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State Performance Plan 2005-2012 - Part B - Arkansas Department Of Education Page 82

Arkansas Department of Education Special Education Unit

Part B State Performance Plan

• Use of up to 15 percent of Title VI-B funds for Early Intervening Services tied to addressing school

district excessive use of restrictive placements

The Arkansas State Improvement Grant (SIG) will continue tracking the LRE of students participating in

Goal 1 Literacy. (A target of the SIG is to analyze if students in schools participating in Goal 1: Literacy,

are moving from a more restrictive environment to a lesser restrictive environment.)

The ADE-SEU will continue to use LRE indicators as part of the focused monitoring system,

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providing technical assistance and oversight to districts that trigger. Districts that trigger are required to

include an action plan in their Arkansas Consolidated School Improvement Plan (ACSIP). In addition, the

Monitoring Program Effectiveness (M/PE) Section will review each ACSIP and work with districts to

ensure they are calculating the percentage of time accurately.

The Arkansas State Improvement Grant (SIG) will continue promoting more inclusive practices. A target of

the SIG is to analyze if students in schools participating in Goal 1: Literacy, are moving from a more

restrictive environment to a lesser restrictive environment. The SIG will continue tracking the LRE of

students participating in Goal 1 Literacy. Through the SEU partnership with the ADE K-12 Literacy Unit,

SIG activities will incorporate a more targeted focus on adolescent literacy by providing professional

development and follow-up to secondary educators (general and special education) in the Strategic

Instruction Model (SIM), with an ultimate goal of all students successfully accessing the general education

curriculum.

Additionally, in support of LRE, the State Program Development (SPD) Section of the SEU will

coordinate and conduct training for higher education teacher preparation faculty to assist with the support,

services, and trainings for universities, public school, and higher education educators, and others for the

systemic change for inclusion. To prepare pre-service teachers to meet the needs of children with IEPs, the

inclusion of specific instructional strategies in teacher preparation curricula training needs to be provided

to higher education teacher preparation faculty in a comprehensive, systemic manner. Research based

strategies, Content Enhancement Routines, and Learning Strategies Routines developed by the University

of Kansas Center for Research on Learning (KU-CRL) will be utilized as the primary comprehensive

intervention model. The intervention model is called the Strategic Instruction Model (SIM). To implement

the training, all 18 of Arkansas Colleges of Education in collaboration with Colleges of Arts and Sciences

preparing teacher educators will receive an application for participation in the initial four day training,

with two days of follow up. There will be eight teams of four faculty members comprised of two general

educators and two special educators selected to attend this comprehensive, systemic intervention model

training. Fulfilling this goal will dramatically increase the capacity of the State’s teacher training

institutions to prepare future teachers to use research-based practices for adolescents.

The SEU will participate in the ADE’s Closing the Achievement Gap (CTAG) initiative which is broadly

formulated on an infrastructure aligned with a problem solving decision-making model and response to

intervention design.

The ADE-SEU will continue to use LRE indicators as part of the monitoring system, as well

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as provide technical assistance and oversee noncompliance for districts that trigger. Districts that trigger are

required to include an action plan in their Arkansas Consolidated School Improvement Plan (ACSIP). In

addition, the Monitoring Program Effectiveness (M/PE) Section will review each ACSIP and work with

districts to ensure they are calculating the percentage of time accurately.

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