators to effectively teach transition skills and monitor student progress. This training will demonstrate how to implement effective instructional practices to teach transition skills to students with significant cognitive and adaptive disabilities who participate in the Oklahoma Alternate Assessment Program (OAAP). Special educators and paraprofessionals will learn to use data collection, task analysis (forward and backward chaining), and prompting (when and how to use prompts, how to fade prompts) to enable students to make progress toward their postsecondary and annual transition goals.
- 2/1/2024 - Woodward, Oklahoma
- 2/29/2024 - Lawton, Oklahoma
NDPC offers online courses in each of the 15 research-based Effective Strategies for Dropout Prevention. The 15 Effective Strategies are recognized as the highest-impact interventions for graduation rate improvement. Each online course takes participants through an exploration of what the strategy is, how it fits within the 15 Effective Strategies model, and the research supporting it, allowing participants to envision for themselves how the strategy can be implemented well within their schools and communities. Participants investigate successful implementations across the country, potential benefits and barriers to implementing the strategy, and key implementation characteristics to consider in setting up their programs. Each course costs $99 except for the overview course, which costs $149.00. Each self-paced course takes 60 to 120 minutes, except for the overview course, which takes about 6 hours to complete.
Project 613 Funds are available for the NDPC Online Courses!For more information and a list of courses, visit Online Professional Development in Dropout Prevention Strategies.
This training will focus on using assessment results to develop meaningful transition plans for students with severve/profound disabilities.
Participants will:
- Learn to incorporate transition assessment results into the IEP
- Review case studies
- Analyze transition assessment results
- Use assessment results to identify specific transition strengths and needs and develop postsecondary goals, annual transition goals, services, coordinated activities, and courses of study.
- February 27 from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (check-in begins at 8:30 am) at Francis Tuttle (RENO CAMPUS), Oklahoma City
- May 8 from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (check-in begins at 8:30 am) at Central Technology Center, Sapulpa
This training will focus on using assessment results to develop meaningful transition plans for students with mild/moderate disabilities.
Participants will:
- Learn to incorporate transition assessment results into the IEP
- Review case studies
- Analyze transition assessment results
- Use assessment results to identify specific transition strengths and needs and develop postsecondary goals, annual transition goals, services, coordinated activities, and courses of study.
- May 7 from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (check-in begins at 8:30 am) at Central Technology Center, Sapulpa
Educational Interpreter Registry
If your district employs educational interpreters, please verify that they are on the OSDE Educational Interpreter Registry. All interpreters in an educational setting are required to be on the registry and are required to obtain yearly CEUs.
Special Education Services
Oklahoma State Department of Education
2500 North Lincoln Boulevard, Suite 412
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105
P: (405) 521-3351 F: (405) 522-2380
SDESpecialEducation@sde.ok.gov
Categories: specialed
OSDE - SES - January 25, 2024 - External
The Developmental Disabilities Council of Oklahoma is hosting their annual Oklahoma Youth Leadership Forum (YLF) in June 2024. YLF is a great self-advocacy and self-determination learning opportunity for youth with disabilities! It is an educational, fun-filled, motivational, and packed week of experiences like no other! Check out the YLF Brochure and learn more about this event on the Oklahoma YLE page and encourage students and families to APPLY for YLF NOW!
*Applications are due March 1, 2024.Many agencies, organizations and businesses across Oklahoma provide tuition assistance benefits to help their employees pay for higher education. Types of education benefits for employees vary, and may include:
- Tuition payment assistance or reimbursement.
- Payment/reimbursement for licensing courses and exams.
- Matched contributions to employer-sponsored 529 college savings plan.
- Student loan repayment.
Some employers that offer educational benefit options require a minimum waiting period for eligibility, some set a maximum benefit amount, and some may extend educational benefits to employee dependents. Please visit our alphabetical list of some Oklahoma employers that offer tuition assistance benefits for employees. For more specific and comprehensive information, contact the employer directly.
**NEW** Alternate Diploma - Myths and Facts
Learn about the graduation pathway for students who participate in the Alternative Assessment Program. Learn how to access FAPE until age 22.
Join us on January 30, 2024 at 6:00 PM.For more information and to register, please see the Alternate Diploma. Also available in Spanish.
Sooner Works is the inclusive postsecondary education program at the University of Oklahoma for students with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
For the application portal, please visit the application overview packet.
Applications are due February 1st.Sooner Works will also be hosting two more Virtual Open Houses via Zoom where any interested student, parent, or educator can learn more about the program and meet our staff.
For more information and registration, please see Virtual Open Houses.
This course fulfills the requirements listed in 70 O.S § 1210.284: Vision Screening - Recommendations on Standards - Comprehensive Eye Exam on Failure - Annual Reports.
Vision Screening Provider Training-- OKC: Feb 8, 2024, 9AM-12PM
- Glenpool (Tulsa Area): Feb 15, 2024, 9AM - 12PM
- OKC, Feb 8, 2024: 1PM - 4PM
- Glenpool (Tulsa Area): Feb 15, 2024 1PM - 4PM
If you have any questions, please send them to Kellie Carter
LAMP is an augmentative alternative communication (AAC) approach designed to give individuals who are nonverbal or have limited verbal abilities a method of independently expressing themselves through the use of speech-generating device. There is no cognitive prerequisites for implementing the LAMP approach. Please join us February 29, 2024 - March 1, 2024.
For more information, please see the LAMP Flyer and Brochure.
Each year at the CEC Convention & Expo, thousands of special education professionals from around the world come together to learn, share, grow, and connect. With hundreds of sessions on just about every topic in the field, the CEC Convention & Expo is THE professional development event for special educators to find research, tips, and strategies to support students with disabilities and/or gifts and talents.
We want to make sure your teachers, administrators, principals, and support personnel have the chance to attend the biggest special event of the year. That’s why we’re offering all Oklahoma residents a special offer for $70 off registration. All they need to do is use code OKLAHOMA24 when registering to save.
Please share this information with your district, division, and area administrators and encourage them to take advantage of this special offer through January 31, 2024.
Please join us March 13-16, 2024. For more information, view the CEC 2024 Convention & Expo Website.
- “Supporting CTE Special Populations Grant Application 2024-2026” is now available for review and will open in March 2024!!! Check it out and begin planning in advance for an opportunity to be awarded a two-year grant (up to $50,000/year) aimed at helping schools implement transition programs and/or other support strategies to assist in the provision of transferable skill sets to students regarding the attainment of meaningful employment and becoming productive members of society!!!
