Data Management Alert: Special Education Data Dashboard Webinar Video and Office Hours

The Exceptional Student Services (ESS) Data Management team is pleased to announce that the recording of the FY26 Special Education Data Dashboard (SEDD) webinar is now available for your viewing and reference. If you or your staff were unable to attend our webinar held on Thursday, April 23rd, we recommend watching this video to become familiar with reporting requirements and application updates for the FY2025-2026 SEDD process. PEAs can access the recording on our Vimeo account and our SEDD webpage.

The ESS Data Management team is also pleased to announce that we will begin hosting office hours starting on Monday, May 18th. Office hours provide PEAs with the opportunity to meet one-on-one via Microsoft Teams with an ESS Data Management specialist to review any ESS data reporting issues and challenges as they pertain to SEDD. PEAs can register for a 30-minute session by navigating to the ESS Data Management Bookings page.

Office Hours and other technical assistance opportunities are intended to provide guidance; however, they cannot replace the requirement for the PEA to verify and correct data prior to the submission deadline. If a specialist must reschedule a session due to emergent and/or conflicting obligations, we will do our best to communicate this in a timely manner.

Important Dates

• Now: SEDD is currently open
  • Validate that users have the correct access to the application
  • Validate that data is landing appropriately in SEDD
• July 15, 2026: AzEDS Data Deadline
  • Last day any data can be synced to AzEDS for FY26
  • Preschool Transition and SWOD data entry
• July 22, 2026: SEDD Certification opens
  • LEA Signer must complete electronically
• August 5, 2026, by 5:00 p.m.
  • Late submissions may hold IDEA funds and impact PEA determinations

Please email the ESS Data Management inbox with any questions.