November 2009
Welcome to Connect!
Special Focus: Accountability and Child Outcomes
Welcome to the latest issue of Connect!, the Desired Results access Project's free e-news blast featuring news, resources, and activities that will help you use the DRDP Assessment System for preschool special education. Please share this issue with your colleagues using the “Forward email” link at the bottom of this news-blast.
Resources
1. The Early Childhood Outcomes Center
2. Task Force on Accountability (2007): Taking Stock: Assessing and Improving Early Childhood Learning and Program Quality
3. Crosswalk between the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) Child Outcomes and the Desired Results Developmental Profile
1. The Early Childhood Outcomes Center (ECO)
http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~eco
The ECO website provides up-to-date national information and resources related to child and family outcome systems for early intervention and early childhood special education programs. Resources include:
2. Task Force on Accountability (2007): Taking Stock: Assessing and Improving Early Childhood Learning and Program Quality
This report offers recommendations for states in developing a single unified and coherent system of standards, assessments, data and professional development efforts across early childhood categorical programs and funding streams.
http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_detail.aspx?id=102
3. Crosswalk between the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) Child Outcomes and the Desired Results Developmental Profile
The federal Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) requires each state to report on three child outcomes for preschoolers as part of their State Performance Plans (SPPs). These Crosswalks illustrate how the Indicators and Measures of the DRDP instruments used in preschool special education correspond to the three OSEP outcomes. The California Department of Education calculates the OSEP data based on the DRDP ratings submitted by SELPAs.
http://draccess.org/system/OSEPcrosswalk.html
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