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News and Events for October 9 through October 20, 2023

Cohort 1 Planning for the One Needs Assessment

October 19, 2023 9:00am Virtual

Cohort 1 is required to complete the One Needs Assessment in order to prioritize critical needs for your district leading to the creation of your One Plan. Taking a proactive approach can improve collaboration and break silos down within your organization to ensure successful completion of the One Needs Assessment. Through Zoom, SST8 will share tools that Cohort 1 can use to jump start the One Needs Assessment.

OIP Reboot

October 26th, 9:00AM-3:00PM

Summit ESC

To provide educators, administrators, and school leaders with an in-depth overview of the Ohio 5-Step Process and demonstrate how its implementation can bring about positive transformation and advancement within school districts.

SPED Office Hours

October 11th 1:00- 2:00

Join Dee Dee & Helen to get your most pressing special ed questions answered! Discuss problems and explore solutions with the consultants and your colleagues in the region. Email your questions ahead of time if possible but don’t worry, they take questions “on the fly!”

Struggling to Support

Struggling Readers?

SST8's October 31 Special Education Forum session will include a focus on critical considerations for supporting struggling readers with literacy interventions. To help us plan for this session, we'd love to hear from you about what specific challenges your personnel face and what skills they are working on improving. Please complete our brief survey by October 20th - we will draw names from survey participants and giveaway copies of the book 10 Success Factors for Literacy Intervention: Getting Results with MTSS in Elementary Schools.

Complete Survey

2023- 2024 SST 8

K-12 Principal Network

10/31/23 9:00-10:30 Virtual

This year, we’ve combined the OIP Network with SST8’s Regional Literacy Leader Network. During these meetings, from the comfort of your office, you will spend two hours learning the latest school improvement news along with traveling the Literacy Improvement Pathway. You’ll have the opportunity to engage in discussions around the most impactful literacy improvement components that district and school leaders should be considering in their daily work and in connection with long term planning. This “Literacy Improvement Pathway” will include videos and resources provided by Ohio’s Literacy Lead as well as opportunities for aligned collaborative conversations with your adolescent and elementary colleagues.

September 28, October 17, November 21,December 19,

February 27, and April 23,

9:00-10:30am.

Link below registers you for all sessions.

PBIS Tier 2 Open Office Hours

Is your team implementing Tier 2? Do you have questions about targeted interventions? Join us for virtual office hours. The first one meets on 10/17.

Making the Most of Your Co-Teaching Partnership

October 24, 9:00- 3:00 PM

In Person, Summit ESC

This session is designed for current co-teaching teams. Content will cover the why, what, and how of co-teaching. Teams will utilize a Co-teaching Team Development Inventory Tool to self-assess current practices and create goals. Participating teams will schedule an initial consultation and observation as well a follow-up consultation focusing upon a selected team goal area. Each participating co-teaching team must consist of an interventionist and a general educator.

In addition, the team’s building principal is critical to the success of the co-teaching partnership. Participation of each team’s principal in a 30-minute virtual consultation in January/February as well as a virtual follow-up in May is required.

Interested? Contact Mike Kaschak and Tracy Mail to find out if this is a good fit for your team.

PBIS Tier 2 Training

Is your building implementing PBIS Tier 1 with fidelity? Do you have students in need of additional behavior support?

Join us for our Tier 2 training. This training will

expose participants to Tier 2 systems and small group interventions. These are

strategies and procedures put into place to support groups of students who

display similar needs as identified through the data

Statewide CTE/SPED

Leaders Network

This network will meet four times per year to provide universal professional development on various topics related to Career-Technical Education, equitable access to CTE programs, CTE federal and state mandates, as well as an opportunity for networking through regional breakout rooms. Meetings will be held virtually via Zoom from 9-11am. Any CTE Director, Special Education Coordinator, Director of Student Services & Building Administrator are invited to attend. Please click on the dates below to register for each meeting through SST3's registration form:

November 8, 2023

February 28, 2024

April 17, 2024

HEADS UP!

Reading Achievement Plans

(RAPs) are back

Ohio law requires a Reading Achievement Plan for each school district or community school that meets criteria 1 and 2 below, as reported on the district’s or community school’s past two consecutive Ohio School Report Cards. Such a district or community school must submit a Reading Achievement Plan to the Ohio Department of Education by Dec. 31 of the reporting year.

Received a grade of “D” or “F” on the Improving At-Risk K-3 Readers measure on the Ohio School Report Cards; and
Fewer than 60 percent of students scored proficient or higher on the state’s grade 3 Ohio’s State Test in English Language Arts.

SB 216 requires a Reading Improvement Plan when fewer than 80 percent of a district or community school’s students scored proficient or higher on the grade 3 Ohio’s State Test in English Language Arts.

NAPSA Conference is in OHIO!!

The National Association of Pupil Services Administrators' conference will be held in Cleveland this year. ODE has partnered with NAPSA and special rates are available for Ohio educators. This is a great opportunity for OAPSA members as well as non-members to check out the national organization. Click the flyer below for all of the information.

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