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Program Area: Special Education
The ADE/ESS Secondary Transition team would like to thank those who participated in the 2020 PSO data collection season. The PSO Survey helps PEAs collect and report information to meet Indicator 14 requirements. Between June 1 and September 30 of this year, PEAs statewide worked hard to reconnect with former students who had IEPs when they exited high school during the 2018–2019 school year. Through their efforts, 6,659 former students responded to the survey for a 78.5% participation rate with 72.5% of respondents engaged in postsecondary education/training or employment. A more detailed view of this year's PSO Survey results will be posted on the PSO Website by October 31, 2020.
Program Area: Special Education
During these unprecedented times, education technology has been called upon to play a central role to support teaching and learning. This webinar will feature short user-case video demos of five edtech resources that are ready now for use in special education, as well as conversations by practitioners and experts about the role of edtech in meeting the needs children and students with or at risk for disabilities during “the new normal” in education.
Program Area: Special Education
ADE/ESS is pleased to announce that the Compensatory Services Claims application is now open for the second wave of applications through the ESS Portal of ADEConnect and the cap for funds has been increased for each public education agency (PEA). Each PEA can now apply for one or multiple compensatory education claims up to $25,000 for each PEA.
Program Area: Special Education
Information on upcoming math professional learning with general and special education teachers who teach mathematics.
Program Area: Special Education
ESS/Early Childhood Special Education is pleased to announce the 6th Annual Early Childhood Special Education Summit on February 11—12, 2021, to be conducted as a virtual event. This year, the conference is sponsored by ADE/ESS, in collaboration with Arizona’s Early Intervention Program (AzEIP) within the Arizona Department of Economic Security.
Program Area: Special Education
The SPED07 report is now available within the October 1 Data Collection (ODC) application for Phase II: Reconciliation.
Program Area: Special Education
The SPED99 – SPED Orphan Data Report is a new report now available in the AzEDS Portal. This report will aid PEAs in finding special education (SPED) data in AzEDS that may have had the corresponding enrollment data removed. When enrollment data is deleted for a given student but the SPED data remains in AzEDS, this is defined as orphan data. Often this orphan data can result in errors for your PEA or other PEAs, that is unseen in your INTEG15 report, since the enrollment data is not present.
Program Area: Special Education
In this free webinar, we will explore multiple representations to build conceptual understanding of operations with integers. We will apply and extend previous understandings of operations with whole numbers to create zero-sum pairs. Additionally, we will demonstrate how to develop grit and creative problem-solving with accessible low-floor/high-ceiling tasks.
Program Area: Special Education
Further clarification is being provided regarding students attending ASDB sites and the ESS October 1 Data Collection. Regardless if a student attends an ASDB site or a site within your PEA, you would include the student in your Phase I Verification Count if the student was provided services on October 1st.
Program Area: Special Education
Please join ADE/ESS for these exciting IDEA Conference session offerings
Program Area: Special Education
November 29, 2020, marked the 45th anniversary of President Gerald Ford signing the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (Public Law 94-142) into law. The 1990 amendment to Public Law 94-142 changed the law’s name to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
Program Area: Special Education
ADE/ESS is pleased to announce that registration for the Arizona Education Virtual Job Fair is now open! Join us online on Saturday, February 27, 2021. Registration is open to Arizona public school districts and charter schools on a first-come, first-served basis.
Program Area: Special Education
Please review the October update from the ESS Program Management team and forward to your Business Manager
Program Area: Special Education
Are you looking for ways to shift the focus from compliance alone to educational programming designed for student progress toward meeting challenging goals? Are you interested in learning more about an opportunity to partner with an Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)-funded technical assistance center that provides information, resources, tools, and services to support local education agencies from kindergarten through secondary transition?
Program Area: Special Education
ESS Data Management has released two new training videos. These training videos focuses on Phase II: Reconciliation so individuals can pick and choose the relevant training videos that meets their needs.As a friendly reminder, please continue checking the SPED07 report on a regular basis during this time, even if your PEA’s counts reconcile early in the process. Please ensure Phase II: Reconciliation is completed in AzEDS by Friday, January 15, 2021 at 5:00 P.M. Note there is no submission action for Phase II. Ensuring your Verification and SPED07 counts reconcile on January 15th will indicate completion.
Program Area: Special Education
Registration for the 2021 Arizona Education Virtual Job Fair is closing soon! Registration is open to Arizona public school districts and charter schools on a first-come, first-served basis until Wednesday, January 27, 2021.
Program Area: Special Education
All school districts and charter schools 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 January 19 ADEConnect ESS Data Surveys. For more information, visit the survey web page.
Program Area: Special Education
Vouchered students are normally reported by the district of residence (DOR) that is responsible for his or her education. In certain circumstances for students receiving services through an ASDB regional cooperative, a student may be attending a public school outside of the DOR.
Program Area: Special Education
Information about FY2020 High-Cost Child Claim.
Program Area: Special Education
To ensure compliance with federal reporting and program requirements for the fiscal year 2021, the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) is compiling data for student's special education data on October 1, 2020. Reports will be prepared using special education data that has been submitted by Arizona school districts, charter schools, and other public education agencies (PEAs) via their respective student information systems to ADE and has Passed Integrity in AzEDS accordingly. This system is a part of the October 1 Enrollment Data.