- The Supporting CTE Special Populations Overview (oklahoma.gov) outlines the requirements for the 2024-2026 grant application and required goal priorities.
- Perkins LEAs or consortia meeting the $15,000 requirement OR technology centers, technology center co-ops, postsecondary institutions, or consortia meeting the $50,000 requirement are eligible to complete the grant application.
- Application deadline is currently listed as May 3, 2024 (subject to change).
**NEW** Multisensory Math Training
Multisensory Math Training Presented by Hydeparkday Training, in collaboration with Marilyn Zercher
A two-day Multisensory Math Training appropriate for grades PreK-4th grade and SPED teachers on March 1-2, 2024 in Oklahoma City.
Attendees receive:
- Multisensory manipulative materials
- A curriculum scope and sequence, including Background and Theory/ Research Rationale on Multisensory Math, including knowledge of precursor numeracy skills through operations of algebraic thinking, geometry, mathematical practices, and fractions.
- Access to training presentation materials
- A certificate of course completion
For more information and registration, please see Multisensory Math Training.
NDPC offers online courses in each of the 15 research-based Effective Strategies for Dropout Prevention. The 15 Effective Strategies are recognized as the highest-impact interventions for graduation rate improvement. Each online course takes participants through an exploration of what the strategy is, how it fits within the 15 Effective Strategies model, and the research supporting it, allowing participants to envision for themselves how the strategy can be implemented well within their schools and communities. Participants investigate successful implementations across the country, potential benefits and barriers to implementing the strategy, and key implementation characteristics to consider in setting up their programs. Each course costs $99 except for the overview course, which costs $149.00. Each self-paced course takes 60 to 120 minutes, except for the overview course, which takes about 6 hours to complete.
Project 613 Funds are available for the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) Online Courses in each of the 15 research-based Effective Strategies for Dropout PreventionFor more information and a list of courses, visit Online Professional Development in Dropout Prevention Strategies.
The Oklahoma Autism Center is offering Professional Development Opportunities for 2023-2024 including:
- Autism: Foundation Training
- Reducing Challenging Behaviors
- Conducting FBA and Writing BIP's
Please see the OAC Professional Development Opportunities for more information.
Special Education Services
Oklahoma State Department of Education
2500 North Lincoln Boulevard, Suite 412
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105
P: (405) 521-3351 F: (405) 522-2380
SDESpecialEducation@sde.ok.gov
Categories: specialed
OSDE - SES - January 23, 2024 - Internal
- Updated Transition Early Childhood Enrollment Guidance now available. Includes update on soft enrollment and information that is required.
- New Early Childhood Special Education Referral Guidance. Guides parents and others through process of requesting initial eligibility evaluation.
- Early Transition Practices: Best Practices
- Early Childhood Transition: Part C to Part B
- PowerPoint Slide Deck now available for districts. This presentation includes the updates to the early childhood transition process announced in 2023.
- If a district has been identified as needing to address indicator 12, reviewing the recording and slide deck should be reviewed as part of their PD plan for their toolkit.
- Additional data quality tools are now available to support districts reviewing indicator 7/Early Childhood Outcomes data. These tools are available as resources to support districts, not required.
- A new District Indicator 7 Spreadsheet is available to support districts reviewing ECOs at both the individual and district level.
- District may also choose to complete one or more self-assessments related to five ECO areas
District Level OAAP Participation – Justification Survey
If your district is anticipating more than 1.0 percent of your testing population (Grades 3-8, and 11) will participate in the OAAP/DLM testing in the 2024 spring operational window, the survey: “2024 Justification for Exceeding 1.0 % in OAAP Participation” must be completed online by March 1, 2024.
If your district is not expecting to exceed the cap, no action is required. The survey is designed to be completed by someone at the administrative level with special education and state testing knowledge. It may be completed by either the District Testing Coordinator, Special Education Director, or someone in a similar position.
**NEW** High Needs Memo
New memorandum regarding changes and updates to the application for High Needs, Tier I and Tier II. Please contact your finance specialist for any assistance
All IDEA ARP fund expenditure reports must be submitted to OSDE-SES by January 28, 2024.
If assistance is needed, please contact your finance specialist.
Alternate Diploma Updates
Based on new legislation, Oklahoma has a new graduation pathway for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. The new state-defined alternate diploma is available for the school year 2023-2034. Following graduation, students who graduate with an alternate diploma must be afforded a Free Appropriate Public Education through the school year in which the student turns 22 years of age. This change will require districts to provide additional services through the Extended Secondary Transition Program. More information is available regarding the following:
- Guide for Allowable Core Substitutions & Oklahoma State Board of Education Approved List of Allowable Substitutions for Life Skills and Career Readiness
- Mini Maps: Geography
- Mini Maps: Oklahoma History
- Mini Maps: US Government
- Mini Map: Career Readiness
- Mini Map: Life Skills
- Combined Alternate Standards
- Alternate Diploma Exit & Entry Code Flow Chart
- Project 618 Funding for Transition Program
- Alternate Diploma Checklist
- Alternate Diploma Codes & Descriptions
- ICAP for Students with Significant (Support) Needs
- Alternate Diploma Guidance Brief
The Oklahoma State Department of Education, Office of Special Education Services will continue to hold Secondary Transition/Alternate Diploma Collaborative meetings monthly beginning in August.
Zoom meetings will typically be held on the 4th Thursday of each month at 3:00 p.m., except for holidays/school vacation weeks.
The schedule of monthly sessions and known topics are listed below:
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January 25, 2024 @ 3:00 p.m.
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Inclusive Post Secondary Education (IPSE!): Preparation, Pathway and Potential! Julie Lackey, Oklahoma IPSE Alliance
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February 22, 2024 @ 3:00 p.m.
- OK's Got Talent with Moore Public Schools Whitney Green, Academic Resource Coordinator
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March 28, 2024 @ 3:00 p.m.
- Special Olympics Unified Sports – Meg Corn, Special Olympics Oklahoma & Mustang Public Schools
Join us via Zoom for all sessions scheduled.
Meeting ID: 160 702 2023 Passcode: 393839OSDE-SES is providing Transition Technical Assistance through a temporary, part-time Secondary Transition Program Specialist. Assistance to schools/districts will be available through various formats to include e-mail, phone, virtual (via Microsoft Teams) and/or in-person. Please use this link to complete a Transition Technical Assistance Request for your school/district regarding Secondary Transition topics, including the new Alternate Diploma and 18-22 Transition Programs. For brief questions and/or more information about Transition Technical Assistance, please contact Claudia Beckner or Lori Chesnut.
