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All students, including those with disabilities, are held to high expectations and have equitable access to educational opportunities that enrich their lives and prepare them for future success.
Our goal as educators is to improve outcomes for all students. This can be accomplished through a system that ensures equity and access. Equitable Access is the guarantee that all students are provided the necessary and individualized supplementary aids and services, accommodations, modifications or supports to meaningfully participate in the general education curriculum. Equitable access must be accompanied by a school wide acceptance or belief in shared responsibility, shared accountability and high expectations. According to the Dear Colleague letter on the provision of a Free Appropriate Public Education (November 2015) and the Every Student Succeeds Act (December 2015), improving outcomes also requires a strong core curriculum, high quality instruction, unbiased assessment that guides instruction, and collaboration among administrators, general and special education staff, parents, and the community. Multi-tiered systems of support and universal design for learning provide the foundation necessary to reach the overall goal.
- Every Student Succeeds
- OSEP Guidance Memo Q&A Endrew Case-12-07-2017
- Year 1 Short Shares:
- Short Share 1 - Conceptual Framework
- Short Share 2 - Equity & Access
- Short Share 3 - Equity & Access Continued
- Short Share 4 - Universal Design for Learning
- Short Share 5 - Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS)
- Short Share 6 - Curriculum-Introduction
- Short Share 7 - Curriculum & Content Connectors
- Short Share 8 - Collaboration
- Short Share 9 - Instruction
- Short Share 10 - Assessment
- Short Share 11 - End of Year Review
- Watch the IDOE Year 1 Short Shares and Earn a Professional Growth Point
- Year 2 Short Shares TIPS:
- Short Shares TIPS - Year 2 Introduction video
- Short Share TIPS - Implicit Bias video
- Short Share TIPS-UDL Lesson Plan - UDL Lesson Plan video
- Short Share TIPS’ Classroom Level Data video
- Short Share TIPS’ Goal Development Checklist video
- Short Share TIPS - The SHAPE System video
- Shore Share TIPS - Specially Designed Instruction (SDI)
- Short Share TIPS - Year 2 In Review video
- Watch the IDOE Year 2 Short Shares and Earn a Professional Growth Point
- Year 3 Short Share TIPS:
- Short Share TIPS - Year 3 Introduction video
- Short Share TIPS - Compassion Fatigue video
- Short Share TIPS - Communication video
- Short Share TIPS - Results Driven Accountability (RDA) video
- Coffee Talks:
- Coffee Talk 1-Certificate of Completion
- Certificate of Completion: Changes for 2018-2019
- Coffee Talk 2-Accommodations: Daily Classroom vs Statewide Standardized Testing
- Coffee Talk 3-Goals
- Coffee Talk 1-Certificate of Completion
- Short Share - ESSA Reflections with Dr. Moore
- Accommodations and Modifications
- Alternate Assessment 1% Cap
- Certificate of Completion: Important Information
- Continuous Improvement Focused Monitoring System and General Supervision
- Charter Schools
- Child Count of Students with Disabilities
- Due Process (Complaints/Mediations/Hearings)
- Early Childhood Preschool Services
- Indiana Resource Network
- Laws, Rules and Interpretations
- Part B Results and Compliance Indicators
- Publications and Resources
- Related Links
- School-Based Medicaid
- State Advisory Council
- Statistics and Reports
- Universal Design for Learning
- 618 Reporting
- Autism Educational vs Medical
- Autism Information
- Autism-OSEP Memo 7-2015
- Certificate of Completion
- Certificate of Completion Reporting
- Communication
- Developmental Delay
- Developmental Delay Guidance for Students Ages 3-9
- Due Process Guide
- Dyslexia, Dysgraphia & Dyscalculia
- Educational Neuroscience ACES
- Educational Perspectives Survey
- First Steps to Preschool Special Education
- NWEA and or Formative Assessments FAQ 12-2016
- Preschool LRE
- Preschool Special Education Guidance
- SHAPE Stories-Evansville Vanderburgh
- SHAPE Stories-Hamilton Southeastern
- SHAPE Stories-Purdue Polytechnic
- SHAPE Stories-Warsaw Community Schools
- Specially Designed Instruction
For timely responses to Special Education questions and information requests, please contact our office by:
- Email at specialeducation@doe.in.gov
- Phone (local calls) at (317) 232‐0570
- Toll Free at (877) 851-4106
Additional Special Education Contacts and Information:
- Special Education Director and Local Administrator Contact List - Updated February 6th, 2019
For General Inquiries please contact specialeducation@doe.in.gov or (317) 232-0570