Sunday, July 30, 2006

Registration/Pick up Conference materials

Monday, July 31, 2006

Registration / Pick up conference materials

Continental Breakfast

Welcome: Lou Danielson

Plenary: OSERS Goals and Priorities
Presenter: John Hager
Introduced by: Lou Danielson

8:55 am - 9:25 am

Opening: Alexa Posny

Plenary: The Future of Special Education in Today’s Schools
Presenters: Sharon Vaughn, George Sugai, and Martha Brooks
Moderator: Tim Lewis
Respondent: Jim Gallagher

10:50 am - 11:00 am

Break

Large Group Panel Sessions

1. Aligning the State Performance Plan, Improvement Strategies, and Professional Development
2. Improving Education Results through Parent Involvement: The Power of Partnerships with Parents
3. Perspectives and Challenges in Training Personnel to Serve Low-Incidence Populations
4. Demonstration Models and Multisite Projects
5. Future Research on Minority Placement in Special Education: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges

Lunch with Keynote
In Search of Equity and Excellence for All Children: Creating Conditions to Support Special Education Students
Presenter: Pedro Noguera

2:15 pm - 3:45 pm

Large Group Panel Sessions

1. Addressing Social Behavior Needs of Students With Disabilities and Those at Risk Through Classroom, Program, and Schoolwide Systems of Support
2. RTI, Screening, and Progress Monitoring for Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Instruction: Improving Student Academic Outcomes and Appropriate Identification for Special Education
3. Just in Time: Technology Resources to Meet Critical Needs
4. Achieving Literacy in English Language Learners
5. Sustaining and Expanding Effective Practices: Lessons Learned From the Implementation of Schoolwide Positive Behavior Supports

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Interactive Small Breakout Sessions

1. Scientific and Evidence-Based Evaluation of SIG/SPDG Initiatives: One State’s Response
2. Inclusive Network of Kansas: A Model for Field-Based Technical Assistance and Professional Developmen t
3. Louisiana State Improvement Grant (LaSIG ): Trials, Triumphs, and Moving Forward
4. Response to Intervention: Can’t We All Just Get Along?
5. What Do We Know About Assistive Technology Use in Early Intervention?
6. Update on the Personnel Preparation Program Student Data Report: Purpose, Results, and Issues
7. Preparing Early Intervention Providers to Work Effectively w ith Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families
8. Keeping Quality Teachers: How States, Local Education Agencies, and Institutes for Higher Education Are Working Together to Address Special Education Teacher Retention
9. National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) Policy and Technologies: Four Months to Implementation
10. Best Practices in Parent Center-State Collaboration to Improve Student Achievement
11. Choices in Transition: Implementing Systemic Change in a Large Urban Environment
12. Creating Access to the General Curriculum with Links to Grade-Level Content for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities
13. Infusing Diversity in Preservice Education: One Way to Address System Improvement
14. Transition and School Readiness: A Conceptual Framework and Child Outcomes Model
15. Long-Term Effectiveness of Earliest Individualized Developmental Intervention and Prevention in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
16. Research on Alternatives to Overreliance on Paraprofessionals in Inclusive Schools
17. Empowering Native American and Hispanic Doctoral Students Via a Web-Based Doctoral Program: Challenges and Solutions

Tuesday, August 1, 2006

Affinity / Discussion Groups

1. Successfully Recruit, Retain, and Graduate Diverse Nontraditional Preservice Teachers into Special Education
2. Rural Special Education Teacher Preparation
3. Underserved Families: Collaborating to Provide Effective Technical Assistance
4. Curriculum Policy and Educational Reform: What Should We Do For Youth in Corrections?
5. Educational Interpreting
6. What Do Early Intervention Providers Need to Know to Work Effectively With Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families?
7. Challenges and Barriers to Special Education Personnel Development and Strategies That Effectively Overcome Them
8. “Let’s Talk SIG/SPDG ” – Creating Conversations for Leading Collaborative Dialogue, Sharing Knowledge, and Uncovering the Possibilities for All of Us
9. Advancing Access Through Excellence in Leadership and Research in Special Education Administration
10. Evaluating the Value Added of Collaborative Technical Assistance
11. Preparing and Mentoring Highly-Qualified Secondary Special Education Teachers
12. Analysis of the Annual Deafblind Census in the Development of Statewide Technical Assistance Efforts
13. What do doctoral students need to know about preparing and investigating high quality (HQ) teacher education?

