Conference at a Glance

3:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Registration/Pick up conference materials

7:00 am - 8:30 am

Registration/Pick up conference materials

8:00 am - 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

Interactive Small Breakout Session for First-Time Conference Attendees

8:30 am - 9:25 am

Welcome & Opening Remarks: Lou Danielson, Patty Guard & John Hager

9:25 am - 10:45 am

Keynote/Plenary: Arthur Levine
Teacher Preparation in America

10:45 am - 11:00 am

Break

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Large Group Panel Sessions

1. Scaling Up & Sustaining Evidence-Based Practices
2. Building Response to Intervention (RtI) Systems at Local Levels
3. Early Childhood Outcomes: Implications for Personnel Preparation and Professional Development
4. Part B and C Indicator Status
5. ¡Juntos Podemos! Together We Can!
6. The New 2% Regulations on Modified Achievement Standards: Implications for Teachers and Teacher Trainers

12:30 pm - 1:45 pm

Lunch with Project Officers

1:45 pm - 2:00 pm

Break

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Interactive Small Breakout Sessions

1. Student-Directed Transition Planning:  Facilitating High-School-to-Adult-Life Partnerships Between Students with Disabilities, Families, and Educators
2. State Strategies for Improving the Teaching of Students with Disabilities:  Impact of the Center for Improving Teacher Quality (CTQ)
3. Go beyond TV:  Captioning and Video Description as Teaching Tools for the DVD and Multimedia Environment
4. Customizing Language Representations to Individual Strengths and Needs
5. The National Status of Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education Training:  Technical Assistance (TA) Systems and Provider Perspectives
6. Fostering Professional Development in Personnel Preparation Programs
7. Personnel Preparation and Access to the General Education Curriculum: Providing Pre-Service Educators with Effective Strategies to Improve Results for All Students
8. Understanding the Nuances of Multi-tier Schoolwide Reading Approaches: A Summary of a 5-Year Longitudinal Study
9. Promoting Behavior Change with Native American Students: A Systemic Approach
10. A Quasi-experimental Approach for Studying the Impact of the Tennessee State Improvement Grant’s (SIG) Professional Development (PD) on the Preschool Classroom Environment
11. Developing a Community of Practice, Creativity and Support: How We Made It Work
12. Promoting Positive Behavior through Family and Community Partnerships
13. The Inside View of Virginia’s Secondary Schoolwide Literacy Initiative
14. Research Institute on Progress Monitoring (RIPM): Extending Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM)
15. Pushing the Envelope: Preparing Future Leaders for Special Education Administration

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Break

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Interactive Small Breakout Sessions

1. University of New Orleans: Assessing Candidate Performance
2. Engaging States and Technical Assistance (TA) Partners in a Change Process: Strategies from the National Professional Development Center on Inclusion (NPDCI)
3. Reducing Reading and Special Education Risk for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) Low-Income Urban Learners
4. Maximizing Regional Resources in the Preparation of Low Incidence Pre-service Teacher Education
5. Emerging Evidence from Single-Subject Design Studies in the Field of Deaf-Blindness
6. Supporting Technology Implementation: Online and On Time with the Center for Implementing Technology in Education (CITEd) Ed Tech Locator and www.cited.org
7. Paraprofessional Utilization, Effectiveness, and Career Development
8. From Research to Practice: Implementing Advanced Training in Assistive Technology (AT)
9. Driving Systems Change: Effective Preparation, Practice, and Partnership
10. Evaluating State Professional Development Grant Initiatives at the Individual Practitioner, School, and District/State Level
11. Integrating Technology and Early Literacy Instructional Strategies for Children, Teachers, and Families
12. Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports: Implementation in Urban Public and Charter Schools
13. Two Models with One Goal: Preparing Teachers for Urban School Settings
14. Teachers of the Visually Impaired: Attitudes and Beliefs about Response to Intervention (RTI)
15. Risks and Rewards: Developing Effective Doctoral Programs

