State Performance Plan 2005-2012 - Part B - Arkansas Department Of Education (Page 220 of 277) in pdf

State Performance Plan 2005-2012 - Part B - Arkansas Department Of Education Page 220

Arkansas Department of Education Special Education Unit

Part B State Performance Plan

The ADE-SEU will compile a list of youth with IEPs from each district from the Arkansas

FFY 2009

Public School Computer Network (APSCN). The information will be forwarded to LifeTrack Services, Inc.

to generate mailings, conduct telephone survey follow ups and basic survey response analysis. The ADE-

SEU will receive a results analysis report from LifeTrack Services along with the raw data for additional

analysis to be undertaken by the Arkansas IDEA Data & Research Office.

The Arkansas IDEA Data & Research Office will provide district and statewide reports on the survey results

to the ADE-SEU and the State consultants for transition addressing secondary and postsecondary education.

These reports provide valuable information on how Indicators 1, 2 and 13 can be enhanced, thus, leading to

improved secondary transition plans, graduation rates and dropout rates.

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

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

and maintained.

CIRCUIT and the website

continue to be utilized as vehicles for improving

the outcomes related to the secondary transition indicator.

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

Collaborations:

• Arkansas Greater Graduation Initiative: P.O.I.S.E. 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. 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.

• National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities Collaboration: P.O.I.S.E. will

convene a team to attend Building Effective Practice in Dropout Prevention: A Summit for State and

Local Education Agencies in Baltimore, MD, November 16-18, 2009.

• National Post-school Outcome Center Collaboration: The P.O.I.S.E. staff will participate in the

National Post-school Outcome Data Use Toolkit Training hosted in Eugene Oregon, March 17-18,

2010. IDEA Data & Research will provide state and district level data to the team for the meeting.

Additionally, Arkansas’s pilot process will be shared with participants.

• Little Rock School District: The P.O.I.S.E. staff will continue to work with Little Rock School

District.

Other P.O.I.S.E. activities for 2009-10 will include:

• P.O.I.S.E. website:

will be updated.

• Check and Connect Program: P.O.I.S.E. and Arkansas Transition Services will participate and

provide training opportunities to local education agencies.

• Changing Outcomes through Retention Elements (C.O.R.E.): The C.O.R.E. project will continue to

expand and will work with the Arkansas IDEA Data & Research Office to develop and present to

LEA supervisors in the Arkansas River Education Service Cooperative a rudimentary assessment of

a local Early Warning System.

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