Special Education Directors

Calendar and Resources for Special Education Directors

Welcome to the Special Education Director resource page. On this page you will find a calendar with important dates and resources to help you meet requirements as well as technical assistance delivered through the Special Education Director Academy.   

Special Education Task Calendar

Task Calendar

Calendar Months

Table of Contents

January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December

June

Day

Task

Resources

Contact

1

Part B Payment Request due

ePeGs Part B Payment Request Guide

Finance

20

Part B Payment Request due

ePeGs Part B Payment Request Guide

Finance

30

MOSIS Student Core, Enrollment, and Attendance files due

Technical Assistance

Data

30

MOSIS Discipline file due

 

Data

30

Parentally Placed Private School Survey due

 

Data

July

Day

Task

Resources

Contact

1

Part B Budget Application due

ePeGS Part B Budget Application Guide

Finance

1

Part B Payment Request due

ePeGs Part B Payment Request Guide

Finance

1

LEA Written Procedures due

General Federal Guidance Manual

Finance

1

LEA Accounting System

Accounting Manual

Finance

1

Semi-Annual Certifications

Time and Effort Guidance

Finance

1

Federal Award Identification Information Due

Federal Award Identification Spreadsheet

Finance

26

2021 Virtual Special Education Director Academy

Registration

Compliance Data EP

August

Day

Task

Resources

Contact

1

Part B Payment Request due

ePeGs Part B Payment Request Guide

Finance

15

Core Data Screen 3 Contacts

MOSIS Core Data Manual

Data

15

Annual Secretary of the Board Report due

 

Finance

20

Part B Payment Request due

ePeGs Part B Payment Request Guide

Finance

September

Day

Task

Resources

Contact

1

Part B Payment Request due

ePeGs Part B Payment Request Guide

Finance

17

Watch CAP Year Webinar

Compliance Tiered-Monitoring IMACS FAQs

Compliance

17

Receive Special Education Program Review Report

Compliance Tiered-Monitoring IMACS FAQs

Compliance

20

Part B Payment Request due

ePeGs Part B Payment Request Guide

Finance

30

Part B Final Expenditure Report due

ePeGs Part B FER Guide

Finance

30

Preliminary Special Education District Profiles available

Profile and Profile Review Guide

Data

30

High Need Fund Application due

HNF Application

Finance

October

Day

Task

Resources

Contact

1

Part B Payment Request due

ePeGs Part B Payment Request Guide

Finance

15

MOSIS Educator Course and Assignment files due

 

Data

15

Early Childhood Special Education Final Expenditure Report due

ECSE FER Guide

Finance

18

Complete Step 1 in IMACS 30 days from date of Special Education Program Review Report

Compliance Tiered-Monitoring IMACS FAQs

Compliance

20

Part B Payment Request due

ePeGs Part B Payment Request Guide

Finance

31

Public Placement Fund Application due

PPF Application

Finance

November

Day

Task

Resources

Contact

1

Start Conducting Self-Assessment

Compliance Tiered-Monitoring IMACS FAQs

Compliance

1

Part B Payment Request due

ePeGs Part B Payment Request Guide

Finance

20

Part B Payment Request due

ePeGs Part B Payment Request Guide

Finance

30

Readers for the Blind Application

RBP Application

Finance

December

Day

Task

Resources

Contact

1

Part B Payment Request due

ePeGs Part B Payment Request Guide

Finance

3

Continue Self-Assessment

Compliance Tiered-Monitoring IMACS FAQs

Compliance

15

MOSIS Child Count and Environments of Students with Disabilities

Technical Assistance

Data

20

Part B Payment Request due

ePeGs Part B Payment Request Guide

Finance

January

Day

Task

Resources

Contact

1

Part B Payment Request due

ePeGs Part B Payment Request Guide

Finance

1

Semi-Annual Certifications

Time and Effort Guidance

Finance

15

Child Count Verification due

Instructions Child Count Verification Report

Data

20

Part B Payment Request due

ePeGs Part B Payment Request Guide

Finance

31

Special Education Finance Self-Assessment due

Tiered Monitoring and Fiscal Monitoring Guide

Finance

31

Blind Literacy Survey due

 

Data

February

Day

Task

Resources

Contact

1

Part B Payment Request due

ePeGs Part B Payment Request Guide

Finance

1

Self-Assessment in IMACS due

Compliance Tiered-Monitoring IMACS FAQs

Compliance

15

MOSIS Graduate and Dropout Follow-up due

Technical Assistance

Data

20

Part B Payment Request due

ePeGs Part B Payment Request Guide

Finance

March

Day

Task

Resources

Contact

1

Proportionate Share Carryover Release Report due

ePeGs Proportionate Share Carryover Release Request Guide

Finance

1

Part B Payment Request due

ePeGs Part B Payment Request Guide

Finance

20

Submit Follow Up Timelines in IMACS

Compliance Tiered-Monitoring IMACS FAQs

Compliance

20

Part B Payment Request due

ePeGs Part B Payment Request Guide

Finance

April

Day

Task

Resources

Contact

1

Submit verification documentation for the desk review

Compliance Tiered-Monitoring IMACS FAQs

Compliance

1

Submit documentation to clear CAPs

 

