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Program Area: Special Education
Arizona’s 2022 IDEA Conference, Rise Up: Reimagining and Transforming Educational Practices, is only a few months away.
Program Area: Special Education
ADE/ESS is excited to share that Arizona’s 2023 IDEA Conference will be held in person from August 21–23, 2023, at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge in Phoenix. This year’s theme is Creating Connections and Strengthening Systems.
Program Area: Special Education
ADE/ESS is requesting proposals that represent your creative and research-based work. Session proposals are due Wednesday, March 22, 2023.
Program Area: Special Education
On behalf of the Arizona Department of Education, Exceptional Student Services, and other partnering agencies, you are invited to submit your nominations for this year's Secondary Transition Services Awards, which will be presented at Arizona's 2023 IDEA Conference.
Program Area: Special Education
ADE/ESS is excited to announce keynote speakers for Arizona’s 2023 IDEA Conference: Creating Connections and Strengthening Systems.
Program Area: Special Education
Registration for Arizona’s 2023 IDEA Conference: Creating Connections and Strengthening Systems is filling up quickly. To join us from August 21–23, 2023, at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge in Phoenix, please register on or before July 19, 2023.
Program Area: Special Education
ADE/ESS is excited to share that Arizona’s 2022 IDEA Conference will be held in person from September 7–9, 2022 at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge in Phoenix.
Program Area: Special Education
ADE/ESS is excited to announce keynote speakers and the opening of registration for Arizona's 2022 IDEA Conference.
Program Area: Special Education
In partnership with Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs, ADE/ESS is excited to be able to once again offer free registration for Arizona youth and their families.
Program Area: Special Education
The Vendor/Exhibitor Application for Arizona’s 2023 IDEA Conference: Creating Connections and Strengthening Systems is open through Friday, May 19, 2023.
Program Area: Special Education
ADE/ESS is excited to share that Arizona’s 2024 IDEA Conference will be held from September 4–6, 2024 at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge in Phoenix. ADE/ESS is pleased to request proposals for this year’s conference. Please consider submitting presentations that represent your creative and research-based work. See the attached 2024 IDEA Conference Call for Papers Guidelines for information on how to submit.
Program Area: Special Education
Please email feedback or questions to Arizona’s IDEA Conference Planning Committee at [email protected].
Program Area: Special Education
Program Area: Special Education
Program Area: Special Education
All school districts, charter schools, secure care facilities, and the Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and the Blind (ASDB) are required to annually administer the State Performance Plan Indicator 8 Parent Involvement Survey to parents of students with an Individualized Education Program (IEP). The survey will open on March 1 via ADEConnect Data Surveys.
Program Area: Office of Communications
PHOENIX – Contrary to an assertion made today by Attorney General Kris Mayes, State schools chief Tom Horne says the Department of Education alerted the Attorney General’s office to potentially fraudulent activity on the part of two of the three former Arizona Department of Education employees named in indictments handed up by the state grand jury.
Program Area: Office of Communications
PHOENIX – State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne has released figures showing that more than 900 Arizona schools have declined to answer five academic focus questions related to matters such as ensuring schools do not inappropriately expose students to explicit content and avoiding instruction that promotes racial division such as Critical Race Theory.
Program Area: Special Education
Pursuant to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Section 618, Public Education Agencies (PEAs) must report discipline information.
Program Area: Special Education
The Exceptional Student Services Data Management team is happy to announce an upcoming October 1 Data Collection—Phase III: Non-Reconciliation training. Phase III is only for the PEAs that could not match the number of SPED students submitted in Phase I with the number of SPED students in AzEDS during Phase II. PEAs will receive an email if they qualify for Phase III on March 4, 2024.
