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This session reviewed the working principles of high-quality IDEA data as they relate to the various discipline data states must submit each year for children and youth with disabilities. Discussion topics included how states make sure their data are accurate, timely, and complete. Presenters also discussed how states maintain discipline data security while making the data accessible and usable.

The purpose of this presentation was to introduce PTI and CPRC directors and staff to the IDEA data collected and reported by state education agencies and discuss how these data can be used to inform many of the fourteen priority topics for the PTI/CPRC network. These priorities were  identified in the most recent OSEP requests for proposals for PTI and CPRC funding.

This presentation focuses on the development of evaluation questions during SSIP evaluation planning.

The presentation provides information to help states think about the early steps and process for infrastructure development. The ECTA System Framework is a reference on specific components of the systems identified for improvement. Helpful handouts are included with this posting.

The presentation provides reasons to focus on scaling up and factors that states should consider when developing a plan for scale-up. A helpful handout is included.

The presentation provides guidance on the importance of planning for data collection and analysis and documenting findings and decisions to facilitate reporting. Information also focuses on essential elements in planning and documenting data collection and analysis and how to maximize the efficiency and utility of state efforts to use data to make mid-course corrections to collection or analysis plans. Helpful handouts are included.

The presentation offers information about how to leverage federal, state, and local funding streams and initiatives that may support improvement to state infrastructure for implementation of the SSIP. Helpful handouts are included with this posting.