Interested school districts can register for the COVID-19 Testing Supply Program. It takes approximately 7-10 business days for ED to process each district’s request to register for the program. Once approved, POCs will receive a confirmation email with information on next steps, which includes attending a 30-minute training on how to order test kits through HHS’s Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response’s Health Partner Ordering Portal (HPOP).
The Child Outcomes Summary Knowledge Check (COS-KC) is now available for all Oklahoma school districts. The COS-KC has a free, online, open-book assessment with 30 multiple-choice items. This validated tool will help districts examine staff knowledge about Early Childhood Outcomes completion (also known as Child Outcome Summaries), and can help guide teams in targeting where additional professional development is needed in support indicator 7 data. Special education directors can expect an email with additional information about using the COS-KC as well as available resources later this week. For more information, please see Child Outcomes Summary Knowledge Check (COS-KC).
The OSDE is seeking community volunteers to provide literacy tutoring to elementary students in small group settings – 1 adult to 3-5 students.
This is an amazing opportunity to support your community, grow relationships with your local school district, and help a child learn to read. If you are interested in getting involved please sign up here.
Applicants must be a current or retired certified teacher to qualify.
Beginning January 2024, the OSDE will launch a high dosage tutoring program that pays teachers $50 per hour and includes growth incentives. Our focus for this program is on 4th grade students at low performing elementary school sites, including sites with a school improvement designation. This program will last 15 weeks and provide expert level tutoring for students from highly trained and experienced teachers.
If you are a current teacher and would like to apply please click here.
Schools who are planning to implement a School-Based Health Center (SBHC), either via telehealth, or a mobile clinic or plan to add oral or mental health to an existing SBHC will have the opportunity to earn a stipend (about $5,000+) for their schools. The stipend can be used to buy supplies, extra duty pay for the school staff person assigned to assist with the clinic, or a start for an RN-School Nurse Salary.
Please email Gayle Black, Alicia Lincoln, or you may call 405-426-8082 for assistance.
You can find the most updated OAAP information for the 2023-2024 school year in the OAAP Memo. Find and access information regarding Kite User Accounts, OAAP IEP reminders, the newly updated OAAP parent brochures, professional development resources, and more in the memo.
If your district is anticipating more than 1.0 percent of your testing population (Grades 3-8, and 11) will participate in the OAAP/DLM testing in the 2024 spring operational window, the survey: “2024 Justification for Exceeding 1.0 % in OAAP Participation” must be completed online by March 1, 2024.
If your district is not expecting to exceed the cap, no action is required. The survey is designed to be completed by someone at the administrative level with special education and state testing knowledge. It may be completed by either the District Testing Coordinator, Special Education Director, or someone in a similar position.
All IDEA ARP fund expenditure reports must be submitted to OSDE-SES by January 28, 2024.
If assistance is needed, please contact your finance specialist.
Based on new legislation, Oklahoma has a new graduation pathway for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. The new state-defined alternate diploma is available for the school year 2023-2034. Following graduation, students who graduate with an alternate diploma must be afforded a Free Appropriate Public Education through the school year in which the student turns 22 years of age. This change will require districts to provide additional services through the Extended Secondary Transition Program. More information is available regarding the following:
The Oklahoma State Department of Education, Office of Special Education Services will continue to hold Secondary Transition/Alternate Diploma Collaborative meetings monthly beginning in August.
Zoom meetings will typically be held on the 4th Thursday of each month at 3:00 p.m., except for holidays/school vacation weeks.
The schedule of monthly sessions and known topics through the November of 2023 are listed below:
Join us via Zoom for all sessions scheduled.
Meeting ID: 160 702 2023
Passcode: 393839
REMINDER: Project 615 budget applications must be submitted by December 1, 2023. Districts not submitting an application by December 1 will forfeit their allocation.
OSDE-SES is providing Transition Technical Assistance through a temporary, part-time Secondary Transition Program Specialist. Assistance to schools/districts will be available through various formats to include e-mail, phone, virtual (via Microsoft Teams) and/or in-person. Please use this link to complete a Transition Technical Assistance Request for your school/district regarding Secondary Transition topics, including the new Alternate Diploma and 18-22 Transition Programs. For brief questions and/or more information about Transition Technical Assistance, please contact Claudia Beckner or Lori Chesnut.
We are pleased to announce an opportunity for intervener training in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Department of Education – Special Education Services and the Oklahoma Deaf Blind Technical Assistance Project are collaborating to support and train paraprofessionals to become interveners and professional teachers to learn about intervener services.
