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Information on Focused Monitoring

• Accountability in Special Education - A Walking Tour

• Presentation: 22nd Annual Report to Congress

• Presentation: Educational Benefit

• Presentation: How did we get here?

• Presentation: An Advocacy for Effectiveness Model

• Presentation: NASP - Making Numbers Work

• "What is this thing called monitoring?" is the classic article by Dr. David Rostetter in which he coins the term "Focused Monitoring" and describes principles and procedures for implementing a focused monitoring process.

• Presentation: Hurdles, Obstacles, and Challenges:  Using Data to Focus Accountability Efforts

• Presentation: Focused Monitoring - An Example From Part B - School-Age (Monitoring Stakeholder Meeting;  June 3, 2002)

National Monitoring Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah

• Joint Presentation (LA, CA, FLA and NM) - Part 1

• Joint Presentation (LA, CA, FLA and NM) - Part 2

• Joint Presentation (LA, CA, FLA and NM) - Part 3

• Presentation:  Sanctions - What if Nothing Works?

• Presentation:  Serenity

California  

• Presentation:  California Monitoring

Colorado

• Presentation:  Your Opportunity of a Lifetime:  Converging Forces and Support for Genuine Change

Connecticut

• Presentation:  October 8, 2003 Keynote

Florida  

• Presentation:  Presentation to Florida Special Education Advisory Committee

• Presentation:  What's a Director to Do?  Reflections on the Commission

• Presentation:  Florida Families

• Overview Presentation - Focused Monitoring

• Presentation:  Florida Data

• Presentation:  Florida Program 

• Presentation:  From Access to Results:  A New Era for Special Education in Florida

Great Lakes Regional Resource Center 

• Presentation:  Improving Results Through Monitoring in Special Education

Illinois  

• 2004 SELA Keynote

• Enhancing Accountability for Special Education in Illinois - 2004

• St. Charles Presentation

• Presentation:  LADSE 2003

• Presentation to LADSE Leadership

• Presentation:  SELA Region 4 Workshop - Morning Session

• Presentation:  SELA Region 4 Workshop - Afternoon Session

• Presentation to Illinois State Board of Education

• Presentation:  The Challenge in Illinois:  Implementing I.D.E.A

• Presentation:  Improving Results Through Monitoring in Special Education

• Presentation:  Getting Reauthorization Right This Time

Louisiana  

• Presentation:  Update on Reauthorization of IDEA

• Presentation:  LSPA Keynote Address

• Presentation:  Louisiana Focused Monitoring

• Presentation:  Louisiana Presents to OSEP

• Presentation:  Improving Special Education in Louisiana

• Presentation for the Louisiana Supervisor's Conference (Short version); July 31, 2002

• Presentation:  Pupil Appraisal Conference

Maryland

• Presentation:  A New Era

• Presentation:  Keynote Address for 2002 Maryland Administrator's Conference

Michigan

• Keynote for MAASE Conference

• Using Data for Value-Added Improvement

• March 13 Presentations

• Presentation:  A New Era:  Revitalizing Special Education for Children and Their Families

Mississippi

• Presentation:  2004 Principals' Conference

• Emotional Disturbance in Mississippi

• Presentation:  Mississippi Parents Conference

• Presentation:  All Means All:  Leadership Factors Ensuring No Child Is Left Behind

• Presentation:  Improving (Special) Education in Mississippi:  Ensuring
  Results for Children with Disabilities and Their Families 

• Presentation:  Second Mississippi Stakeholder's Meeting

• Presentation:  Keynote Address at 2002 Special Education Conference

• Presentation:  October 1, 2002 Meeting of Steering Committee

• Presentation:  October 1, 2002 Self-Assessment

New Hampshire

• Presentation:  Parent Involvement

New Mexico  

• Presentation: New Mexico 1

• Presentation: New Mexico 2

• Presentation: New Mexico 3

• Presentation: Advisory Overview

• Presentation for Stakeholders 1

• Presentation for Stakeholders 2

• Presentation for Second Stakeholders Meeting

• Presentation for Stakeholders Tune Up

• Presentation: Emphasis on Results (Part C)

• Presentation: Is There a Better Way? (Part C)

  2001 Training of New Mexico Monitoring Teams

• Presentation: Training Leaders for Focused Monitoring in New Mexico

• Presentation: Team Leaders' Orientation 1

• Presentation: Team Leaders' Orientation 2

• Presentation: Team Leaders and Teaming

• Presentation: Monitoring Team Orientation 1

• Presentation: Monitoring Team Orientation 2

• Presentation: It's a Review

• Presentation: Investigating for Compliance

• Presentation: Transition to Focused Monitoring in New Mexico

Pennsylvania

• Presentation:  2004 Keynote Address to Association of School Psychologists in Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

• Presentation:  10th Annual RIDE Summer Leadership Institute

• Presentation:  Special Discussion on the Role of IQ Testing

• Presentation:  Keynote Address for Rhode Island College Special Education Conference

Washington

• Presentation:  What Counts in Washington?

Wisconsin

• Presentation:  School Psychology Keynote

• Presentation:  What Counts in Wisconsin:  Getting Results from Our Investment (or) Focused Monitoring of Special Education Programs

• Panel of Stakeholders Presentation at the SERRC Disproportionality Conference - Atlanta April 15, 2003
• Session Presentation at the SERRC Disproportionality Conference - Atlanta April 15, 2003
• Invited Address at 2003 Annual Meeting of the National Association of School Psychologists - Toronto

2003 OSEP Training

• Another OSEP-funded Project?
• Do the Data Deserve Such Importance?

2002 Annual OSEP Leadership Conference

• OSEP Leadership Sample Priority
• Accountability as a Commission Theme (short)
• Accountability as a Commission Theme (long)

OSEP Early Childhood Conference

• Focused Monitoring:  Accountability for What is Important

2002 National Association of State Directors in Special Education Conference in Portland, OR

• Biennial Performance Report:  Getting it Right
• OSEP Monitoring:  Continuous, Results-Oriented, and Focused

National Association of School Boards Luncheon Presentation - April 6, 2002

Presentation Summary 2002 NASP, Chicago
How the Federal Government Currently Monitors Special Education in States (http://www.dssc.org/frc/
monitor.htm)

Parent Training Institutes

• The Challenge in 2002: Implementing I.D.E.A. (Short Version)
  
• The Challenge in 2002:  Implementing I.D.E.A. (Long Version)
  
• Keynote Address for the 2002 Northeast Parent Training Institute Training Conference

LRP Accountability

• LRP Part 1
• LRP Part 2

COPAA's statement on the NCD Report
(http://www.copaa.net/national/
ncd_report_statement.html)

Additional criticisms of the NCD Report
(http://www.edlaw.net/publications
/NCDbp1.html)

presentation: National and State Initiatives in Accountability

presentation: Using Data to Focus Accountability Efforts