Compliance

1

Part B Payment Request

ePeGs Part B Payment Request Guide

Finance

1

Complete Step 2 in IMACS

Compliance Tiered-Monitoring IMACS FAQs

Compliance

20

Part B Payment Request

ePeGs Part B Payment Request Guide

Finance

30

Part B Budget Application Revision due

ePeGs Part B Payment Request Guide

Finance

May

Day

Task

Resources

Contact

1

Part B Payment Request

ePeGs Part B Payment Request Guide

Finance

15

Initial Evaluation Timelines due

Compliance Tiered-Monitoring IMACS FAQs

Compliance

15

Part C to B Transition

Compliance Tiered-Monitoring IMACS FAQs

Compliance

20

Part B Payment Request due

ePeGs Part B Payment Request Guide

Finance

Special Education Virtual Support Meetings

The Office of Special Education is collaborating with Special Education Consultants from the nine Missouri Regional Professional Development Centers to provide twice-monthly Zoom meetings. The meetings are scheduled to last one hour, from nine to ten a.m., and will cover a range of timely and relevant topics for special education professionals.

2023-24 Meeting Dates

Date

Time

Topic

Zoom Link

09/07/2023

9 a.m.

Back to School - Literacy Initiatives, Legislative Changes, and General Special Education Updates

Join Meeting

09/21/2023

9 a.m.

Science of Reading

Join Meeting

10/05/2023

9 a.m.

Making Quality Eligibility Determinations: Assessments and Evaluation Reports Join Meeting

10/19/2023

9 a.m.

Co-Teaching: Benefits and Strategies  Join Meeting

11/09/2023

9 a.m.

Post-Secondary Transition - Follow-up data and Resources (Missouri Interagency Transition Team and Missouri Connections) Join Meeting

12/07/2023

9 a.m.

High School Career Technical Education (CTE) The Law, The Data & The Enrollment Process

Join Meeting

01/11/2024

9 a.m.

The Discipline Process including Manifestation Determinations

Join Meeting

01/25/2024

9 a.m.

Behavior Intervention Specialist Model of Support

Join Meeting

02/08/2024

9 a.m.

Specially Designed Instruction

Join Meeting

02/22/2024

9 a.m.

Providing Speech and Language Interventions Join Meeting
02/29/2024 9 a.m.

Reading Comprehension and Reading Fluency: Digging Deeper to Develop an Appropriate IEP

Join Meeting

04/11/2024

9 a.m.

High Leverage Practices: Foundation for Success Join Meeting

04/25/2024

9 a.m.

Response to Intervention (RtI): Planning Effective Systems of Support with Interventions, Accommodations, and Modifications

Join Meeting

05/09/2024

9 a.m.

School Year Wrap-Up: Reminders, Lessons, and Victories

Join Meeting

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2023-24 Topic Resources

September 7, 2023: Back to school-Literacy Initiatives, Legislative Changes, and General Special Education Updates


September 21, 2023: Science of Reading


October 5, 2023: Making Quality Eligibility Determinations: Assessments and Evaluation Reports


October 19, 2023: Co-Teaching: Benefits and Strategies


November 9, 2023: Post-Secondary Transition:
Agency Resources


December 7, 2023: High School Career Technical Education (CTE) The Law, The Data & The Enrollment Process


January 11, 2024: The Discipline Process including Manifestation Determination


January 25, 2024: Introducing the Role of: Behavior Consultant


February 8, 2024: Specially Designed Instruction 


February 22, 2024: Providing Speech and Language Interventions


February 29, 2024: Reading Comprehension and Reading Fluency: Digging Deeper to Develop Appropriate IEPs

2022-23 Topic Resources

August 25, 2022: Welcome back (Monthly Guidance, Local Compliance Plan/State Plan/Standards & Indicators Updates, Seclusion & Restraint Guidance, and Transfer Process)


September 8, 2022: Progress Monitoring


September 22, 2022: Core Data and MOSIS Training


October 6, 2022: Prior Written Notice (PWN)


October 20, 2022: Enhancing Parent Engagement in Schools


November 10, 2022: Missouri Schools for the Severely Disabled (MSSD) Eligibility


December 8, 2022: Graduation and Termination of Special Education and Related Services 


January 5, 2023: Special Education Profile


January 19, 2023: Determining Placement and Least Restrictive Environment: The What, Why, When and How


