The Office of Special Education Programs at the U.S. Department of Education has awarded the Vermont Agency of Education (AOE) a State Personnel Development Grant (SPDG) to address students’ access to high-quality instruction and intervention delivery systems along the continuum from birth through age 21. Implementing an effective instruction and intervention delivery system will ensure children and students receive appropriate instruction, intervention and/or services as soon educators, families, or students identify a need.

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SPDG Informational Materials and Annual Reports

For more information about the State Personnel Development Grant (SPDG), review our Annual Performance Reports and/or slide presentation and recording. These office hours provided information specific to Children’s Integrated Service and Early Intervention providers as well as PreK through 12th grade educators.  For more information, contact Meg Porcella at meg.porcella@vermont.gov. 

State Personnel Development Grant (SPDG) Informational Office Hour Recording

State Personnel Development Grant (SPDG) Topics

PreK Through Grade 12 - Goal 1

Infants and Toddlers - Goal 2

Family Engagement

PreK Through Grade 12 - Goal 1

Participating personnel from Supervisory Unions/School Districts will receive professional development in the form of training and coaching. Participating SU/SDs will commit member schools to being part of a three-year cohort. The goal of the project is to increase the percentage of students with disabilities who score proficient or above on their local universal language arts or math assessments through rigorous and sustained professional learning focused on the analysis, implementation, and monitoring of effective assessment, instruction, and intervention delivery.

Expected outcomes include: 

Timely and accurate student identification within an initial evaluation process, 
Identification of instructional strategies, interventions, and related supports that are appropriate and evidence-based, 
Delivery of instruction, intervention, and related supports with fidelity, as identified using evidence-based standards and by appropriate and highly-qualified staff members, 
Progress monitoring to assess the impact of instruction, intervention, and related supports related to student-specific achievement goals, and 
Family involvement and engagement as partners and decision-makers in the education and development of their children.

Infants and Toddlers - Goal 2

Participating regional Children’s Integrated Service (CIS) and Early Intervention (EI) providers will receive professional development in the form of training and coaching designed to improve social and emotional skills for infants and toddlers (birth to age 3) with a OnePlan through the implementation of Early MTSS and the Pyramid Model best practices for instruction and intervention.

Expected outcomes include: 
Greater capacity of CIS Early Intervention services to support infants and toddlers, 
Improved social and or emotional functional development of infants and toddlers, and 
Families are better able to help their infants and toddlers develop and learn functional, social, and/or emotional skills.

Family Engagement

Vermont’s Parent Training Information Center (PTIC) is the Vermont Family Network (VFN). The VFN will support efforts in each SPDG Goal to extend their reach to impact infants and toddlers, preschool-age children, students, parents, and families.

Vermont State Personnel Development Grant (SPDG)