A new/revised Summary of Performance Guidance Brief is now available.
The 2023-2024 Vision Screening Report is now open on Single Sign-On. Each year, the Oklahoma State Department of Education requires schools to report the vision screening results of Kindergarten, first grade, and third grade students, in response to state law 70 O.S. § 1210.284. The Vision Screening report is due June 14, 2024.
If you have questions or concerns, contact Kellie Carter, Manager of School Nursing Programs.
If your district is serving students with special educational needs who are currently receiving instruction in detention facilities, group homes, or hospitals, the OSDE-SES is offering web-based curricula at no cost to the district. The OSDE-SES has partnered with Edmentum to provide free access to Courseware, Exact Path, and Study Island to special education students who receive their educational services in alternative placements such as detention facilities, group homes, or hospital settings. If you're interested, have questions, or need more information, please contact Elana Grissom.
The Oklahoma State Department of Education hereby notifies all interested parties of its intent to make available and provide information about P.L. 108-446 IDEA Parts B and C, FFY 2025 grant application, for early intervention [infants and toddlers with disabilities, ages birth to three (0-3)], and children and youth with disabilities ages three through twenty-one (3-21) in Oklahoma.
The first draft of the P.L. 108-446 FFY 2024 grant application has been developed for public review and comment prior to the final draft being submitted to the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs. The P.L. 108-446 FFY 2025 grant application includes provisions for assuring the state has policies and procedures in effect to meet the eligibility requirements of parts B and C of the act, as well as funds under parts B and C of the act.
For information on how to submit a public comment, please view the attached notice.
Register now for the Open Door Assistance in May.
The Special Education Data Team is also available to answer questions and review data concerns at (405) 521-3351.
The FY2025 Assurances are now available online. Assurances must be completed prior to July 1st.
You can access the Assurances through your Single Sign On.
- Sign into your Single Sign On
- Select: Grants Management/Expenditure Reporting
- Select: Page on the GMS Access
- Change Fiscal Year: 2025
- Proceed: Create your Assurances
When completing the FY25 Assurances, districts should be sure their nine digit zip code corresponds with their physical address. The physical address should match the districts physical address in SAM.gov.
New memorandum regarding changes and updates to the application for High Needs, Tier I and Tier II. Please contact your finance specialist for any assistance
You can find the most updated OAAP information for the 2023-2024 school year in the OAAP Memo. Find and access information regarding No Test Management Access, DLM TIP Sheets, Manuals for Testing, Spring Testing Reminders, and more in the memo.
Information from these two short surveys will be used to plan for future Alternate Diploma Collaborative activities. Please take this opportunity and spend a few minutes to provide feedback to guide the future of the Alternate Diploma Collaborative (Zoom) meetings and to share your district’s Lessons Learned and Future Focus related to the implementation of the Alternate Diploma and 18-22 Extended Transition Programs/Programming/Services. Some information gleaned from the Lessons Learned & Future Focus survey will be shared at the final Alternate Diploma Collaborative on May 23, 2024. Thank you in advance for you time and valuable feedback!!!
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 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:
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April 25, 2024
- - Resources for Career Readiness & Career Exploration - Nathan Brubaker, OK Career Guide & Theresa Shaklee, OK College Start
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May 23, 2024
- Alternate Diploma & 18-22 Extended Transition Programs: Lessons Learned & Future Focus – OSDE-SES, Districts & Transition Partners
Join us via Zoom for all sessions scheduled.
Meeting ID: 160 702 2023
Passcode: 393839
Indicator 14: Post-School Outcomes Survey is the “Percent of youth who had IEPs, are no longer in secondary school and who have been competitively employed, enrolled in some type of postsecondary school, or both, within one year of leaving high school.” The Oklahoma State Department of Education, Special Education Services (OSDE-SES) annually surveys exiters (students who exit the IDEA) aged 16 and up a year after they graduate, drop out, or age out. The results are reflected on the annual District Determination Profile (DDP). It is important to have a high percentage of exiters participate in the Post-School Outcomes (PSO) Survey to ensure that the data are representative of the State and districts and useful in improving effective transition programs and services. Districts may opt-in to Survey their former students to reconnect and raise PSO response rates.
Watch the OSDE-SES and Data-Driven Enterprises Indicator 14: Post-School Outcomes Informational Webinar to learn more about opting in to survey your former students to raise your response rates and to find out what they have been doing since leaving high school!
Check out the updated the updated PSO Guidance Briefs.
The Office of Special Education Services at the Oklahoma State Department has developed a state-systemic improvement plan (SSIP) to support educators who serve kindergarten through third grade students, with a focus on students with special needs and early literacy outcomes.
We are excited to offer an opportunity for the coming school year for school sites who educate students K-3, within the State of Oklahoma, who have scored 0% proficiency for third-grade reading based on state testing proficiency for students with IEPs.
What is the State Systemic Improvement Plan (SSIP)? Website link
 The program features three tiers of participation:
- Tier 1:
- Universal Supports: Access to templates and protocols for early literacy interventions and evidence-based practices. You can access the Universal Supports through OK Multi-Tiered System of Supports | Oklahoma State Department of Education.
- Sequenced Professional Development: Access to a professional development sequence, intended to support educators with early literacy outcomes.
- Tier 2:
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Strategic Leadership Coaching: To support development of a site MTSS leadership team, aide in implementing MTSS for K-3 early literacy, continuous coaching. Application due June 1, 2024.
- Tier 3:
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Instructional Coaching: Application to access direct, individual support for educators working with K-3 students, supporting early literacy. Educators must be concurrently participating in the professional development sequence. Application due June 1, 2024.