February 9, 2023: MO Assistive Technology - using technology in the classroom / AEM


February 23, 2023: Missouri Assessment Program - Alternate (MAP-A)


March 9, 2023: Career Education Special Needs (CESN)


April 6, 2023 Emotional Disturbance and Autism: Overview of Eligibility


April 20, 2023: Resources for Students with Autism: Project ACCESS and the ASCEND Program


May 11, 2023 End of The Year Wrap-Up: End of the Year To-Dos and Resources

2021-22 Topic Resources

September 9, 2021: Changes to intellectual disability criteria that went into effect June 30, 2021


September 23, 2021: Parentally Placed Private and Parochial School Students with Disabilities


October 7, 2021: Review of Existing Data


October 21, 2021: SPP/APR Stakeholder Involvement and Questions from the Field


November 4, 2021: S.M.A.R.T. Goals


November 18, 2021: Students with Disabilities and Shortened School Days


December 9, 2021: Other Health Impaired - 2021 Eligibility Changes


December 23, 2021: Questions from the Field


January 6, 2022: Postsecondary Transition Planning


January 20, 2022: Observations


February 10, 2022: Present Levels of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance (PLAAFP)


February 24, 2022: Extended School Year (ESY)


March 10, 2022: Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE)


March 24, 2022: Questions from the Field


April 7, 2022: Specific Learning Disability (SLD)


April 21, 2022: Evaluation and Assessment


May 5, 2022: Vocational Rehabilitation/Pre-Employment Transition Services


May 19, 2022: Educational Benefit Review (EBR)

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RPDC Compliance Consultant Information

Region

Compliance Consultant

Phone Number

Contact

  1. Southeast

Tiffiney Smith

573-651-2621

Email

  1. Heart of Missouri

Lynn Lynch

573-424-7847

Email

  1. Kansas City

Bailey Tennesen

816-235-5957

Email

  1. Northeast

Dawn Lichtenberg

660-785-6080

Email

  1. Northwest

Julia Schmitz

660-562-1995

Email

  1. South Central

Leasa Day

573-341-6821

Email

  1. Southwest

Amy Phipps

417-836-4082

Email

  1. St. Louis

Jeanne Rothermel

314-724-6736

Email

  1. Central

Julie Harris

660-232-0387

Email

 

2024 - Special Education Director Academy

Image contains a tree with different colored hands, a blue band across the middle of the image. The words say Special Education Director Academy, July 24-26, 2024. Registration Opens April 22. Focusing on New Special Education Directors, but All Are Welcome.

The Special Education Director Academy (SEDA) is hosted by the Office of Special Education. SEDA is July 24-26, 2024, at the Stoney Creek Hotel, 2601 S Providence Road in Columbia, Missouri. Sessions will run from 10:00 a.m. Wednesday to 2:30 p.m. Friday. each day. Session topics include leadership, early childhood special education, dispute resolution, discipline, postsecondary transition, data reporting and use, special education program requirements, and more. Registration will open April 26, 2024.

2023 - Special Education Director Academy Resource Documents

2023 SEDA Program Book

Missouri's AEM Project

Missouri's Access to Educational Materials Project

Assessments and Evaluations

Assessments and Evaluations

Child Compliant Process

Child Compliant Process Overview

Data Overview, MOSIS & Child Counts

Data Overview, MOSIS, and Child Counts

Resources:

2024 Data Code Sets

Data Personnel Reporting

Data Teacher Example

ECSE Educational Environment Decision Tree

ECSE Educational Environments Worksheet

2023-24 Special Education Reporting Table

Discipline, Seclusions & Restraint

Discipline, Seclusion & Restraint

Dispute Resolution

Dispute Resolution and FIEP

ECSE Compliance, Data, & Finance

ECSE Compliance, Data, and Finance

Resources:

ECSE Educational Environment Decision Tree

ECSE Educational Environments Worksheet

Effective Practices Overview

Effective Practices Overview

I'm a Leader Now What

I'm a Leader Now What

It's Wednesday and I'm Still a Leader

Postsecondary Transition

Postsecondary Transition

Resources:

Indicator 13 Checklist

Transition Services Activities

Transition Example Guidebook

Coordinated Set of Needed Activities

Profile Review

Profile Review

Resources:

Target Comparison Sheet

Incidence Rate of AU Map

Incidence Rate of OHI Map

Incidence Rate of Placement Map

Incidence Rate of SLD Map

Incidence Rate of ALL Map

Unilateral Removal Handout

Special Education 101 and 102

Special Education 101

Special Education 102

Special Education Finance

Who We Are

What We Are About

Resources:

Special Education Finance Resources

Other Resources

Postsecondary Transition Training Opportunity

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