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__**Academy Overview**__ Agenda

[[file:daily schedule 2012.docx]]
Course Requirements - Opening Power Point - Presenter Bios - Participant List - District Profiles - Sorted Alphabetically: Sorted by Income Sorted by Sped Rate Pre-Academy Survey - @http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DRCVNST

__**Summer Reading Articles**__ Summer Reading List - Reading List Questions - 1. Burdette, Paula, Ph.D., “Special Education Value-Added Performance Evaluation Systems: A State-level Focus,” // in // Forum, November 2011. 2. Jennings, Jack, “Reflections on a Half-Century of School Reform: Why Have We Fallen Short and Where Do We Go From Here?” // Center on Education Policy, // January 2012. 3. Fuchs, Douglas & Lynn and Stecker, Pamela, ** “The ‘Blurring’ of Special Education in a New Continuum of General Education Placements and Services,” ** // Council for Exceptional Children //, Vol. 76, No. 3, pp 301-323, 2010. 4. Lytle, James H., “Where is Leadership Heading?”//Phi Delta Kappan Magazine//, May 2012. 5. Levenson, Nathan, ** “Something Has Got to Change: Rethinking Special Education,” ** Future of American Education Project, Working Paper 2011-01. 6. McLaughlin, Margaret, ** “Evolving Interpretations of Educational Equity and Students with Disabilities,” ** // Council for Exceptional Children //, Vol. 76, No., 3, pp. 265-278, 2010. 7. Leana,Carrie R., “The Missing Link in School Reform,” // Stanford Social Innovation Review //, Fall 2011. // 8. Delta Kappan // Darling-Hammond, Linda, Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey, Haertel, Edward and Rothstein, Jesse, “Evaluating Teacher Evaluation,” // Phi Magazine //, March 2012. 9. The Wallace Foundation, “Reimagining the School Day: More Time for Learning,” A Wallace Foundation National Forum, May 16 – 17, 2011. 10. Serpa, Maria de Lourdes, Dr., **“An Imperative for Change: Bridging Special and Language Learning Education to Ensure a Free and Appropriate Education in the Least Restrictive Environment for ELLs with Disabilities in Massachusetts,”** The Mauricio Gaston Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy, U Mass Boston. 11. American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law, Education Law Center and Juvenile Law Center, "Foster Care & Education, Issue Brief," Legal Center for Foster Care & Education, May 2012.  12. Waters, J. Timothy, Ed.D. & Marzano, Robert J., Ph.D., ** "School District Leadership that Works: The Effect of Superintendent Leadership on Student Achievement - A Working Paper." ** Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), September 2006.

__**Data Driven Success**__ 1. Data Driven Success Power Point Quaglia Institute link: http://www.qisa.org/ Mira Via link: http://www.miravia.com/

__**Action Planning**__ Action Planning Process Power Point

__**Sharing Carousel**__ This section is for Academy Members to share files with each other. If you would like to submit a file to the Sharing Carousel, please send it via email to tpetry@wested.org. If you have questions, you can contact Tanner at 802-951-8221.
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__**Collaborative Program Evaluation**__ Norms of Collaboration Collaborative Evaluation power point Collaborative Evaluation Website - Resources http://www.neirtec.com/evaluation/

__**Legal Update and Conflict Resolution**__ Legal Update Power Point 2012 Parent IEP Process OSEP Memo 090-02 - Correction of Non-Compliance - APR Indicators Chart- Report to the Legislature: Students with Disabilities Annual Report 2009-2010 - Massachusetts Part B SPP - Massachusetts Part B APR - Determination Response Table - 2012 Massachusetts Part B Determination Letter - [|OCR] Legal Update Power Point http://www.directionservice.org/cadre/ Post-Dracut Due Process Decision - Court of Appeals Decision regarding reimbursement to parents who had moved out of state Report on Restraint and Seclusion

__**Change Game**__ References Document - Change Game power point-

__**Common Core**__ 1. Link to MA DESE Common Core site: http://www.doe.mass.edu/candi/commoncore/ 2. Link to common core standards http://www.corestandards.org/

__**Recent Reports and Resources**__ 1. Report: //State of Learning Disabilities// (2011). National Center for Learning Disabilities 2. Report: // Survey Finds Special Ed Impacted by Poor Economy // (2011). CEC 3. Report: //Challenging Change:// //How Schools and Districts are Improving the Performance of Special Education Students// (2008). National Center for Learning Disabilities. 4. Research and Policy Brief: // High Quality Professional Development for All Teachers: Effectively Allocating Resources // (2011). National Comprehensive Center for Teache Quality. 5. Report: //Met Life Survey of the American Teacher: Preparing Students for College and Careers// (2011). 6. Report: //Shifting Trends in Special Education// (2011). Fordham Institute 7. Research and Policy Brief: // Challenges in Evaluating Special Education and English Language Learner Specialists. // National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality. 8. IDEA Fact Sheet: //Determination Letters on State Implementation of the IDEA// (2011) 9. Research Brief: //Connecting Leadership to Learning// (2010). The Wallace Foundation. 10. Report: //Learning from Leadership: Investigating the Links to Improved Student Learning// (2010). The Wallace Foundation. 11. Reducing Behavior Problems in the Elementary School Classroom - 12. 13. Issues of Special Education Effective Practices, Spending, Equity and Costs 14.

15. You Tube link for IDEA version of //My Girl// http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8PMGGU-neQ&noredirect=1 Resource List (Hornus) -

__**October 11th Session**__ October 11, 2012 Session Agenda - Tom Hehir power point The Seven Norms of Collaboration -

__**December 6th Session**__ Compass Point Activity Ladder of Inference The Five Whys

__**Transition**__ 1. ies Report on post-high school outcomes  2. Secondary Transition Resources 3. NSTTAC Indicator 13 Checklist - Q & A  4. NSTTAC Checklist 5. NSTTAC checklist (enhanced) 6. Transition Power Point 7. Link to NSTTAC [|NSTTAC website]

__**Webinars**__

Link to REL archived Webinars http://www.relnei.org/events.webinararchives.php Link to CADRE for archived Webinars http://www.directionservice.org/cadre

Choose Webinar of your choice and answer questions on form below. Documents for Using web-based resources webinar