**NEW** January EdPlan Trainings!
The January EDPlan Schedule and Registration links can be accessed from EDPlan ‘Home’ page in the 'Documents' panel and under the blue 'Help Links' tab.
Each training is scheduled for 2 hours. Below is a list of the different trainings:
- Introduction to EDPlan -This training is recommended for new users prior to other process training such as the Eligibility Process, IEP Process and Section 504 Process.
- EDPlan Administrator Training – This training is recommended for new EDPlan Administrators and will cover responsibilities in EDPlan including impersonation rights, calendar set- up, reporting periods, how to add and remove staff, caseloads, updating the district calendar, etc.
- Eligibility Process – This training is recommended for new users responsible for Eligibility Determination Process. This training will cover Introduction to the Eligibility Process in EdPlan, how to complete the RED, how to complete the Parent Consent, Documenting Assessments, how to complete a MEEGS and running reports.
- IEP Process - This training is recommended for new users responsible for Student IEP’s and will cover creating a compliant IEP in EdPlan, organizing the student caseload, IEP-at-a- Glance, how to Batch Print and creating a contact log
- 504 Process - This training is recommended for new users responsible for 504 Eligibility and 504 Student Plans. This training will cover documenting 504 Eligibility in EDPlan creating a 504 Student Plan and batch printing.
- Goal Progress Monitoring and Progress Reports - This training is recommended for new users responsible for documenting progress of goals and objectives in EDPlan. The training will cover documenting progress for goals and objectives, creating progress graphs, reports, and progress reports.
The 2024 OKMTSS Winter Conference will be focusing on Evidence-Based Practices with sessions in a "workshop" format to teach practices for quality teaming, literacy and math instruction, and behavior intervention.
For more information, please see the 2024 OKMTSS Flyer.
The State Personnel Development Grant presents the Oklahoma Multi-Tiered System of Supports Community of Practice. This monthly session follows the SPDG's asynchronous professional development sequence available on OSDEConnect.
This session will focus on how to plan for intervention and system fidelity using feedback loops.
We look forward to having you attend the event on February 1, 2024 at 9:00 AM!
The Oklahoma School for the Deaf is pleased to present the 2024 statewide Deaf Education Conference.
Professionals in the field of deaf education will come together, engage in dynamic workshops, connect with colleagues, and identify pathways to empowering students through access, language, and literacy. Attendees will include early interventionists, early childhood specialists, teachers of the deaf, and educational interpreters.
The pre-conference will be held June 3-4, 2024. The conference will be held June 5-6, 2024.Registration is now open.
NDPC offers online courses in each of the 15 research-based Effective Strategies for Dropout Prevention. The 15 Effective Strategies are recognized as the highest-impact interventions for graduation rate improvement. Each online course takes participants through an exploration of what the strategy is, how it fits within the 15 Effective Strategies model, and the research supporting it, allowing participants to envision for themselves how the strategy can be implemented well within their schools and communities. Participants investigate successful implementations across the country, potential benefits and barriers to implementing the strategy, and key implementation characteristics to consider in setting up their programs. Each course costs $99 except for the overview course, which costs $149.00. Each self-paced course takes 60 to 120 minutes, except for the overview course, which takes about 6 hours to complete.
Project 613 Funds are available for the NDPC Online Courses!For more information and a list of courses, visit Online Professional Development in Dropout Prevention Strategies.
CPI Trainings for 2023-2024 SY
The Oklahoma State Department of Education, Office of Special Education Services will be holding their CPI 2-day Regional Trainings for you to send 4 employees to get blue card certified.
ONLY 40 people will be able to attend each session, so make sure you register ASAP! Waiting lists have been opened for spots that are sold out.NOTE: A waitlist has opened for the sessions, if the session is full follow the link to join the waitlist.
2024 - Second Semester -
- February 22-23, 2024 - Tulsa, Oklahoma - Tulsa Tech, Riverside Campus
- February 8-9, 2024 - Lawton, Oklahoma - Bishop Public Schools, Gym
- March 14-15, 2024 - Afton, Oklahoma - Northeast Technology - Afton Campus
- April 11-12, 2024 - Guymon, Oklahoma - Guymon Jr. High
CPI is approved through Project 613 for substitutes, travel, and lodging. Keep in mind lodging must be at least 60 miles one way. Questions can be directed to Megan Salisbury.
Secondary Transition (M/M): Using Assessment Results to Develop Meaningful Transition Goals & Services for Students with Mild/Moderate Disabilities
This training will focus on using assessment results to develop meaningful transition plans for students with mild/moderate disabilities.
Participants will:
- Learn to incorporate transition assessment results into the IEP
- Review case studies
- Analyze transition assessment results
- Use assessment results to identify specific transition strengths and needs and develop postsecondary goals, annual transition goals, services, coordinated activities, and courses of study.
- May 7 from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (check-in begins at 8:30 am) at Central Technology Center, Sapulpa
This training will focus on using assessment results to develop meaningful transition plans for students with severve/profound disabilities.
Participants will:
- Learn to incorporate transition assessment results into the IEP
- Review case studies
- Analyze transition assessment results
- Use assessment results to identify specific transition strengths and needs and develop postsecondary goals, annual transition goals, services, coordinated activities, and courses of study.
- February 27 from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (check-in begins at 8:30 am) at Francis Tuttle (RENO CAMPUS), Oklahoma City
- May 8 from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (check-in begins at 8:30 am) at Central Technology Center, Sapulpa
The OSDE-SES is pleased to offer five regional trainings to empower educators to effectively teach transition skills and monitor student progress. This training will demonstrate how to implement effective instructional practices to teach transition skills to students with significant cognitive and adaptive disabilities who participate in the Oklahoma Alternate Assessment Program (OAAP). Special educators and paraprofessionals will learn to use data collection, task analysis (forward and backward chaining), and prompting (when and how to use prompts, how to fade prompts) to enable students to make progress toward their postsecondary and annual transition goals.
- 1/25/2024 - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- 2/1/2024 - Woodward, Oklahoma
- 2/29/2024 - Lawton, Oklahoma
Educational Interpreter Registry
If your district employs educational interpreters, please verify that they are on the OSDE Educational Interpreter Registry. All interpreters in an educational setting are required to be on the registry and are required to obtain yearly CEUs.