4:30 pm - 4:45 pm

Break

4:45 pm - 5:45 pm

Community of Practice, Affinity/Discussion Groups, & Miscellaneous Meetings

1. Silence with a Touch: Living with Usher Syndrome
2. Advancing Access through Excellence in Leadership and Research in Special Education Administration
3. The Impact of The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) on Early Intervention
4. Addressing the National Shortage of Ph.D.-Level Faculty/Scholars in the Fields of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology: How Do We Attract Doctoral Students When There Are So Many Other Attractive Alternatives for Them?
5. Issues in Personnel Preparation Birth through 5
6. Interpreter Education Programs—Is Present Programming Satisfactory?
7. Statewide Studies Focused on the Post-school Outcomes for Students with Disabilities
8. It’s Not Your Regular Mac N Cheese: Cooking Up Innovative Early Intervention Practicum Experiences
9. Explorations in Communication Disorders
10. Enhancing Supply of Special Education Teachers via Alternative Routes
11. The Rats of NIRN (National Implementation Research Network), or the Challenges of Winning Support for Evidence-Based Implementation of Effective Practices
12.  Professional Preparation of Special Education and Related Service Personnel to Serve Students with Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI)
13. Cochlear Implants and Children Who Are Deaf-Blind
14. Maximizing Resources to Address Low Incidence Needs
15. Community Engagement and Personnel Preparation: From Recruitment through Induction

5:45 pm - 7:00 pm

Networking Session/Reception

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8:15 am - 9:00 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am - 11:45 am

Workshops

1. Conducting and Translating Practice-Based Research Syntheses to Advance Evidence-Based Practices
2. Student Progress Monitoring Takes the Guesswork out of RTI
3. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Part B Regulations: Implications for OSEP Grantees
4. RTI Goes to Pre-K: An Early Intervening System Called Recognition and Response
5. Entering Adulthood: Assistance on the School-to-Community Transition of Adolescents with Disabilities

11:45 am - 12 Noon

Break

12 Noon - 1:30 pm

Lunch with Keynote: Jim Stovall
Yes You Can

1:30 pm - 1:45 pm

Break

1:45 pm - 2:45 pm

Interactive Small Breakout Sessions

1. Special Education Elementary Longitudinal Study [SEELS]: Overview and Application of Study Results
2. Promoting the Adoption of Evidence-Based Early Literacy Learning Practice among Early Childhood Practitioners
3. Your Way, My Way, Our Way: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Preparing Highly Qualified Early Intervention Personnel
4. Online Materials: The IRIS Center Series in RTI and Behavior
5. Challenges and Successes in Implementing a Response to Intervention (RTI) Model Demonstration Project: Perspectives from Three States
6. Listening to Administrators: Learning about Decisions and Priorities
7. Standards for Inclusive Education: Access, Participation, and Progress in the General Education Curriculum in the Least Restrictive Environment for Students with Severe Disabilities
8. Teaching to the Standards in Math and Science Instruction for Secondary Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities
9. Building Consensus on Effective Instructional Strategies for English Language Learners with Disabilities
10. The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Policy and Research on Alternative-Route Teacher Preparation
11. Collaboration Trek: Voyage for Solutions
12. Taking Advantage of Capacity: Salvaging Evaluations and Providing Models of Effective Practice (When It Doesn’t Go the Way You Planned)
13. Improving Leadership Skills of Parents of Children with Special Needs: Preliminary Findings from a 5-Year Intervention Project
14. Building State Capacity through Regional Collaboration: Two Innovative Models of Professional Development
15. Empirical Data on Early Childhood Transitions: Emerging Findings for the Transition at Age 3

2:45 pm - 3:00 pm

Break

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Large Group Panel Sessions

1. What Teacher Education Faculty Need to Know About Access to the General Curriculum and the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS)
2. Evaluating Adult Behavior Change as a Result of Training Activities: Moving from Saying to Doing
3. Intervention in Natural Environments: Setting the Stage for a Lifetime of Learning
4. Meeting the Need for Highly Qualified Effective Special Education Teachers

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Poster Sessions

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8:00 am - 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

8:30 am - 10:00 am

Plenary Session: Evidence-Based Practices: What are They? Who is Identifying and Defining them? And How Does It All Relate to My Work?

10:00 am - 10:45 am

Research to Practice Overview: Lou Danielson

10:45 am - 11:00 am

Break

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Program Area Meetings

1. Personnel Preparation Projects (including Leadership projects)
2. SIG/SPDG Projects (including Comprehensive System of Personnel Development (CSPD) attendees)
3. Technical Assistance and Dissemination Projects
4. Technology and Media Projects
5. Deaf-Blind Projects

3:00 pm

Conference closes

3:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Ad hoc meetings (as scheduled by OSEP)

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8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Ad hoc meetings (as scheduled by OSEP)

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Project Directors’ Meeting for OSEP Deaf-Blind Projects

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