Calendar of Important Due Dates for Special Education Directors
Year-at-a-Glance FY 2014-2015 (PDF)
Funding Opportunity - Indicator 14 Post School Outcomes Interviews Funds Request
Purpose: The Colorado Department of Education requires school staff in Colorado school districts to conduct brief interviews with former students who left high school one year ago. The purpose of the interview is to learn what former students (leavers) do after they leave high school. This information is used to help schools improve programs for students with disabilities who are still in high school. [More information]
Resources/Guidance
- Child Find Directory
- Data Reports
- Guidelines/Handbooks
- READ Plans and Students with Disabilities (PDF)
- Standard Record Review (DOC)
- Uploading Documents for Review
- Uploading Documents for Review - Enrich Users (PDF)
- Uploading Documents for Review - Non Enrich Users (PDF)
- Writing Standards-Aligned Advanced Learning Plans (ALPs) and Individualized Education Programs (IEPs): A Supplemental Guidance Document for Designing Effective Formal Educational Plans, December 2014 (PDF)
This guidance document is a collaborative effort of the Offices of Special Education, Gifted Education and Family/School Partnerships to provide information for the field about designing effective formal educational plans aligned with the Colorado Academic Standards.
Federal Application Narrative Process
HB11-1277
- For more information about the HB11-1277 and its key activities, including training guidance on new eligibility categories and their criteria: Training for ECEA Eligibility Categories
Educational Surrogate Parent (ESP) Rules and Requirements
- ESP Guidance Memo, July 2014 (PDF)
- ESP Rules, 1 CCR 301-8, 2220-R-6.02(8) (PDF)
- Assignment of an ESP Form 2014-2015 (PDF)
- Fast Fact - Educational Surrogate Parents (ESP) General Q & A (PDF)
Director's Meetings
- Directors' Meetings Handouts
- Fall Director's Meeting, September 11-12, 2014
- Spring Director's Meeting , April 25, 2014
- New Director's Orientation Meeting Handouts
- August, 2013
- August, 2014
OSEP Visit and Letters
Results Driven Accountability FAQs
Comprehensive Plan Documents
- Anticipated Date of AU Adoption of HB11-1277 (DOC)
- Comprehensive Plan - Appendix A (DOC)
- Model Comprehensive Plan (DOC)
- Directions for Submitting Assurances and Comprehensive Plan (DOC)
- Assurances Statement (DOC)
- Assurance Statement of Changed Plan (DOC)
- AU Request for Approval to Change the Model Comprehensive Plan (DOC)
- Side by Side ECEA to support Comprehensive Plan (PDF)
- AU Comprehensive Plan Webinar (PDF)
- Checklist for Appendix B AU Specific Information (PDF)
- Optional Guiding Questions (PDF)
- Questions from the Field, Updated June 2012 (PDF)
Contacts
- Special Education Staff
- Colorado Special Education Directors
- ESSU Responsibility List, Updated 8/29/2014 (PDF)
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