The application for participation has been included in the email as links. On-time deadline is June 1, 2024, and late-acceptance will continue until August 1, 2024, or until the capacity for the program has been reached.
We are hosting informative virtual meetings to answer your questions and provide insight into this program! The informative meetings will be the same session but offered at different times to accommodate your schedule:
When: April 19th, 12-1 PM
Register in advance for this meeting
When: April 30th, 3-4 PM
Register in advance for this meeting
When: May 8th, 8-9 AM
Register in advance for this meeting
For more information to determine if this program is right for your school site, please reach out to Alexa Hudak to set up a phone conversation to answer any questions you might have.
We are eager for your participation!
OKMTSS EDPlan Training For All Districts
OSDE is offering a FREE intervention management tool for all districts. This tool is intended to support district and site level intervention tracking that schools are already completing. Weekly sessions regarding how to use the OKMTSS on EDPlan data management system's intervention platform are open for all educators to attend. We will have two sessions in February, three sessions in March and five sessions in April. These training sessions will provide time for general education teachers to learn how to create a group of students for interventions, how to create an individual student intervention plan targeted to evidence-based intervention protocols provided within the platform, and to see how the progress monitoring data is graphed to provide the visual story necessary to determine if a student is or is not responding to the intervention.
OSDE invites general education teacher to access OKMTSS on EDPlan to learn the function of the system this spring, so that when the system is integrated with all of the district's Student Information System (SIS) across the state starting in the 2024-2025 school year, teachers will have a good understand of how to utilize OKMTSS on EDPlan. Below are the registration links for the training sessions. Please consider sending as many general education teachers as possible to these sessions. OSDE seeks to ensure the platform is accessible for all educators so they can practice this spring, in order to prepare for the coming school year use of the OKMTSS on EDPlan system.
For those interested, please do not update any user types prior to the training.
These rescheduled training sessions will focus on using assessment results to develop meaningful transition plans for students with significant support needs (severe/profound) who participate in the OAAP and 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.
OSDE-SES recommends that participants complete the Secondary Transition for Students with Disabilities self-paced course in OSDE Connect before attending this training. This course is recommended for teachers/providers who are new to secondary transition and as a refresher for experienced staff.
Since the trainings were not full, registration for both sessions is still open!
If you wish to attend, please register for your preferred session below. Sessions are from 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM:
Questions about Indicator 7 results? Join us for an in-depth discussion of this indicator including targets, calculations, and responding to results.
Thursday, May 9, 2024 from 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Register NOW!
Open Door for Early Childhood Outcomes data.
This month the Office of English Language Proficiency will be hosting an EL Lunch and Learn to gather stakeholder feedback regarding Alternate ACCESS Accountability and Reclassification.
We are requesting that both LEA EL and SPED administration attend to fully represent dually identified students.
Join us for 30 minutes, as we share information about the Alternate ACCESS standards setting and its potential impact on Accountability and Reclassification. You may register below.
You are invited to a ZoomGov meeting.
When: May 9, 2024, at 12:30 PM
Register in advance for this meeting here.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
OSDE presents a one-day, opportunity for districts to participate in a hands-on
Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) Fidelity of Implementation
Rubric self-assessment. The self-assessment requires a district-level
MTSS Leadership team to assess the district’s implementation level of
the specific essential components necessary to have an MTSS framework
for academics and behavior.
Please see the OKMTSS Fidelity of Implementation Flyer for more information and registration.
The Oklahoma State Department of Education, the State Personnel Development Grant, Project AWARE, the State Systemic Improvement Plan- B, and other collaborating offices, are hosting the MTSS Summer Conference. The intent of this conference is to support educators in a focused approach to align and implement an MTSS systems. The conference is not intended to only consist of background knowledge but to provide actionable steps and information to implement high-quality implementations for all students.
When:
Pre-Conference- June 24th; 12:30-4:30pm
- Learn the MTSS Frameworks
- Pyramid Model
- Resources
Main Conference- June 25-26; 8:00-4:30pm
- Keynote Session- OKMTSS on EDPlan
- Breakout groups
- Networking/Connection Sessions
*OPTIONAL* Virtual Conference- June 25-26; 8:00-4:30pm
- Live webinar style sessions
- Virtual Engagement
Register your MTSS teams today! Registration is limited! Participants attending the in-person conference will leave the conference with ongoing conference materials! We look forward to connecting with you!
For more information about this conference, please reach out to Alexa Hudak.
Beginning with the incoming 2024-2025 school year districts requesting training in Nonviolent Crisis Intervention or Nonviolent Crisis Intervention With Advanced Physical Skills are encouraged to send an employee to become a Certified Trainer for CPI. Once certified to become a trainer the said employee will be certified to train others in their place of employment. Beginning with the forthcoming school year OSDE will be transitioning to Verbal Interventions only and will not train individuals in the disengagements or restraints in CPI. Please note the dates, locations, and the information for contacting the CPI Senior Territory Manager for Oklahoma below.
Location and Date:
- Oklahoma City
- May 29, 2024-May 31, 2024
- August 20, 2024-August 22, 2024
- December 10, 2024-December 12, 2024
- Oklahoma City - APS (Advanced)
- June 4, 2024-June 7, 2024
- Tulsa
- May 14, 2024-May 16, 2024
- August 6, 2024-August 8, 2024
- October 15, 2024-October 17, 2024
Who to Contact:
Jaime Schroeder, Schedule a Call
Senior Territory Account Manager at CPI for Kansas, Oklahoma & Nebraska
Crisis Prevention Institute
10850 W. Park Place, Suite 250 • Milwaukee, WI 53224
Direct 414.441.1750 • crisisprevention.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jaime-schroeder
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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