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Event Type: Training
Event Date: December 6, 2024 - 9:30 AM - December 6, 2024 - 3:30 PM

Description: This is a full day, in-person meeting focused on cross-training for supporting our students who are experiencing homelessness, are migratory, and/or are Multilingual English learners. Tentative date is Friday, December 6, 2024, likely to be held in central Vermont. Much more to come on this!

Audience: CFP Team Leads, EL Specialists, School Administrators, Registrars

Location: Berlin, VT

Date: December 6, 2024

Time: 9:30 a.m.- 3:30 p.m.

Registration will be forthcoming closer to event. 


Event Type: Meeting
Event Date: December 6, 2024 - 1:00 PM - December 6, 2024 - 2:00 PM

Dates:

  • Friday, Feb. 2, 2024
  • May 3, 2024
  • September 6, 2024
  • December 6, 2024

Time: 1-2 p.m. 

Audience: Directors Intervention Services, Early Interventionists, Early Childhood Special Educators/Coordinators, Special Education Directors 

Description: Participants are invited to join this first-in-series session to address, discuss, and problem-solve ongoing topics within Part C to Part B transition. Leslie Davis, Part C Director, Katie McCarthy ECSE/Part B 619 State Coordinator, and Amy Murphy, Early Education Inclusion Coordinator will moderate and facilitate. No previous sign up is required.  

Contacts: Katie McCarthy (Part B), katie.mccarthy@vermont.gov  or Leslie Davis (Part C), leslie.davis@vermont.gov   

 

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Event Type: Training
Event Date: December 9, 2024 - 2:00 PM - December 9, 2024 - 3:00 PM

Event Dates: December 9, 2024, from 2-3 p.m. and December 10, 2024, from 10-11:00 a.m.

Audience: Special Education Directors, District Test Administrators, Special Educators and Case Managers

Purpose: All publicly funded students with significant cognitive disabilities are required to participate in a statewide assessment for math and reading in grades 3 through 9 and for science in grades 5, 8, and 11. Students who cannot participate in the general assessment with accommodations may be eligible to take an alternate assessment.  In Vermont, this alternate assessment in the Multi-State Alternate Assessment (MSAA). MSAA is a comprehensive assessment system, designed to promote access for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities, in preparation for a broader array of post-secondary outcomes. The Alternate Assessment Eligibility Training will discuss the alternate assessment, MSAA, and eligibility decisions and requirements for the alternate assessment. This training will provide resources to help IEP teams to make this decision.

Registration Link: Alternate Assessment Eligibility Training

Contact: Ana Russo, Inclusion and Accessibility Coordinator, at ana.russo@vermont.gov


Event Type: Training
Event Date: December 10, 2024 - 10:00 AM - December 10, 2024 - 11:00 AM

Event Dates: December 9, 2024, from 2-3 p.m. and December 10, 2024, from 10-11:00 a.m.

Audience: Special Education Directors, District Test Administrators, Special Educators and Case Managers

Purpose: All publicly funded students with significant cognitive disabilities are required to participate in a statewide assessment for math and reading in grades 3 through 9 and for science in grades 5, 8, and 11. Students who cannot participate in the general assessment with accommodations may be eligible to take an alternate assessment.  In Vermont, this alternate assessment in the Multi-State Alternate Assessment (MSAA). MSAA is a comprehensive assessment system, designed to promote access for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities, in preparation for a broader array of post-secondary outcomes. The Alternate Assessment Eligibility Training will discuss the alternate assessment, MSAA, and eligibility decisions and requirements for the alternate assessment. This training will provide resources to help IEP teams to make this decision.

Registration Link: Alternate Assessment Eligibility Training

Contact: Ana Russo, Inclusion and Accessibility Coordinator, at ana.russo@vermont.gov


Event Type: Training
Event Date: December 10, 2024 - 3:00 PM - December 10, 2024 - 4:00 PM

Title: WIDA Assessment Training

Date:  December 10, 2024

Time: 3-4 p.m.

 Audience: WIDA District Test Coordinators and WIDA Test Administrators

Description: In this session, we’ll review changes to the WIDA Assessment this year, and requirements for Test Coordinators and Administrators. There will also be time for questions and clarification.

For more information, contact Heidi Jo Bartlett at heidijo.bartlett@vermont.gov

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Event Type: Training
Event Date: December 11, 2024 - 9:00 AM - December 11, 2024 - 10:00 AM

Audience: CFP Team Leaders, Business Managers, Grant Managers, Other Support Staff

Links to teams meeting series:

Wednesday 10-30-2024 9 a.m.-10 a.m.

Wednesday 11-13-2024 9 a.m.-10 a.m.

Wednesday 11-27-2024 9 a.m.-10 a.m.

Wednesday 12-11-2024 9 a.m.-10 a.m.

No registration is required. 


Event Date: December 12, 2024 - 1:00 PM - December 12, 2024 - 2:00 PM

2024-2025 Dates and Time: Every second Thursday from 1-2 p.m. starting from Sept. 12, 2024, to May 8, 2025 

Audience: Family Engagement Coordinators and Liaisons, School and District Administrators, Community Organization Personnel 

Purpose: Please save the dates for the Family Engagement Networking Series facilitated by the AOE Vermont Multi-Tiered System of Supports (VTmtss) Team. The sessions will focus on Family Engagement as a Strategy for Improving Belonging and Well-Being. These are informal, monthly one-hour virtual sessions for family engagement colleagues to connect, hear updates, learn of resources, share strategies, and discuss problems of practice regarding family engagement.  

Topics: See 2024-25 Family Engagement Networking Series Topics for session topics.

Contact: Nancy Hellen at nancy.hellen@vermont.gov

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Event Type: Training
Event Date: December 17, 2024 - 3:30 PM - December 17, 2024 - 4:30 PM

Event Dates: December 17, 2024, from 3:30-4:30 p.m. 

Audience: Vermont High School Special Educators and Special Education Directors 

Purpose: This training will cover all aspects of the IEP Transition plan in terms of best practices as well as the Indicator 13 compliance requirements around the 8 elements that need to be included in the plan. There will be emphasis on identifying necessary transition skills that students need and how to build goals that support development of those skills. We will also go over common areas of noncompliance found during the monitoring process.  

Registration link:  Please register for Graduation Readiness Tool Training.

Contact: John Spinney 


Event Date: December 17, 2024 - 4:30 PM - December 17, 2024 - 6:30 PM

Date: December 17, 2024

Time: 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.

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Contact: Katie Ballard


Event Type: Meeting
Event Date: December 18, 2024 - 8:30 AM - December 18, 2024 - 4:30 PM

Date: December 18, 2024, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Location:

TBD