Special Education Services
Oklahoma State Department of Education
2500 North Lincoln Boulevard, Suite 412
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105
P: (405) 521-3351 F: (405) 522-2380
SDESpecialEducation@sde.ok.gov
Categories: specialed
OSDE - SES - January 16, 2024 - Internal
- Early Childhood Transition: Part C to Part B
- PowerPoint Slide Deck now available for districts. This presentation includes the updates to the early childhood transition process announced in 2023.
- If a district has been identified as needing to address indicator 12, reviewing the recording and slide deck should be reviewed as part of their PD plan for their toolkit.
- Additional data quality tools are now available to support districts reviewing indicator 7/Early Childhood Outcomes data. These tools are available as resources to support districts, not required.
- A new District Indicator 7 Spreadsheet is available to support districts reviewing ECOs at both the individual and district level.
- District may also choose to complete one or more self-assessments related to five ECO areas
OAAP Update
You can find the most updated OAAP information for the 2023-2024 school year in the OAAP Memo. Find and access information regarding the New First Contact Survey, OAAP resources for testing, professional development resources, and more in the memo.
If your district is anticipating more than 1.0 percent of your testing population (Grades 3-8, and 11) will participate in the OAAP/DLM testing in the 2024 spring operational window, the survey: “2024 Justification for Exceeding 1.0 % in OAAP Participation” must be completed online by March 1, 2024.
If your district is not expecting to exceed the cap, no action is required. The survey is designed to be completed by someone at the administrative level with special education and state testing knowledge. It may be completed by either the District Testing Coordinator, Special Education Director, or someone in a similar position.
IDEA ARP Fund
All IDEA ARP fund expenditure reports must be submitted to OSDE-SES by January 28, 2024.
If assistance is needed, please contact your finance specialist.
Alternate Diploma Updates
Based on new legislation, Oklahoma has a new graduation pathway for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. The new state-defined alternate diploma is available for the school year 2023-2034. Following graduation, students who graduate with an alternate diploma must be afforded a Free Appropriate Public Education through the school year in which the student turns 22 years of age. This change will require districts to provide additional services through the Extended Secondary Transition Program. More information is available regarding the following:
- Guide for Allowable Core Substitutions & Oklahoma State Board of Education Approved List of Allowable Substitutions for Life Skills and Career Readiness
- Mini Maps: Geography
- Mini Maps: Oklahoma History
- Mini Maps: US Government
- Mini Map: Career Readiness
- Mini Map: Life Skills
- Combined Alternate Standards
- Alternate Diploma Exit & Entry Code Flow Chart
- Project 618 Funding for Transition Program
- Alternate Diploma Checklist
- Alternate Diploma Codes & Descriptions
- ICAP for Students with Significant (Support) Needs
- Alternate Diploma Guidance Brief
The Oklahoma State Department of Education, Office of Special Education Services will continue to hold Secondary Transition/Alternate Diploma Collaborative meetings monthly beginning in August.
Zoom meetings will typically be held on the 4th Thursday of each month at 3:00 p.m., except for holidays/school vacation weeks.
The schedule of monthly sessions and known topics are listed below:
-
January 25, 2024 @ 3:00 p.m.
-
Inclusive Post Secondary Education (IPSE!): Preparation, Pathway and Potential! Julie Lackey, Oklahoma IPSE Alliance
-
-
February 22, 2024 @ 3:00 p.m.
- OK's Got Talent with Moore Public Schools Whitney Green, Academic Resource Coordinator
-
March 28, 2024 @ 3:00 p.m.
- Special Olympics Unified Sports – Meg Corn, Special Olympics Oklahoma & Mustang Public Schools
Join us via Zoom for all sessions scheduled.
Meeting ID: 160 702 2023 Passcode: 393839OSDE-SES is providing Transition Technical Assistance through a temporary, part-time Secondary Transition Program Specialist. Assistance to schools/districts will be available through various formats to include e-mail, phone, virtual (via Microsoft Teams) and/or in-person. Please use this link to complete a Transition Technical Assistance Request for your school/district regarding Secondary Transition topics, including the new Alternate Diploma and 18-22 Transition Programs. For brief questions and/or more information about Transition Technical Assistance, please contact Claudia Beckner or Lori Chesnut.
**NEW** January EdPlan Trainings!
The January EDPlan Schedule and Registration links can be accessed from EDPlan ‘Home’ page in the 'Documents' panel and under the blue 'Help Links' tab.
Each training is scheduled for 2 hours. Below is a list of the different trainings:
- Introduction to EDPlan -This training is recommended for new users prior to other process training such as the Eligibility Process, IEP Process and Section 504 Process.
- EDPlan Administrator Training – This training is recommended for new EDPlan Administrators and will cover responsibilities in EDPlan including impersonation rights, calendar set- up, reporting periods, how to add and remove staff, caseloads, updating the district calendar, etc.
- Eligibility Process – This training is recommended for new users responsible for Eligibility Determination Process. This training will cover Introduction to the Eligibility Process in EdPlan, how to complete the RED, how to complete the Parent Consent, Documenting Assessments, how to complete a MEEGS and running reports.
- IEP Process - This training is recommended for new users responsible for Student IEP’s and will cover creating a compliant IEP in EdPlan, organizing the student caseload, IEP-at-a- Glance, how to Batch Print and creating a contact log
- 504 Process - This training is recommended for new users responsible for 504 Eligibility and 504 Student Plans. This training will cover documenting 504 Eligibility in EDPlan creating a 504 Student Plan and batch printing.
- Goal Progress Monitoring and Progress Reports - This training is recommended for new users responsible for documenting progress of goals and objectives in EDPlan. The training will cover documenting progress for goals and objectives, creating progress graphs, reports, and progress reports.
Charting the Life Conference is a framework developed to help individuals with disabilities and families at any age or state of life think about what they need to know, identify how to find or develop supports, and discover what it takes to live the lives they want to live. Individuals and families may focus on their current situation and stage of life but may also find it helpful to look ahead to start thinking about what they can do or learn now that will help build an inclusive productive life in the future.
Join us on January 23, 2024 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM.
We hope you can join us for the 2024 Oklahoma Law Conference. This conference is designed for general and special education administrators and teachers, service providers, lawyers and others involved in developing and supporting special education services for children with disabilities and their families.
Most sessions will require attendees to have a background in special education procedures and practice in order to apply the information to work or advocacy responsibilities. Registration is complimentary.
