OSDE-SES continues its partnership with PCG-Medicaid billing services and Presence this year. Presence is the leading provider of live, online therapy and evaluation services in pre–K–12 schools and has delivered over 6 million sessions to students around the country.
You may contract directly with Presence to meet any of their evaluation and/or therapy needs.
However, if your district signs up to bill Medicaid through PCG, your district may be eligible to access free evaluations through Presence.
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Jeni Robison for more information about Medicaid billing
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Kelly Wright for more information about services through Presence
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).
You can find the most updated OAAP information for the 2023-2024 school year in the OAAP Memo. Find and access information regarding the New First Contact Survey, OAAP resources for testing, 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 are listed below:
Join us via Zoom for all sessions scheduled.
Meeting ID: 160 702 2023
Passcode: 393839
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.
The January EDPlan Schedule and Registration links can be accessed from EDPlan ‘Home’ page in the 'Documents' panel and under the blue 'Help Links' tab.
Each training is scheduled for 2 hours. Below is a list of the different trainings:
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Introduction to EDPlan -This training is recommended for new users prior to other process training such as the Eligibility Process, IEP Process and Section 504 Process.
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EDPlan Administrator Training – This training is recommended for new EDPlan Administrators and will cover responsibilities in EDPlan including impersonation rights, calendar set- up, reporting periods, how to add and remove staff, caseloads, updating the district calendar, etc.
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Eligibility Process – This training is recommended for new users responsible for Eligibility Determination Process. This training will cover Introduction to the Eligibility Process in EdPlan, how to complete the RED, how to complete the Parent Consent, Documenting Assessments, how to complete a MEEGS and running reports.
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IEP Process - This training is recommended for new users responsible for Student IEP’s and will cover creating a compliant IEP in EdPlan, organizing the student caseload, IEP-at-a- Glance, how to Batch Print and creating a contact log
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504 Process - This training is recommended for new users responsible for 504 Eligibility and 504 Student Plans. This training will cover documenting 504 Eligibility in EDPlan creating a 504 Student Plan and batch printing.
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Goal Progress Monitoring and Progress Reports - This training is recommended for new users responsible for documenting progress of goals and objectives in EDPlan. The training will cover documenting progress for goals and objectives, creating progress graphs, reports, and progress reports.
Please join us for an informal discussion of chapters 5-8 of The Writing Rope, by Joan Seditia on Wednesday, January 10, 2024.
This is the second session in the series; however, prior attendance is not required to attend subsequent sessions.
- Registration is available
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Previous Session Slide Deck with materials from the Unraveling the Rope: Intensive Literacy Practices Conference.
For more information, please contact Alexa Hudak.
Charting the Life Conference is a framework developed to help individuals with disabilities and families at any age or state of life think about what they need to know, identify how to find or develop supports, and discover what it takes to live the lives they want to live. Individuals and families may focus on their current situation and stage of life but may also find it helpful to look ahead to start thinking about what they can do or learn now that will help build an inclusive productive life in the future.
Join us on January 23, 2024 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM.
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.
January 23, 2024
9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
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.
NDPC offers online courses in each of the 15 research-based Effective Strategies for Dropout Prevention. The 15 Effective Strategies are recognized as the highest-impact interventions for graduation rate improvement. Each online course takes participants through an exploration of what the strategy is, how it fits within the 15 Effective Strategies model, and the research supporting it, allowing participants to envision for themselves how the strategy can be implemented well within their schools and communities. Participants investigate successful implementations across the country, potential benefits and barriers to implementing the strategy, and key implementation characteristics to consider in setting up their programs. Each course costs $99 except for the overview course, which costs $149.00. Each self-paced course takes 60 to 120 minutes, except for the overview course, which takes about 6 hours to complete.
Project 613 Funds are available for the NDPC Online Courses!
For more information and a list of courses, visit Online Professional Development in Dropout Prevention Strategies.
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 -
- *RESCHEDULED TBD* - 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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