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Arkansas Department of Education Special Education Unit
Part B State Performance Plan
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)
The ADE-SEU will continue to use discipline indicators as part of the monitoring system,
FFY 2009
providing technical assistance and oversight to districts that trigger. The ADE-SEU will continue to work
with the School-Based Mental Health (SBMH) Network; however, due to funding constraints, grants have
been reduced and no new districts have been added to the network.
Activities to be undertaken by the Arkansas SPDG are:
• The Arkansas SPDG will maintain a collaborative relationship with the broader ADE, and the SPDG
staff will continue to be centrally involved in numerous ADE initiatives.
• The ADE-SEU Associate Director with follow up by SPDG staff will send an e-mail to Special
Education LEA Supervisors in the state for nominations of Parent Mentors for implementation of the
new SPDG goals related to home based literacy and PBSS/social skills.
• To support PBSS/Social Skills and Home-Based Literacy, a CD will be produced containing: (a) the
Partners in Literacy and The Stop and Think Parenting PowerPoint presentations with
accompanying scripts and handouts; (b) pdf files of the SIG’s Literacy Brochures for Parents at three
age/grade levels; and (c) five sample preschool to Grade 1 social skills songs from The Stop and
Think Songbook for Early Childhood .
• PBSS Certification: Over the next five years through SPDG efforts, there will be 30 PBSS
professional developers certified to support the use of scientifically-based positive behavioral
support and behavioral intervention strategies in schools involved in Smart Accountability and/or
ADE-SEU intervention.
• SPDG Professional Development: The Arkansas SPDG staff will hold professional development
trainings for LEA and Education Service Cooperative (ESC) staff related to PBSS and behavior.
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 2009-10 school year include:
• Disobedient, Disruptive, Defiant, and Disturbed Students
• Help Me Get Social
• Just Do the Right Thing in the Classroom (JDRT)
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