View CONFERENCE AGENDA
All materials provided by presenters have been posted below. If materials are not linked below they have not been provided by the presenter(s).
Tuesday (Pre-Conference) July 26
8:00 Registration Open
9:00-4:00 Special Education Administrators Quarterly 1
- Agenda
- Link to Special Education Administrator's Guide and Resources
- Getting to know the KSDE SETS Team PowerPoint
- First 100-Day Check-list for Special Education Administrators July-September
9:00-4:00 Title/LCP Administrators Quarterly 1- Materials Below
- Getting to know the KSDE SETS Team PowerPoint
- Improving Your Data Quality:KIDS PowerPoint
- McKinney Vento Slide Deck
9:00-11:30 School Mental Health Advisory Council Meeting
11:15-12:45 Kansas Infinitec Executive Board Meeting
1:00-3:30 Special Education Advisory Council Meeting
4:00-6:30 KASEA Executive Board Meeting
4:00-5:30 Kansas Infinitec CADRE Meeting
Wednesday, July 27 Conference
8:00 General Session
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, and Effective School Leadership- Principal Baruti Kafele
9:30 Breakout Block A
- A1: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Stakeholders Engagement
- A2: Maintenance of Effort and the Impact of ESSER
- A3: Improving Preschool Environments Data to Promote Preschool Inclusion in Kansas
11:00 General Session
Legal Implications and Responsibilities of All Education- Scott Gordon
12:00pm General Session- Keynote Luncheon
Presentation by Dr. Randy Watson, Kansas Commissioner, and Dr. Ben Proctor, Deputy Commissioner, Division Learning Services
- Dr. Watson's presentation can be found here- Commissioner's PowerPoint Presentations (ksde.org)
1:00 Breakout Block B
- B1: You're Getting on My Nerves: Addressing Adult and Student Dysregulation through the Lens of Applied Educational Neuroscience
- B2: Legal Updates on the Law of Special Education Part 1 Materials
- B3: Supporting Kansas Learners and Mental Health Needs: Leveraging the MTSS Framework and Community Partnerships Materials
- B4: Early Childhood Outcomes: Improving the Quality of Data through Training and Technical Assistance
2:30 General Session
Hot Topics Across All Programs- KSDE SETS Leadership, Luanne Barron KSSD, and Jon Harding KSSB
3:45 General Session
Human Trafficking in Kansas Schools: Jennifer Montgomery Kansas Attorney General
Thursday, July 28 Conference
8:00 Breakout Block C
- C1: Coordinating Budgets for Successful Outcomes
- C2: Are We Dealing With Behavior Trauma Or Social-Emotional Deficits in Schools?
- C3: Utilizing Data and Evidence to Make Effective Practice, Program, and Process Decisions
- C4: IDEA and Gifted File Review Q&A Drop-in Materials Below
9:30 Breakout Block D
- D1: Legal Updates on the Law of Special Education Part 2
- D2: Federal Funds From Procurement to Audits
- D3: 3-Tiered Approach to Text to Speech (TTS) in Instruction and Assessment
- D4: We Just Got Our First EL Student, Now What?
10:45 General Session
Fiscal and Legislative Update Dr. Craig Neuenswander & Dale Brungardt