Keynote: Implementing Innovations for Student Benefit
Presenter: Dean Fixsen
Introduced by: Lou Danielson

Large Group Panel Sessions

1. Early Childhood Assessment and Accountability: Strange Bedfellows?
2. Scaling Up Innovations: From Innovation Research to National Implementation
3. Assessing Very Low-Achieving Children With Disabilities Using Large-Scale Assessments
4. Personnel Preparation Programs Can Prepare Highly Qualified Teachers: Considerations for Preparation Programs
5. Promoting Access to the General Education Curriculum by Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities: Strategies for Families and Professionals

Interactive Small Breakout Sessions

1. Connecting State Performance Plans and Technical Assistance Through the Use of Evidence-Based Education
2. Walking the Talk and Scaling Up: How the Kansas Department of Education (KSDE) Provides Differentiated and Sustained Support for District and School Improvement
3. Promising Practices in Educational Technology
4. The National Assistive Technology Research Institute’s “Top Ten List” of Findings
5. Getting to the Front Lines: Evaluating Comprehensive Personnel Preparation for Secondary Special Education and Transition
6. Preparing Teachers to Teach ALL Children: The Impact of the Work of the Center for Improving Teacher Quality on One State’s Efforts
7. The IRIS Center: Free Online Course Enhancement Materials About Response to Intervention and the Identification of Students With Learning Disabilities
8. Project PISCES: This Is How We Did It! Effective Retention Strategies for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Teachers
9. Communities of Practice: The Human Side of Scaling Up
10. Building Bridges: Embedding Outcome Evaluation in National and State Technical Assistance Delivery
11. Monarch Center: Supporting Special Education Program Development and Improvement
12. Reading , Writing, Math and Science for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities
13. Harder Than Rocket Science: Collaborations for Successful Outcomes on Service Coordination
14. Postschool Outcomes for Students with Learning Disabilities
15. School Contexts and Student Characteristics that Impact Schools AYP Status: Impact of Student Demographics and Service Arrangements Provided by Schools
16. Improving Secondary Transition Services Through an Electronic Learning Community: An Online “Connect and Learn” Professional Development Model in Idaho
17. Playing in the Sandbox: Scaling up Technical Assistance Through Integrating OSEP and OESE Project Resources

Large Group Panel Sessions

1. What Works: Characteristics of Schools that are Effective for Students with Disabilities
2. What REALLY Makes a Difference? Results of a 5-Year National Longitudinal Study of Students Receiving Special Education in Elementary and Middle Schools
3. The White Paper Released: Including Students with Disabilities in Large-Scale Assessments
4. IDEA and NCLB and Standards-Based Accountability
5. Professional Development in Autism Center: Stories From the Field and From Our Consumers

Wednesday, August 2, 2006

Plenary: State Performance Plan: A Two-Way Street
Presenters: Ruth Ryder and Larry Wexler

Plenary: From Unique to Universal: Technology, Disability, and the Future of Education
Presenters: Yong Zhao, Ted Hasselbring, and Markay Winston
Moderator: David Rose

Plenary: Research, Research to Practice: The View from OSEP and IES
Presenters: Lou Danielson, Ed Kame’enui

Program Area Meetings

1. Personnel Preparation Projects (including Leadership Projects)
2. Research Projects
3. SIG/SPDG Projects (including CSPD attendees)
4. Technical Assistance and Dissemination Projects
5. Technology and Media Projects

Thursday, August 3, 2006