Kansas Monitoring and Technical Assistance Strategies for Inclusive Preschool Placement Options
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Kansas Monitoring and Technical Assistance Strategies for Inclusive Preschool Placement Options
A Collaborative PresentationNECTACKansas State Department of EducationKansas Inservice Training System
Kansas Overview and Planning for Improvement
Marguerite A. Hornback, Ed.D.Kansas State Department of EducationKansas Part B Section 619 [email protected]
Session Purpose
Share Kansas’ monitoring and TA processes to assist school districts in increasing the number of placements in early childhood settings
General Flow of Session
• History of LRE in Kansas
• Monitoring and TA Processes
• Overview of Pilot Evaluation
• Current Factors and Next Steps
Kansas Overview
• Kansas has 105 counties, only five of which are classified urban
• The remaining 100 counties are classified rural or frontier
• Population of approximately 2.5 million spread over 100,000 square miles
Kansas Overview• Currently 302 school districts
• History of local control
• Special Education Services often provided through Cooperatives/Interlocals
Kansas LRE History FFY ‘01
• 20% of preschoolers served in typical EC settings (nationally 36%)
• 30% of preschoolers served in reverse mainstream settings (nationally 1.69%)
• 39% of preschoolers served in ECSE settings (nationally 34%)
Process for Improvement
Developed State Work Plan
Desired Result: An increased number of preschool children with disabilities receiving services in high quality typical early childhood settings
Process for Improvement
• Clarify early childhood placement definitions in the Kansas data dictionary
• Implement training of data clerks with verification checks on data entry
Process for Improvement• Change the Kansas
Reimbursement Guide to resolve funding issues identified as barriers
• Require all LEAs to compare their data to the national rather than the state data and include EC LRE in their self-improvement plans
Process for Improvement
• Support collaborative preservice personnel development system
• Develop a collaborative set of early childhood standards and provide training and TA to promote consistency of practices across programs
Process for Improvement
• Develop and pilot a self-assessment process for LRE improvement planning by LEAs