2023 OSEP Combined Leadership and Project Directors' Conference
Archived Materials
The Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) hosted its Leadership and Project Directors’ Conference the week of July 23, 2023 in Arlington, Virginia.
If you are interested in learning more about the 2023 Leadership Conference, please explore the agenda page which contains information on all of the sessions that were held, including links to presentation materials, plenary session recordings, or other resources that were provided.
For any questions on the conference, please reach out to the conference planning team at: osep-meeting@air.org
Date
Monday, July 24, 2023 – Wednesday, July 26, 2023Location
Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel1700 Richmond Highway
Arlington, VA 22202
Meeting Who
Audience
- Part B State Directors and agency staff working across federal programs
- Part C Coordinators/619 Coordinators and staff
- Part B and Part C Data Managers
- Data Center Project Directors
- OSEP Doctoral Scholars
- State Advisory Councils and State Interagency Coordinating Councils
- Project Evaluators
- OSEP and U.S. Department of Education staff
- Part D Project Directors, including:
- Personnel Development Project Directors
- Technical Assistance and Dissemination Project Directors
- Educational Technology, Media, and Materials Project Directors
- Parent Center Project Directors
- State Personnel Development Grant Project Directors
Presenter Information
Evaluations
Symposium Prework
Symposium Postwork
Special Needs
Mobile Website
Lodging, Dining, Activities
Call for Proposals
Agenda
Explore the agenda page below to view archived session information, including links to presentation materials (e.g., PowerPoints, handouts), plenary session recordings, and other resources. Resources are not available for non-linked sessions.
Daily agendas and archived materials are also downloadable as PDFs via the orange buttons for all days of the conference.
7:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. ET (1 hour 45 minutes)
Registration and Materials Pick-up
8:45 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. ET (1 hour)
Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. ET (45 minutes)
Keynote Presentation
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. ET (30 minutes)
Break and Solo Presentations
- Improving Your State’s Part C System: Lessons Learned From DMS
- New Flexibilities for Implementing Medicaid in Schools
- The Role of Cognitive Load Theory in Selecting, Designing, and Implementing Instruction for Students and Teachers
11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. ET (1 hour 15 minutes)
Implementation Showcases
- Successfully Partnering With Families Adds Credibility and Authenticity to Our Work and Fosters a Safer Environment for Active Family Engagement, Effectively Paving a Path to Empowerment for All Families
- The Consortium Approach to Doctoral Training: Lessons Learned
- National Center on Improving Literacy– Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (NCIL-PaTTAN): Implementing Evidence-Based Literacy Practices Systemwide
- Retaining Special Education Personnel at All Levels: Georgia's Approach
- National- and State-Level Partnerships: Fostering Inclusive Early Learning Opportunities Through Accessibility Practices
- Moving States, Local Programs, and Early Childhood Environments From “Yes, But” to “Both, And” to Achieve Transformational Inclusive Change
- Dispute Resolution and DMS: An Interactive Discussion Panel Featuring the Perspectives of Part B/Part C Programs, The Center for Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Special Education (CADRE), ECTA, and OSEP
- Developing a State Comprehensive System of Personnel Development (CSPD)
- Moving Toward Meaningful Inclusion for Students With Significant Cognitive Disabilities
12:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. ET (2 hours 30 minutes)
Lunch and Live Poster Session Setup
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. ET (1 hour)
State Team Meetings A
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. ET (1 hour)
Program Area Meetings A
2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. ET (1 hour)
Poster Sessions and Solos
3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. ET (15 minutes)
Break and Micro-Solo Presentations
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. ET (1 hour)
Talk Sessions
- The Power of Data: OSEP’s Reflections and Considerations for the State Performance Plan/Annual Performance Report
- Increasing Equity Through Stage-Based Implementation of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)
- The Case for Flexibility in Schoolwide Evidence-based Literacy Practices: Navigating Negotiables and Non-Negotiables
- Fostering Educator Expertise through Practice-based Preparation
- Data Sharing Under IDEA and the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
- Prioritizing Equity-Mindset Practices in Technical Assistance Services
- Enhancing Equitable Access to and Participation in Early Intervention
- How Do State Policies and Practices Support COS Family Engagement?
5:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. ET (15 Minutes)
Break and Micro-Solo Presentations
5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. ET (1 hour)
Meetups and Workshops
- Accessibility Awareness As an Organizational Approach
- Data Visualization: A Workshop in Bringing Evaluation Data to Life
- Using the Personnel Development Program Data Collection System (PDPDCS): Tips, Tricks, and Demos
- Leading Continuous Reading Improvement Within a Schoolwide System
- Boosting Access to Positive Parenting for Families
- DMS Monitoring Cohort 2 Meeting
- Lessons Learned: How States Successfully Implement Coaching
- Integration of School- or Program-Based Mental Health Supports
- American Rescue Plan (ARP) Funds – Insights and Lessons Learned from Part C
- Implementation Science in Doctoral and State Leadership Programs
- DeafBlind Projects Connecting with Information, Strategies and Stories
- Parent Center Directors and Staff of Color
- Part B Data Managers Chat About Data Quality and Other Important Issues
- All Things State Advisory Panel (SAP) and State Interagency Coordinating Council (SICC)
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. ET (1 hour)
Early Bird Sessions
9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. ET (15 minutes)
Break and Micro-Solos
- Building Evidence for Teacher Writing Scaffolds Using Single-Case Research Design (SCRD)
- Incubator Drive-Thru: Determining Appropriate and Differentiated Technical Assistance
- Raising a Child With Down Syndrome: A Scoping Review of the Literature
- Lessons Learned About Implementing Differentiated Reading Intervention
9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. ET (1 hour)
Talk Sessions
- Highlight and Review of OSEP’s Guidance on State General Supervision Responsibilities Under Parts B and C of the IDEA: Monitoring, Technical Assistance, and Enforcement
- Indicators of Progress in the Wake of Endrew F.
- Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ChatGPT: Advancing Our Work Through Technology
- Transitions to Teaching: Model Pathways to Special Education Licensure
- Grants: Making Sense of New Requirements for 2023
- Part B IDEA Section 618 Data Submissions Under EDFacts Modernization
- Proper or Improper? Guidance on IDEA Fiscal Responsibility in a Time of Audits and Monitoring
- Building Equitable, Inclusive Preschool Special Education Environments
- ED Policy Letters: Advocating for Students With Disabilities in Physical Education (PE)
10:15 a.m. - 10:30 am ET (15 minutes)
Micro-Solos and Break
- Integrating Family-Engaged Learning Opportunities Into Training
- Faculty Collaboration to Enhance Use of Universal Design for Learning
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. ET (1 hour)
Talk Sessions
- Are You Using IRIS Resources Effectively? Your Students May Disagree
- The Parent Center Network: Empowering Families and Youth!
