Are you looking for ways to shift the focus from compliance alone to educational programming designed for student progress toward meeting challenging goals? Are you interested in learning more about an opportunity to partner with an Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)-funded technical assistance center that provides information, resources, tools, and services to support local education agencies from kindergarten through secondary transition?

ADE/ESS is pleased to announce that registration for the Arizona Education Virtual Job Fair is now open! Join us online on Saturday, February 27, 2021. Registration is open to Arizona public school districts and charter schools on a first-come, first-served basis.

November 29, 2020, marked the 45th anniversary of President Gerald Ford signing the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (Public Law 94-142) into law. The 1990 amendment to Public Law 94-142 changed the law’s name to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

Please join ADE/ESS for these exciting IDEA Conference session offerings

In this free webinar, we will explore multiple representations to build conceptual understanding of operations with integers. We will apply and extend previous understandings of operations with whole numbers to create zero-sum pairs. Additionally, we will demonstrate how to develop grit and creative problem-solving with accessible low-floor/high-ceiling tasks.

The SPED99 – SPED Orphan Data Report is a new report now available in the AzEDS Portal. This report will aid PEAs in finding special education (SPED) data in AzEDS that may have had the corresponding enrollment data removed. When enrollment data is deleted for a given student but the SPED data remains in AzEDS, this is defined as orphan data. Often this orphan data can result in errors for your PEA or other PEAs, that is unseen in your INTEG15 report, since the enrollment data is not present.

The SPED07 report is now available within the October 1 Data Collection (ODC) application for Phase II: Reconciliation.

Further clarification is being provided regarding students attending ASDB sites and the ESS October 1 Data Collection. Regardless if a student attends an ASDB site or a site within your PEA, you would include the student in your Phase I Verification Count if the student was provided services on October 1st.

Information on upcoming math professional learning with general and special education teachers who teach mathematics.

ADE/ESS is pleased to announce that the Compensatory Services Claims application is now open for the second wave of applications through the ESS Portal of ADEConnect and the cap for funds has been increased for each public education agency (PEA). Each PEA can now apply for one or multiple compensatory education claims up to $25,000 for each PEA.