Arizona addresses the challenge of maintaining high-quality special education data.
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Weblogs, questions and answers, stories from the field, and our IDC newsletter, The Bee: This is where our voices come together to generate buzz.
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Data takes center stage in the Diamond State.
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Indiana refines its processes for SPP/APR Indicators 4, 9, 10, and 11.
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IDEA data processes get a tune-up in the Garden State.
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Nebraska sharpens its approach to SPP/APR Indicator 7.
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Puerto Rico makes progress toward more efficient data process documentation.
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Reviewing SPP/APRs is a bit like reading a state’s autobiography told through the lens of IDEA data. Our reviews allow us to reflect with states on how to tell their story in a compelling (and, yes, compliant) way, and as we do, our relationships deepen.
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- 2025
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IDC’s ground-breaking , first-of-its-kind podcast, A Date with Data, dropped for the first time in May 2022. Nearly three years and more than 50 episodes later, the pod is refreshed and ready to take on 2025.
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- 2025
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IDC Wrapped 2024
The year is almost over, and you know what that means: It’s time for IDC Wrapped, 2024!
If you’ve been following us on LinkedIn, you know that we’ve been teasing out some of our favorite highlights from this year in IDC technical assistance. We answered your calls over 230 times and had contact with each and every one of the 60 U.S. states, entities, and territories that we serve.
But that’s only the start.
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- 2025
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November is quickly coming to a close, and that can only mean one thing: the SPP/APR season is upon us! For the third year in a row, IDC hosted our SPP/APR Summit, where SEA staff from across the country came together to collaborate and plan as they prepare to submit their next SPP/APR.
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- 2024
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By now, you and your state team have probably begun working on your SPP/APR. As in years past, you are not alone; IDC is standing by ready to review drafts of your SPP/APR. As part of our commitment to support states in the reporting and analysis of high-quality IDEA data, over the next few months IDC will be offering SPP/APR review opportunities both through your State Liaison as well as through our patented IDC Informal Drop-Ins.
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- 2024
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Utah. The Beehive State. Its official motto is just one word: Industry. It might come as no surprise, then, that the Utah State Board of Education has been working hard to improve the state’s general supervision system to monitor and support its LEAs in achieving compliance with federal and state requirements.
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- 2024
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One thing years of experience have taught us: States love stories. Specifically, states love stories about other states, challenges they’ve faced, processes and strategies they’ve employed, successes they’ve enjoyed. That was the spark behind IDC’s twice-monthly podcast, A Date with Data, now in its second year of production and an effort that is particularly relevant in light of the Department of Education’s recent focus on sharing out state success stories.
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- 2023
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On the heels of OSEP’s Leadership Conference and the STATS-DC Data Conference, your thoughts may now be turning to the EDFacts modernization effort and what it all means for you. Fear not! IDC is here to help.
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- 2023
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As an IDC TA provider and someone who once served the Colorado Department of Education, I’m afforded a somewhat unusual perspective on IDC’s technical assistance work from both sides of the equation.
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- 2022
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High-Quality Preschool Environments Data
Collecting and reporting high-quality preschool environments data for State Performance Plan/Annual Performance Report (SPP/APR) Indicator 6 can be a complex and multilayered responsibility for states and districts. It starts at the preschool child’s individualized education program (IEP) meeting, where IEP team members select the most appropriate preschool environment for the child to receive special education and related services. Team members need to understand the differences among the preschool environments and the reasons for serving a child in a particular environment in order to make decisions about serving preschool children in the least restrictive environment (LRE). State information systems (or statewide IEP systems) then must accurately reflect each of these team decisions in order to produce high-quality preschool environments data.
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- 2022