January 23, 2024 9:00 AM to 4:00 PMThe 2024 OKMTSS Winter Conference will be focusing on Evidence-Based Practices with sessions in a "workshop" format to teach practices for quality teaming, literacy and math instruction, and behavior intervention.
For more information, please see the 2024 OKMTSS Flyer.
The State Personnel Development Grant presents the Oklahoma Multi-Tiered System of Supports Community of Practice. This monthly session follows the SPDG's asynchronous professional development sequence available on OSDEConnect.
This session will focus on how to plan for intervention and system fidelity using feedback loops.
We look forward to having you attend the event on February 1, 2024 at 9:00 AM!
The Oklahoma School for the Deaf is pleased to present the 2024 statewide Deaf Education Conference.
Professionals in the field of deaf education will come together, engage in dynamic workshops, connect with colleagues, and identify pathways to empowering students through access, language, and literacy. Attendees will include early interventionists, early childhood specialists, teachers of the deaf, and educational interpreters.
The pre-conference will be held June 3-4, 2024. The conference will be held June 5-6, 2024.Registration is now open.
NDPC offers online courses in each of the 15 research-based Effective Strategies for Dropout Prevention. The 15 Effective Strategies are recognized as the highest-impact interventions for graduation rate improvement. Each online course takes participants through an exploration of what the strategy is, how it fits within the 15 Effective Strategies model, and the research supporting it, allowing participants to envision for themselves how the strategy can be implemented well within their schools and communities. Participants investigate successful implementations across the country, potential benefits and barriers to implementing the strategy, and key implementation characteristics to consider in setting up their programs. Each course costs $99 except for the overview course, which costs $149.00. Each self-paced course takes 60 to 120 minutes, except for the overview course, which takes about 6 hours to complete.
Project 613 Funds are available for the NDPC Online Courses!For more information and a list of courses, visit Online Professional Development in Dropout Prevention Strategies.
CPI Trainings for 2023-2024 SY
The Oklahoma State Department of Education, Office of Special Education Services will be holding their CPI 2-day Regional Trainings for you to send 4 employees to get blue card certified.
ONLY 40 people will be able to attend each session, so make sure you register ASAP! Waiting lists have been opened for spots that are sold out.NOTE: A waitlist has opened for the sessions, if the session is full follow the link to join the waitlist.
2024 - Second Semester -
- February 22-23, 2024 - Tulsa, Oklahoma - Tulsa Tech, Riverside Campus
- February 8-9, 2024 - Lawton, Oklahoma - Bishop Public Schools, Gym
- March 14-15, 2024 - Afton, Oklahoma - Northeast Technology - Afton Campus
- April 11-12, 2024 - Guymon, Oklahoma - Guymon Jr. High
CPI is approved through Project 613 for substitutes, travel, and lodging. Keep in mind lodging must be at least 60 miles one way. Questions can be directed to Megan Salisbury.
Secondary Transition (M/M): Using Assessment Results to Develop Meaningful Transition Goals & Services for Students with Mild/Moderate Disabilities
This training will focus on using assessment results to develop meaningful transition plans for students with mild/moderate disabilities.
Participants will:
- Learn to incorporate transition assessment results into the IEP
- Review case studies
- Analyze transition assessment results
- Use assessment results to identify specific transition strengths and needs and develop postsecondary goals, annual transition goals, services, coordinated activities, and courses of study.
- January 18 from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (check-in begins at 8:30 am) at Francis Tuttle (RENO CAMPUS), Oklahoma City
- May 7 from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (check-in begins at 8:30 am) at Central Technology Center, Sapulpa
This training will focus on using assessment results to develop meaningful transition plans for students with severve/profound disabilities.
Participants will:
- Learn to incorporate transition assessment results into the IEP
- Review case studies
- Analyze transition assessment results
- Use assessment results to identify specific transition strengths and needs and develop postsecondary goals, annual transition goals, services, coordinated activities, and courses of study.
- February 27 from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (check-in begins at 8:30 am) at Francis Tuttle (RENO CAMPUS), Oklahoma City
- May 8 from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (check-in begins at 8:30 am) at Central Technology Center, Sapulpa
The OSDE-SES is pleased to offer five regional trainings to empower educators to effectively teach transition skills and monitor student progress. This training will demonstrate how to implement effective instructional practices to teach transition skills to students with significant cognitive and adaptive disabilities who participate in the Oklahoma Alternate Assessment Program (OAAP). Special educators and paraprofessionals will learn to use data collection, task analysis (forward and backward chaining), and prompting (when and how to use prompts, how to fade prompts) to enable students to make progress toward their postsecondary and annual transition goals.
- 1/25/2024 - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- 2/1/2024 - Woodward, Oklahoma
- 2/29/2024 - Lawton, Oklahoma
Educational Interpreter Registry
If your district employs educational interpreters, please verify that they are on the OSDE Educational Interpreter Registry. All interpreters in an educational setting are required to be on the registry and are required to obtain yearly CEUs.
Special Education Services
Oklahoma State Department of Education
2500 North Lincoln Boulevard, Suite 412
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105
P: (405) 521-3351 F: (405) 522-2380
SDESpecialEducation@sde.ok.gov
Categories: specialed
OSDE - SES - January 9, 2024 - Internal
If your district is anticipating more than 1.0 percent of your testing population (Grades 3-8, and 11) will participate in the OAAP/DLM testing in the 2024 spring operational window, the survey: “2024 Justification for Exceeding 1.0 % in OAAP Participation” must be completed online by March 1, 2024.
If your district is not expecting to exceed the cap, no action is required. The survey is designed to be completed by someone at the administrative level with special education and state testing knowledge. It may be completed by either the District Testing Coordinator, Special Education Director, or someone in a similar position.
IDEA ARP Fund
All IDEA ARP fund expenditure reports must be submitted to OSDE-SES by January 28, 2024.
If assistance is needed, please contact your finance specialist.
