State Performance Plan 2005-2012 - Part B - Arkansas Department Of Education Page 34

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Arkansas Department of Education Special Education Unit
Part B State Performance Plan
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.
• 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.
Arkansas Transition Services will undertake the following in 2009-10:
Collaborations:
• Interagency Agreements with School Districts
• Partnership with the National Secondary Transition and Technical Assistance Center
• Division on Career Development and Transition
• Arkansas Youth United
• College Camp at UALR in collaboration with PEPNet
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