- Making It Stick: How to Engage Teachers for Tier 1 Instruction
- Planning the Effective Use of IDEA Part B State Set-Aside Funds
- Empower the Learner Profile: A Tool for Advocacy and Self-Advocacy
- Building a System: Teams Driving Equity
- Rethinking TA: Impact of a Field-Initiated and Partnership Process
- Cortical Vision Impairment (CVI): Two States' Perspectives on Early Intervention and Parent Center Collaboratives
- From NICUs to Child Care: Engaging Partners and Enhancing Services
11:30 a.m. - 2:15 p.m. ET (2 hours 45 minutes)
Lunch
11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. ET (1 hour)
State Team Meetings B
12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. ET (1 hour)
Program Area Meetings B
2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. ET (1 hour 15 minutes)
Implementation Showcases
- Confronting Exclusionary Discipline Through Systems Change and Evidence-Based Practices
- Partnering With Families Communicate Coordinate and Collaborate
- Moving MTSS Upstream School Mental Health and Student and Family Partnerships
- Using Data-Based Individualization to Improve Student Outcomes
- Cross Agency Collaboration to Support Transition
- The Three Ps of DMS 2.0 Success Purpose Process and People
- Facilitating Family Capacity-Building in Key Literacy Roles
- Reinventing Digital Access Three Initiatives to Learn Share and Grow
3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. ET (30 minutes)
Break and Solo Presentations
- Strategic Incremental Rehearsal: A Quick, Intensive Intervention
- Engaging Families in Data Discussions
- Improving Outcomes Through Innovative Interdisciplinary Preparation
- Resilient Early Intervention Leadership A Collaborative Approach
- Glam Good Deals: Educator Preparation Programs (EPPs) Roles and Supports During the Induction Years
- Coordinate Collaborate and Integrate Elementary and Secondary Education Act and IDEA Cooperation
3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. ET (1 hour)
Impact Panel
4:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. ET (30 minutes)
Break and Solo Presentations
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. ET (1 hour)
Meetups and Workshops
- Research–Practice Partnership to Support Novice Special Educators
- Building Capacity for and Sustaining MTSS for Early Reading
- Bringing the Family Voice to the SPP APR process A Collaboration
- Improving Transition Plans With Person-Centered Planning
- Infusing Self-Determination in Math Instruction for Students With Intellectual Disability
- Survey Says! Or Does It? Analyzing Nonresponse Bias in Survey Results
- Touching Base With Tactile Learning
- How to Take a Dynamic Approach to Sustainability
- Creating Safe and Supportive Schools for ALL Students
- DaSy IDEA Part C and B Data Manager’s Meetup: Networking and Cracker Barrel
- Navigating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Partnering for Prevention: Collaborative Approaches to Reducing Exclusionary Discipline
- Addressing the Personnel Crisis in Special Education and Early Intervention
- HBCUs Hidden Gems: Grant Procurement and Culturally Responsive Educator Preparation
- Targeted Recruitment Efforts
- Identifying and Supporting Students With Dyslexia: Challenges and Opportunities
- CIFR Fiscal Meetup: Support and Networking
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. ET (1 hour)
Talk Sessions
- Going Deep on UDL Creating Community Across SEAs to Support Equity
- Extending the Table Inviting Critical Perspectives to the Conversation
- Using Data to Screen for Dyslexia
- School Mental Health Lessons Learned from Three Model Demo Projects
- Alternate Assessment Disproportionality Calculator A Tool for SEAs
- An Alabama Interdisciplinary Model for Developing Transition Personnel
- IDEA 618 Data Collected During the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Building and Sustaining an Early Intervention Workforce Steps One State Took to Decide Where to Target Its Resources and Efforts
- Making Assistive Technology an Integral Part of the Early Childhood to 12 System
9:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. ET (15 minutes)
Break and Micro-Solos
- Grab a Cup of TA at the AEM Café
- Teacher Preparation for Dispute Resolution Supportive Steps to Take
9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. ET (1 hour)
Talk Sessions
- Technology A Strong Building Block to Support Special Education Professional Learning and Program Outcomes
- From the Top Down From the Bottom Up or Meet in the Middle
- Addressing Equitable Outcomes in Special Education Two Graduate Program Models
- Building Coaching Capacity Using a Tiered Approach Lessons Learned
- Part C IDEA Section 618 Data Submissions Under EDFacts Modernization
- Colorado Multi-Tiered System of Supports Sparks a Regional Movement
- Highlight and Review of OSEP's Guidance on State General Supervision Responsibilities under Parts B and C of the IDEA: Monitoring, Technical Assistance, and Enforcement
- Accessible Educational Materials in the IEP Why, Where, and How
- Academics for Students With Extensive Support Needs
10:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. ET (30 minutes)
Break and Solo Presentations
- Supporting Teaching of Algebra Individual Readiness What We Learned and What Next
- A Three-Pronged Approach to Impact Change for Students and Systems
- A Behind the Scenes Look at the Accessible Learning Experience Podcast