Alternate Diploma Updates
Based on new legislation, Oklahoma has a new graduation pathway for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. The new state-defined alternate diploma is available for the school year 2023-2034. Following graduation, students who graduate with an alternate diploma must be afforded a Free Appropriate Public Education through the school year in which the student turns 22 years of age. This change will require districts to provide additional services through the Extended Secondary Transition Program. More information is available regarding the following:
- Guide for Allowable Core Substitutions & Oklahoma State Board of Education Approved List of Allowable Substitutions for Life Skills and Career Readiness
- Mini Maps: Geography
- Mini Maps: Oklahoma History
- Mini Maps: US Government
- Mini Map: Career Readiness
- Mini Map: Life Skills
- Combined Alternate Standards
- Alternate Diploma Exit & Entry Code Flow Chart
- Project 618 Funding for Transition Program
- Alternate Diploma Checklist
- Alternate Diploma Codes & Descriptions
- ICAP for Students with Significant (Support) Needs
- Alternate Diploma Guidance Brief
The Oklahoma State Department of Education, Office of Special Education Services will continue to hold Secondary Transition/Alternate Diploma Collaborative meetings monthly beginning in August.
Zoom meetings will typically be held on the 4th Thursday of each month at 3:00 p.m., except for holidays/school vacation weeks.
The schedule of monthly sessions and known topics are listed below:
-
January 25, 2024 @ 3:00 p.m.
-
Inclusive Post Secondary Education (IPSE!): Preparation, Pathway and Potential! Julie Lackey, Oklahoma IPSE Alliance
-
-
February 22, 2024 @ 3:00 p.m.
- OK's Got Talent with Moore Public Schools Whitney Green, Academic Resource Coordinator
-
March 28, 2024 @ 3:00 p.m.
- Special Olympics Unified Sports – Meg Corn, Special Olympics Oklahoma & Mustang Public Schools
Join us via Zoom for all sessions scheduled.
Meeting ID: 160 702 2023 Passcode: 393839OSDE-SES is providing Transition Technical Assistance through a temporary, part-time Secondary Transition Program Specialist. Assistance to schools/districts will be available through various formats to include e-mail, phone, virtual (via Microsoft Teams) and/or in-person. Please use this link to complete a Transition Technical Assistance Request for your school/district regarding Secondary Transition topics, including the new Alternate Diploma and 18-22 Transition Programs. For brief questions and/or more information about Transition Technical Assistance, please contact Claudia Beckner or Lori Chesnut.
**NEW** January EdPlan Trainings!
The January EDPlan Schedule and Registration links can be accessed from EDPlan ‘Home’ page in the 'Documents' panel and under the blue 'Help Links' tab.
Each training is scheduled for 2 hours. Below is a list of the different trainings:
- Introduction to EDPlan -This training is recommended for new users prior to other process training such as the Eligibility Process, IEP Process and Section 504 Process.
- EDPlan Administrator Training – This training is recommended for new EDPlan Administrators and will cover responsibilities in EDPlan including impersonation rights, calendar set- up, reporting periods, how to add and remove staff, caseloads, updating the district calendar, etc.
- Eligibility Process – This training is recommended for new users responsible for Eligibility Determination Process. This training will cover Introduction to the Eligibility Process in EdPlan, how to complete the RED, how to complete the Parent Consent, Documenting Assessments, how to complete a MEEGS and running reports.
- IEP Process - This training is recommended for new users responsible for Student IEP’s and will cover creating a compliant IEP in EdPlan, organizing the student caseload, IEP-at-a- Glance, how to Batch Print and creating a contact log
- 504 Process - This training is recommended for new users responsible for 504 Eligibility and 504 Student Plans. This training will cover documenting 504 Eligibility in EDPlan creating a 504 Student Plan and batch printing.
- Goal Progress Monitoring and Progress Reports - This training is recommended for new users responsible for documenting progress of goals and objectives in EDPlan. The training will cover documenting progress for goals and objectives, creating progress graphs, reports, and progress reports.
Please join us for an informal discussion of chapters 5-8 of The Writing Rope, by Joan Seditia on Wednesday, January 10, 2024.
This is the second session in the series; however, prior attendance is not required to attend subsequent sessions.
- Registration is available
- Previous Session Slide Deck with materials from the Unraveling the Rope: Intensive Literacy Practices Conference.
For more information, please contact Alexa Hudak.
Charting the Life Conference is a framework developed to help individuals with disabilities and families at any age or state of life think about what they need to know, identify how to find or develop supports, and discover what it takes to live the lives they want to live. Individuals and families may focus on their current situation and stage of life but may also find it helpful to look ahead to start thinking about what they can do or learn now that will help build an inclusive productive life in the future.
Join us on January 23, 2024 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM.
We hope you can join us for the 2024 Oklahoma Law Conference. This conference is designed for general and special education administrators and teachers, service providers, lawyers and others involved in developing and supporting special education services for children with disabilities and their families.
Most sessions will require attendees to have a background in special education procedures and practice in order to apply the information to work or advocacy responsibilities. Registration is complimentary.
January 23, 2024 9:00 AM to 4:00 PMThe 2024 OKMTSS Winter Conference will be focusing on Evidence-Based Practices with sessions in a "workshop" format to teach practices for quality teaming, literacy and math instruction, and behavior intervention.
For more information, please see the 2024 OKMTSS Flyer.
The Oklahoma School for the Deaf is pleased to present the 2024 statewide Deaf Education Conference.
Professionals in the field of deaf education will come together, engage in dynamic workshops, connect with colleagues, and identify pathways to empowering students through access, language, and literacy. Attendees will include early interventionists, early childhood specialists, teachers of the deaf, and educational interpreters.
The pre-conference will be held June 3-4, 2024. The conference will be held June 5-6, 2024.Registration is now open.
NDPC offers online courses in each of the 15 research-based Effective Strategies for Dropout Prevention. The 15 Effective Strategies are recognized as the highest-impact interventions for graduation rate improvement. Each online course takes participants through an exploration of what the strategy is, how it fits within the 15 Effective Strategies model, and the research supporting it, allowing participants to envision for themselves how the strategy can be implemented well within their schools and communities. Participants investigate successful implementations across the country, potential benefits and barriers to implementing the strategy, and key implementation characteristics to consider in setting up their programs. Each course costs $99 except for the overview course, which costs $149.00. Each self-paced course takes 60 to 120 minutes, except for the overview course, which takes about 6 hours to complete.
Project 613 Funds are available for the NDPC Online Courses!For more information and a list of courses, visit Online Professional Development in Dropout Prevention Strategies.
CPI Trainings for 2023-2024 SY
The Oklahoma State Department of Education, Office of Special Education Services will be holding their CPI 2-day Regional Trainings for you to send 4 employees to get blue card certified.
ONLY 40 people will be able to attend each session, so make sure you register ASAP! Waiting lists have been opened for spots that are sold out.NOTE: A waitlist has opened for the sessions, if the session is full follow the link to join the waitlist.
