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The Oklahoma Chapter of the Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired (OAER) invites you to take part in an engaging professional development opportunity. Sessions will include hands-on practice with assistive technology for literacy, communication, navigation, and more. You will have the opportunity to simulate the Deaf-Blind experience, consider how living in poverty can affect individuals with disabilities, and learn how individuals who are blind and visually impaired can enrich their lives by getting involved in sports and other recreational activities. We will even learn about cutting-edge research involving inherited retinal degeneration. The conference will be held August 6-7.
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The Oklahoma State Department of Education and Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services is pleased to announce the second year the Oklahoma VI Teacher Institute (OVTI) will be held at Oklahoma School for the Blind (OSB), 3300 Gibson Street, Muskogee Oklahoma.
The institute is a training program offered to certified Oklahoma Teachers seeking training in working with Visually Impaired / Blind students. OVTI is a year-long program designed to provide hands-on training, methodology, tools, resources, and on-going mentoring and access to VI Specialists. The program will begin in July 2019 and be completed by June 30, 2020. Participants will receive reimbursement for travel and lodging ($100 per day) upon final completion of the program. Participants will be required to provide a $100 deposit to secure a spot in the program, which will be fully refunded upon completion of the program.
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Certification is now open. OSDE-SES is extending the deadline until Friday, July 19, because of an unanticipated delay in the open date caused by IT errors. Please note that NO DATA are in the SPED Child Count application for end of year; superintendents are certifying that EdPlan student records and the District Summary Data page are correct.
The Oklahoma Parents Center and the Oklahoma State Department of Education would like to announce two upcoming Regional Behavior Institutes in July 2019. The OPC will be holding the Institutes in Lawton (July 15) and Durant (July 18)!
The institutes are designed to educate parents, families, and professionals in:
- defining and selecting problem behaviors;
- prevention of problem behavior; and
- communicating problem behaviors with parents/school.
Each institute is limited to the first 100 people that register. All others will be placed on a waiting list.
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EdPlan is providing 2-hour webinars in July. The webinar schedule is located in EdPlan on the Main page at the bottom under Documents. Click on the Help Links tab and click on EdPlan July Webinar schedule. Once the document is opened, you can choose which date and time works best.
July Webinar Topics:
Admin New Year Start–Up –This webinar benefits EdPlan Administrators that have the new school year start-up responsibilities. Training will cover set-up for calendars, reporting periods, caseloads, EdPlan Administrator permission and rights, advanced student search, etc.
Goal Progress Monitoring and Summer Updates – This webinar benefits users reporting on student progress. This is an introduction to the new Goal Progress Monitoring (GPM) module which will include setting up goals and objectives for GPM for a new IEP and an existing IEP, connecting goals to services, entering the student data, reports and changes to OK EdPlan over the summer.
EdPlan Connect– This webinar benefits EdPlan Administrators setting up the EdPlan Connect - Parent Portal for the district as well as users that are sharing documents/records with parents via EdPlan Connect.
Goal Progress Monitoring was released the evening of July 8, 2019
As a result of the release, the goal page will have additional fields for Evaluation Procedures and Subtests. For existing IEPs in EdPlan, Evaluation Procedures, Score Types and Target Scores will be mapped from the previous Goal pages for current IEPs using the same Evaluation Procedures, Score Types and Target Scores that are in the new release. There is no need to re-finalize an IEP for Progress Monitoring. In a very small number of current IEP’s, it may be necessary to make some changes in the workspace if any of the Evaluation Procedures, Score Types and Target Scores are missing.
Keep in mind that if you intend to monitor progress through the IEP Progress Monitoring Wizard, each goal and/or objective will require an evaluation procedure, score type and target score, so verify that all three elements are in place for each IEP.
For more information on Goal Progress Monitoring, go to the Main Page in EdPlan under ‘Documents’ and click on the ‘Help Links’. There is a user guide titled ‘Goal Progress Monitoring Guide’.
If you have any questions, please contact the OSDE-SES at 405-521-1461.
Access to free online professional development is available for all users with an OK EdPlan account. From the Main Menu of EdPlan upon initial login, select the word “Pepper” from the far right green main menu bar. Choose “Courses” and select “Oklahoma SPED Courses.”
Courses include:
- IDEA Essentials (OKSE110)
- FERPA and Confidentiality (OKSE114)
- Evaluation and Eligibility (OKSE111)
- Discipline and Manifestation Determination (OKSE115)
- Least Restrictive Environment (OKSE113)
- Early Intervention Services (OKSE112)
- Accommodations (OKSE117)
- Behavior at a Glance (OKSE120)
- Individualized Education Program (OKSE116)
- Secondary Transition (OKSE121)
- Surrogate Parent Training (OKSE123)
- Specially Designed Instruction (OKSE124)
- Early Childhood Environments. (OKSE127)
- ABLE Tech
o Assistive Technology and the Law (OKAT1)
o Introduction to Assistive Technology (OKAT2)
o What is QIAT? (OKAT3)
o Assistive Technology Consideration (OKAT4)
o Assistive Technology Assessment (OKAT5)
o AT and the IEP (OKAT6)
- Interagency Collaboration During the Transition Process (OKST1)
- Transition Assessments Mild/Moderate Disabilities (OKST2)
- *New* Student Involvement in Transition Planning (OKST3)
- Criteria for Alternate Assessment Participation (OKSE119)
- *New* Writing IEP Goals and Objectives (OKSE122)
- Access to OAAP modules are available under “My Resources” from the Pepper main menu page.
IDEA Consolidated Application is now available on the Grants Management System for FY2020.
IDEA FY19 Close Outs are available. Due date is Sept. 1, 2019.
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FY2020 High Needs Applications are now available. The applications are located on our website under Special Education/Finance. Please see attached memorandum for procedures. Due date is July 26, 2019.
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Coming soon: Annual FY2020 September Finance Workshops
FY2020 COOP/Interlocal applications are now available. Please see attached application. Due date is July 26, 2019.
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Educator Portal users with any of the roles listed below now have access to Individual Student Score Reports and Aggregate Reports in Educator Portal.
District Superintendent
District Test Coordinator
District User
Building Test Coordinator
Building User
Teacher role - Archived reports for students on rosters in 2019-2020 only
The 14th annual OTI is almost upon us. They will hold a one-day event in OKC and Owasso on the same exact day. There will be a keynote, breakouts, and a single, long team meeting. Lunch will be provided in each location. Teams will attend the locations designated below. There will not be a call for presentation proposals this year due to the changes. Project 613 funds may also be used.
Monday, October 7, 2019
Moore-Norman Technology Center—South Penn Campus, Oklahoma City, OK
Monday, October 7, 2019
Tulsa Technology Center—Owasso Campus, Owasso, OK
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