Please see the flyer for more information about this opportunity.
Have questions about your district’s recent special education determination?
If you continue to have questions after reviewing this resources, please reach out to the compliance team.
EdPlan has a suite of tools and services from the Public Consulting Group (PCG) that helps document a plan for student success, not only for students with disabilities in special education but including students who are non-disabled regarding both academic and behavior. The OSDE has purchased the OKMTSS suite which is EDPlan’s early warning and intervention management system with web-based tools designed to identify students at risk, then seamlessly create and manage academic and behavior interventions within a framework of multi-tiered supports and services. These tools integrate all relevant data sources to generate insightful reports that answer critical questions about individual students, classrooms, grade levels, and school sites, providing data-driven planning in the areas of reading, math, and behavior.
If your district is interested, there will be a live webinar to conduct an overview of the EDPlan OKMTSS Intervention Management regarding the tools and interventions within the system. The live webinar is repeated over four different days for your district to choose from: December 14, 2023 from Noon to 1:30 p.m. The targeted participants are members of the district's MTSS leadership team, which would include at least one general education teacher.
Please use the OKMTSS Flyer to join the training session.
We hope you can join us for the 2024 Oklahoma Law Conference. This conference is designed for general and special education administrators and teachers, service providers, lawyers and others involved in developing and supporting special education services for children with disabilities and their families.
Most sessions will require attendees to have a background in special education procedures and practice in order to apply the information to work or advocacy responsibilities. Registration is complimentary.
The 2024 OKMTSS Winter Conference will be focusing on Evidence-Based Practices with sessions in a "workshop" format to teach practices for quality teaming, literacy and math instruction, and behavior intervention.
For more information, please see the 2024 OKMTSS Flyer.
The Oklahoma School for the Deaf is pleased to present the 2024 statewide Deaf Education Conference.
Professionals in the field of deaf education will come together, engage in dynamic workshops, connect with colleagues, and identify pathways to empowering students through access, language, and literacy. Attendees will include early interventionists, early childhood specialists, teachers of the deaf, and educational interpreters.
The pre-conference will be held June 3-4, 2024.
The conference will be held June 5-6, 2024.
Registration is now open.
The Oklahoma State Department of Education, Office of Special Education Services will be holding their CPI 2-day Regional Trainings for you to send 4 employees to get blue card certified.
ONLY 40 people will be able to attend each session, so make sure you register ASAP! Waiting lists have been opened for spots that are sold out.
NOTE: A waitlist has opened for the sessions, if the session is full follow the link to join the waitlist.
2024 - Second Semester -
- January 11-12, 2024 - Tulsa, Oklahoma - Tulsa Tech, Riverside Campus
- February 8-9, 2024 - Lawton, Oklahoma - Bishop Public Schools, Gym
- March 14-15, 2024 - Afton, Oklahoma - Northeast Technology - Afton Campus
- April 11-12, 2024 - Guymon, Oklahoma - Guymon Jr. High
CPI is approved through Project 613 for substitutes, travel, and lodging. Keep in mind lodging must be at least 60 miles one way. Questions can be directed to Megan Salisbury.
This training will focus on using assessment results to develop meaningful transition plans for students with mild/moderate disabilities.
Participants will:
- Learn to incorporate transition assessment results into the IEP
- Review case studies
- Analyze transition assessment results
- Use assessment results to identify specific transition strengths and needs and develop postsecondary goals, annual transition goals, services, coordinated activities, and courses of study.
This training will focus on using assessment results to develop meaningful transition plans for students with severve/profound disabilities.
Participants will:
- Learn to incorporate transition assessment results into the IEP
- Review case studies
- Analyze transition assessment results
- Use assessment results to identify specific transition strengths and needs and develop postsecondary goals, annual transition goals, services, coordinated activities, and courses of study.
The OSDE-SES is pleased to offer five regional trainings to empower educators to effectively teach transition skills and monitor student progress. This training will demonstrate how to implement effective instructional practices to teach transition skills to students with significant cognitive and adaptive disabilities who participate in the Oklahoma Alternate Assessment Program (OAAP). Special educators and paraprofessionals will learn to use data collection, task analysis (forward and backward chaining), and prompting (when and how to use prompts, how to fade prompts) to enable students to make progress toward their postsecondary and annual transition goals.
If your district employs educational interpreters, please verify that they are on the OSDE Educational Interpreter Registry. All interpreters in an educational setting are required to be on the registry and are required to obtain yearly CEUs.
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