2024 - Second Semester -
- *RESCHEDULED TBD* - Tulsa, Oklahoma - Tulsa Tech, Riverside Campus
- February 8-9, 2024 - Lawton, Oklahoma - Bishop Public Schools, Gym
- March 14-15, 2024 - Afton, Oklahoma - Northeast Technology - Afton Campus
- April 11-12, 2024 - Guymon, Oklahoma - Guymon Jr. High
CPI is approved through Project 613 for substitutes, travel, and lodging. Keep in mind lodging must be at least 60 miles one way. Questions can be directed to Megan Salisbury.
Secondary Transition (M/M): Using Assessment Results to Develop Meaningful Transition Goals & Services for Students with Mild/Moderate Disabilities
This training will focus on using assessment results to develop meaningful transition plans for students with mild/moderate disabilities.
Participants will:
- Learn to incorporate transition assessment results into the IEP
- Review case studies
- Analyze transition assessment results
- Use assessment results to identify specific transition strengths and needs and develop postsecondary goals, annual transition goals, services, coordinated activities, and courses of study.
- January 18 from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (check-in begins at 8:30 am) at Francis Tuttle (RENO CAMPUS), Oklahoma City
- May 7 from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (check-in begins at 8:30 am) at Central Technology Center, Sapulpa
This training will focus on using assessment results to develop meaningful transition plans for students with severve/profound disabilities.
Participants will:
- Learn to incorporate transition assessment results into the IEP
- Review case studies
- Analyze transition assessment results
- Use assessment results to identify specific transition strengths and needs and develop postsecondary goals, annual transition goals, services, coordinated activities, and courses of study.
- February 27 from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (check-in begins at 8:30 am) at Francis Tuttle (RENO CAMPUS), Oklahoma City
- May 8 from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (check-in begins at 8:30 am) at Central Technology Center, Sapulpa
The OSDE-SES is pleased to offer five regional trainings to empower educators to effectively teach transition skills and monitor student progress. This training will demonstrate how to implement effective instructional practices to teach transition skills to students with significant cognitive and adaptive disabilities who participate in the Oklahoma Alternate Assessment Program (OAAP). Special educators and paraprofessionals will learn to use data collection, task analysis (forward and backward chaining), and prompting (when and how to use prompts, how to fade prompts) to enable students to make progress toward their postsecondary and annual transition goals.
- 1/25/2024 - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- 2/1/2024 - Woodward, Oklahoma
- 2/29/2024 - Lawton, Oklahoma
Educational Interpreter Registry
If your district employs educational interpreters, please verify that they are on the OSDE Educational Interpreter Registry. All interpreters in an educational setting are required to be on the registry and are required to obtain yearly CEUs.
Special Education Services
Oklahoma State Department of Education
2500 North Lincoln Boulevard, Suite 412
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105
P: (405) 521-3351 F: (405) 522-2380
SDESpecialEducation@sde.ok.gov
Categories: specialed
OSDE - SES - January 2, 2024 - Internal
Interested school districts can register for the COVID-19 Testing Supply Program. It takes approximately 7-10 business days for ED to process each district’s request to register for the program. Once approved, POCs will receive a confirmation email with information on next steps, which includes attending a 30-minute training on how to order test kits through HHS’s Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response’s Health Partner Ordering Portal (HPOP).
The Child Outcomes Summary Knowledge Check (COS-KC) is now available for all Oklahoma school districts. The COS-KC has a free, online, open-book assessment with 30 multiple-choice items. This validated tool will help districts examine staff knowledge about Early Childhood Outcomes completion (also known as Child Outcome Summaries), and can help guide teams in targeting where additional professional development is needed in support indicator 7 data. Special education directors can expect an email with additional information about using the COS-KC as well as available resources later this week. For more information, please see Child Outcomes Summary Knowledge Check (COS-KC).
Schools who are planning to implement a School-Based Health Center (SBHC), either via telehealth, or a mobile clinic or plan to add oral or mental health to an existing SBHC will have the opportunity to earn a stipend (about $5,000+) for their schools. The stipend can be used to buy supplies, extra duty pay for the school staff person assigned to assist with the clinic, or a start for an RN-School Nurse Salary.
Please email Gayle Black, Alicia Lincoln, or you may call 405-426-8082 for assistance.
District Level OAAP Participation – Justification Survey
If your district is anticipating more than 1.0 percent of your testing population (Grades 3-8, and 11) will participate in the OAAP/DLM testing in the 2024 spring operational window, the survey: “2024 Justification for Exceeding 1.0 % in OAAP Participation” must be completed online by March 1, 2024.
If your district is not expecting to exceed the cap, no action is required. The survey is designed to be completed by someone at the administrative level with special education and state testing knowledge. It may be completed by either the District Testing Coordinator, Special Education Director, or someone in a similar position.
IDEA ARP Fund
All IDEA ARP fund expenditure reports must be submitted to OSDE-SES by January 28, 2024.
If assistance is needed, please contact your finance specialist.
Alternate Diploma Updates
Based on new legislation, Oklahoma has a new graduation pathway for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. The new state-defined alternate diploma is available for the school year 2023-2034. Following graduation, students who graduate with an alternate diploma must be afforded a Free Appropriate Public Education through the school year in which the student turns 22 years of age. This change will require districts to provide additional services through the Extended Secondary Transition Program. More information is available regarding the following:
- *UPDATED* Guide for Allowable Core Substitutions & Oklahoma State Board of Education Approved List of Allowable Substitutions for Life Skills and Career Readiness
- Mini Maps: Geography
- Mini Maps: Oklahoma History
- Mini Maps: US Government
- Mini Map: Career Readiness
- Mini Map: Life Skills
- Combined Alternate Standards
- Alternate Diploma Exit & Entry Code Flow Chart
- Project 618 Funding for Transition Program
- Alternate Diploma Checklist
- Alternate Diploma Codes & Descriptions
- ICAP for Students with Significant (Support) Needs
- Alternate Diploma Guidance Brief
The Oklahoma State Department of Education, Office of Special Education Services will continue to hold Secondary Transition/Alternate Diploma Collaborative meetings monthly beginning in August.
Zoom meetings will typically be held on the 4th Thursday of each month at 3:00 p.m., except for holidays/school vacation weeks.
The schedule of monthly sessions and known topics are listed below:
-
January 25, 2024 @ 3:00 p.m.
