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PD INFO: Encourage your staff to register for Spring 2026 SELECT Courses!

  • Mon, Dec 1 2025  •
    • Updates
    • Professional Learning and Sustainability

Are your staff looking for new professional learning on current special education topics? We have an excellent opportunity for them!

INTERNAL PD INFO: In-Person Regional Training Opportunities from Program Support & Monitoring

  • Mon, Dec 1 2025  •
    • Updates
    • Program Support and Monitoring

ESS/PSM is excited to announce that in-person regional training opportunities will be available this school year

DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT: Updated SPED School Concurrency vs Federal Primary Need Indicator Guidance

  • Tue, Nov 25 2025  •
    • Updates
    • Data Management

The SPED School Concurrency vs Federal Primary Need Indicator Guidance has been modified to reflect updates for the 2025-2026 reporting year.

FY 2026 November Expenditure Report (BUDG-25)

  • Thu, Nov 20 2025  •
    • Hot Topics
    • Budget Hot Topics

FY 2026 November Expenditure Report (BUDG-25)

DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT: October Data Collection Phase II Office Hours

  • Wed, Nov 19 2025  •
    • Updates
    • Data Management

To help you be more successful in the Reconciliation (Phase II), ESS Data Management is offering PEA’s the opportunity to meet 1-on-1 with an ESS Data Management Specialist via Microsoft Teams.

108 schools leave school improvement status in past year, Horne celebrates academic success

  • Wed, Nov 19 2025

PHOENIX – Using proven methods that emphasize rigorous academics in the classroom has pulled 108 schools out of “School Improvement” status this past year, Superintendent Tom Horne announced today. Horne is also celebrating the academic success of other schools that have consistently used programs based on core academic subjects that cause students to excel academically.

IMPORTANT: Update on Tomorrow’s SEDU Webinar

  • Tue, Nov 18 2025  •
    • Updates
    • Data Management

For the Special Education Data Updates (SEDU) webinar scheduled for tomorrow, November 19, at 2:00 PM, please note that Monica Paz from School Finance will be unable to present due to illness. While this is unfortunate, we have rescheduled this special session for Tuesday, December 2, at 2:00 PM. Save your School Finance questions for the rescheduled SEDU session with Monica Paz.  

INTERNAL PD INFO: Secondary Transition Tuesday Webinar: Putting the Transition Plan Course of Study into Action

  • Tue, Nov 18 2025  •
    • Updates
    • Transition Training
    • Transition News

The ADE/ESS Secondary Transition Team is excited to continue our 2025-2026 Transition Tuesday webinar series! This engaging webinar series is designed to empower students, educators, and families by connecting them with community resources and experts who support the secondary transition planning process. 

INTERNAL VIRTUAL PD: Free Assistive Technology JOTs

  • Thu, Nov 13 2025  •
    • Updates
    • Assistive Technology Upcoming Events
    • Assistive Technology

Are you overwhelmed by professional development? Don’t have time for a 90-minute webinar? We got you! Join the ADE/ESS Assistive Technology Team for our fall series, Assistive Technology: Just One Thing (JOT). In these quick 30-minute sessions, we will highlight a single assistive technology tool or strategy that you can use to support your students.

Horne, ADE recognize six AZ Blue Ribbon Schools

  • Wed, Nov 12 2025

PHOENIX – Six Arizona schools have been recognized as Blue Ribbon Schools by state schools superintendent Tom Horne and the Arizona Department of Education today.