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    An IDC Resource

    Format: Presentations

    Equity, Inclusion and Opportunity: Addressing Success Gaps

    The presentation introduces a research-based guidance document and self-assessment rubric designed to help districts and schools identify the root causes of "success gaps" (for example, in test scores, suspension or graduation rates, or course credits) for some groups of students, thereby helping schools to improve and equalize results for all students.

    Format: Presentations

    Equity, Inclusion, and Opportunity: Addressing Success Gaps via the SSIP Process

    Presenters introduced a research-based guidance document and self-assessment rubric designed by OSEP's Disproportionality Priority Team to help districts and schools identify the root causes of "success gaps" for some groups of students, thereby helping to improve and equalize results for all students. As an example, presenters used Georgia's SSIP process, focused on graduation for students with disabilities.

    An IDC Resource

    Format: Presentations

    Equity, Inclusion, & Opportunity: Addressing Success Gaps

    This presentation introduced the audience of local education agency personnel to new tools, the Equity, Inclusion, and Opportunity: How to Address Success Gaps Rubric and the Equity, Inclusion and Opportunity: How to Address Success Gaps White Paper. The rubric and white paper were developed by a group of OSEP-funded technical assistance providers, with input from states and other experts. The Equity, Inclusion, and Opportunity: How to Address Success Gaps tools provide a process for reducing the differences in school success among subgroups of students by providing a structure for districts or schools to examine their current practices and identify areas for improvement.

    An IDC Resource

    Format: Presentations

    High-Quality Data to Support Improved Outcomes on Selected Indicators

    This interactive role-alike presentation for SPP/APR Coordinators engaged states in discussion and dialogue around their experiences with select APR Indicators that address student outcomes. The session included one state's experiences with capturing and using high-quality data and how the data are used to inform the APR and drive decisions for selecting and implementing strategies to improve student outcomes. Participants were encouraged to share their state's examples to improve the APR and student outcomes.

    An IDC Resource

    Format: Presentations

    Using Data to Explore and Prepare for Expected Changes to Significant Disproportionality: What Should Your State Be Thinking About?

    To address the disparities experienced by minority students with disabilities, the U.S. Department of Education is proposing a new Equity in IDEA Rule. During this session, presenters used data examples to guide states through a series of questions regarding how the Notice of Proposed Rule Making might affect significant disproportionality calculations, analysis, and decision-making. Presenters also introduced IDC’s Success Gaps Toolbox, which can help states and local school districts in determining root causes of significant disproportionality.

    Format: Presentations

    Collecting Quality Data: Why It Matters and Guidance to Improve Our Process

    This presentation provided information that would allow participants to increase their knowledge of what constitutes high-quality data, how to improve processes for collecting high-quality data, and the use of high-quality data for measuring program effectiveness.

    An IDC Resource

    Format: Presentations

    Equity, Inclusion, and Opportunity: Creating Educational Systems That Meet the Needs of All Groups of Students

    Many schools and districts have been identified as low performing or disproportionate because of disparities between subgroups on a variety of success measures. Other schools and districts are proactively trying to address identified success gaps. Presenters from IDC demonstrated IDC's Success Gaps Toolkit that can help schools and districts 1) prepare all of their students for success in college and careers by addressing success gaps, 2) collect and use quantitative and qualitative data for the purpose of root-cause analysis of those success gaps, and 3) focus attention on those root causes for the benefit of children and students in the lowest performing subgroups.