-
Inclusive Post Secondary Education (IPSE!): Preparation, Pathway and Potential! Julie Lackey, Oklahoma IPSE Alliance
-
-
February 22, 2024 @ 3:00 p.m.
- OK's Got Talent with Moore Public Schools Whitney Green, Academic Resource Coordinator
-
March 28, 2024 @ 3:00 p.m.
- Special Olympics Unified Sports – Meg Corn, Special Olympics Oklahoma & Mustang Public Schools
Join us via Zoom for all sessions scheduled.
Meeting ID: 160 702 2023 Passcode: 393839OSDE-SES is providing Transition Technical Assistance through a temporary, part-time Secondary Transition Program Specialist. Assistance to schools/districts will be available through various formats to include e-mail, phone, virtual (via Microsoft Teams) and/or in-person. Please use this link to complete a Transition Technical Assistance Request for your school/district regarding Secondary Transition topics, including the new Alternate Diploma and 18-22 Transition Programs. For brief questions and/or more information about Transition Technical Assistance, please contact Claudia Beckner or Lori Chesnut.
Intervener Training
We are pleased to announce an opportunity for intervener training in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Department of Education – Special Education Services and the Oklahoma Deaf Blind Technical Assistance Project are collaborating to support and train paraprofessionals to become interveners and professional teachers to learn about intervener services.
Please see the flyer for more information about this opportunity.
Deadline is January 3, 2024.The State Personnel Development Grant presents the Oklahoma Multi-Tiered System of Supports Community of Practice. This monthly session follows the SPDG's asynchronous professional development sequence available on OSDEConnect.
This session will focus on the Dimensions of Intensification presented by Dr. Gary Duhon on Thursday, January 4th at 9:00AM.
We look forward to having you attend the event!
Please join us for an informal discussion of chapters 5-8 of The Writing Rope, by Joan Seditia on Wednesday, January 10, 2024.
This is the second session in the series; however, prior attendance is not required to attend subsequent sessions.
- Registration is available
- Previous Session Slide Deck with materials from the Unraveling the Rope: Intensive Literacy Practices Conference.
For more information, please contact Alexa Hudak.
We hope you can join us for the 2024 Oklahoma Law Conference. This conference is designed for general and special education administrators and teachers, service providers, lawyers and others involved in developing and supporting special education services for children with disabilities and their families.
Most sessions will require attendees to have a background in special education procedures and practice in order to apply the information to work or advocacy responsibilities. Registration is complimentary.
January 23, 2024 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM (lunch included) 1900 Springlake Dr., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73111The 2024 OKMTSS Winter Conference will be focusing on Evidence-Based Practices with sessions in a "workshop" format to teach practices for quality teaming, literacy and math instruction, and behavior intervention.
For more information, please see the 2024 OKMTSS Flyer.
The Oklahoma School for the Deaf is pleased to present the 2024 statewide Deaf Education Conference.
Professionals in the field of deaf education will come together, engage in dynamic workshops, connect with colleagues, and identify pathways to empowering students through access, language, and literacy. Attendees will include early interventionists, early childhood specialists, teachers of the deaf, and educational interpreters.
The pre-conference will be held June 3-4, 2024. The conference will be held June 5-6, 2024.Registration is now open.
CPI Trainings for 2023-2024 SY
The Oklahoma State Department of Education, Office of Special Education Services will be holding their CPI 2-day Regional Trainings for you to send 4 employees to get blue card certified.
ONLY 40 people will be able to attend each session, so make sure you register ASAP! Waiting lists have been opened for spots that are sold out.NOTE: A waitlist has opened for the sessions, if the session is full follow the link to join the waitlist.
2024 - Second Semester -
- January 11-12, 2024 - Tulsa, Oklahoma - Tulsa Tech, Riverside Campus
- February 8-9, 2024 - Lawton, Oklahoma - Bishop Public Schools, Gym
- March 14-15, 2024 - Afton, Oklahoma - Northeast Technology - Afton Campus
- April 11-12, 2024 - Guymon, Oklahoma - Guymon Jr. High
CPI is approved through Project 613 for substitutes, travel, and lodging. Keep in mind lodging must be at least 60 miles one way. Questions can be directed to Megan Salisbury.
**NEW** Secondary Transition (M/M): Using Assessment Results to Develop Meaningful Transition Goals & Services for Students with Mild/Moderate Disabilities
This training will focus on using assessment results to develop meaningful transition plans for students with mild/moderate disabilities.
Participants will:
- Learn to incorporate transition assessment results into the IEP
- Review case studies
- Analyze transition assessment results
- Use assessment results to identify specific transition strengths and needs and develop postsecondary goals, annual transition goals, services, coordinated activities, and courses of study.
- January 18 from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (check-in begins at 8:30 am) at Francis Tuttle (RENO CAMPUS), Oklahoma City
- May 7 from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (check-in begins at 8:30 am) at Central Technology Center, Sapulpa
This training will focus on using assessment results to develop meaningful transition plans for students with severve/profound disabilities.
Participants will:
- Learn to incorporate transition assessment results into the IEP
- Review case studies
- Analyze transition assessment results
- Use assessment results to identify specific transition strengths and needs and develop postsecondary goals, annual transition goals, services, coordinated activities, and courses of study.
- February 27 from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (check-in begins at 8:30 am) at Francis Tuttle (RENO CAMPUS), Oklahoma City
- May 8 from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (check-in begins at 8:30 am) at Central Technology Center, Sapulpa
The OSDE-SES is pleased to offer five regional trainings to empower educators to effectively teach transition skills and monitor student progress. This training will demonstrate how to implement effective instructional practices to teach transition skills to students with significant cognitive and adaptive disabilities who participate in the Oklahoma Alternate Assessment Program (OAAP). Special educators and paraprofessionals will learn to use data collection, task analysis (forward and backward chaining), and prompting (when and how to use prompts, how to fade prompts) to enable students to make progress toward their postsecondary and annual transition goals.
- 1/25/2024 - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- *UPDATED* 2/1/2024 - Woodward, Oklahoma
- 2/29/2024 - Lawton, Oklahoma
Educational Interpreter Registry
If your district employs educational interpreters, please verify that they are on the OSDE Educational Interpreter Registry. All interpreters in an educational setting are required to be on the registry and are required to obtain yearly CEUs.
Special Education Services
Oklahoma State Department of Education
2500 North Lincoln Boulevard, Suite 412
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105
P: (405) 521-3351 F: (405) 522-2380
SDESpecialEducation@sde.ok.gov
Categories: specialed
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