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Initiatives
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Alabama State Department of Education
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Initiatives

GOAL 1: Infrastructure Support
Training will be developed to help reduce achievement gaps between students with and without disabilities by implementation of goal initiative within school systems. Changes in pre-service training programs will also incorporate evidence based practices within the SIG goal areas.

FEATURES
  • Local Systems Change Teams
  • Trainer-of-trainers model
  • Teaming with IHE faculty to facilitate integration of projects across teacher-education programs
  • Collaborating w/Alabama Parent Information Center to provide pre-literacy and behavior training
  • Teaming with other SDE Initiatives with complimentary goals

GOAL 2: Early Reading Initiative
Through statewide intensive and extensive teacher training and professional development for teachers, related service personnel, parents, early intervention personnel and para-educators, the reading skills of students with disabilities and other special needs will be improved.

FEATURES
  • Providing staff development teachers in phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
  • Collaborating with Alabama Reading FIRST and Alabama Reading Initiative
  • State-wide staff development in use of DIBELS to make instructional decisions
  • Collaborating with the states Parent Training Information Center
  • Proving technical Assistance School Systems
  • Providing opportunities for teachers to receive training from national leaders in reading
  • Providing training in pre-reading skills to early intervention personnel

GOAL 3: Positive Behavior Supports
Through Positive Behavior Support (PBS) site leadership training for administrators, teachers, para-educators, and parents, the number of students who receive office discipline referrals, suspensions, and/or removals will decrease.

FEATURES
  • Teaches schools how to use the data, systems, practices approach to develop consistent school-wide approach to discipline
  • Creates proactive, predictable, positive learning environment
  • Focuses on preventing inappropriate behavior, rather than employing a reactive, punishing approach to discipline
  • Provides support/intervention to students in the upper tertiary group of inappropriate behavior
  • Specifically teaches staff to recognize and deal with situations to prevent them from becoming office discipline referrals
  • Encourages students to become proactively engaged in the educational process

GOAL 4: Student Engagement
Through statewide intensive training and professional development for administrators, teachers, related service personnel, para-educators, and parents of students with disabilities will have increased engagement and academic success thereby increasing school attendance and reducing their dropout rate.

FEATURES
  • Facilitating access to general curriculum
  • Utilizing a standards-based approach to instruction
  • Employing differentiated instruction
  • Developing collaborative classrooms
  • Utilizing Makes Sense Strategies to improve instruction in
    • Vocabulary
    • Reading Comprehension
    • Content-area Subjects
    • Writing

GOAL 5: Special Education Teacher Recruitment & Retention
Maintain recruitment efforts and increase retention of qualified special education teachers and para-educators serving students with disabilities.

FEATURES

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