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State Performance Plan 2005-2012 - Part B - Arkansas Department Of Education Page 19

Arkansas Department of Education Special Education Unit

Part B State Performance Plan

• College Bound 2010: The annual event will be held June 16-18, 2010 at the University of Central

Arkansas (UCA) in Conway, AR.

• CASSP Teams: Arkansas Transition Services consultants will continue to participate on Child and

Adolescent Service System Program (CASSP) teams.

• ATS will support Transition Orientation Nights for Parents.

• ATS will support Transition Fairs/Agency Fests.

• Transition Youth Conference: The annual Youth Conference will be held in Hope, Arkansas in

October 2009.

• ATS will make presentations at State and National Meetings.

• Cadre meetings will be held at least twice a year to present team leaders with the latest information

and professional development.

• A cadre meeting for leaders and co-leaders of local teams around the state will be held February 25-

26, 2010 in Little Rock. The meeting will provide teams with professional development on TAKE

OFF and the College Bound Arkansas program. Information on writing post-secondary goals will be

presented by NSTTAC consultants.

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

this annual meeting in May 2010 to continue work on the state plan to improve indicator outcomes.

• Check and Connect Program: In September 2009, ATS and members from three school districts will

receive training from the Institute on Community Integration at the University of Minnesota on the

Check and Connect program, a comprehensive student engagement intervention.

• ATS will host a transition retreat on December 10-11, 2009 for teachers from three school districts

along with their Special Education Supervisor at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute.

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. Planned training includes:

• 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 2010

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 general education 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 2010-11:

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.

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