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Arkansas Department of Education Special Education Unit

Part B State Performance Plan

audience is parents and students. Copies of this program will be shared with districts throughout the state to

use in local training with students and parents.

Secondary Transition State Planning Institute: Members of Arkansas Transition Services will attend this

annual meeting in May 2009 to continue work on the Arkansas state plan to improve indicator outcomes.

The Institute is sponsored by the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center, National

Dropout Prevention Center and the National Post-School Outcomes Center.

AR-LEARN: The Arkansas Local Education Agency Resource Network (AR-LEARN) continues to expand

its assistance to LEAs in meeting the challenges of providing quality special education services to address

the needs of students. AR-LEARN workshops planned for the 2008-09 school year include:

• “Suspension/Expulsion of Students with Disabilities: The Legal Do's and Don'ts and Conducting

Solid Manifestation Hearings.” Presented by Jose Martin

• Discrete Trial Training

• Positive Behavioral Supports

• Social Communication Emotional Regulation Transactional Support (SCERTS)

• Writing Positive Behavior Plans

• Data Collection Behavior Plans

• Program Writing - Autism

• Social and Behavioral Interventions - Autism

• Professional Development in Autism

• Autism Diagnostic Observation System (ADOS)

• Strategies for Teaching Autism based on Research (STAR)

• Structured Teaching for Students with Autism (TEACCH)

State partners in secondary and postsecondary education will continue to implement the

FFY 2009

NASET Self-Assessment Tool planning priorities. Other strategies centering on state-level integration will

be refined and maintained. The Partners in Transition effort will be implemented statewide.

Monitoring/Program Effectiveness Section: The M/PE section of the ADE–SEU will continue to review

graduation rates via the Monitoring Profiles to determine if districts are graduating students with disabilities

at the same rate of all students.

Centralized Intake and Referral/Consultant Unified Intervention Team (CIRCUIT): CIRCUIT will continue

to identify districts needing additional technical assistance.

P.O.I.S.E will undertake the following activities in 2009-10:

Collaborations:

• Arkansas Greater Graduation Initiative: P.O.I.S.E. will continue to participate in the Arkansas

Greater Gradation initiative Phase II process to implement dropout prevention programs in 10

targeted local school districts.

• Ninth Grade Academies: Arkansas Department of Career Education and P.O.I.S.E. will continue the

collaboration to implement 9th grade redesign statewide. A joint training to support Ninth Grade

Academies for dropout prevention will be established with funds being provided by Career

education for schools that volunteer to complete the training requirements.

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