Welcome to the AEM Quality Indicator Series, Part 5!

1. Welcome to the AEM Quality Indicator Series, Part 5! • We’ll begin shortly • Material is available for download at • http://bit.ly/QI5PAGE • To view closed captions: • Click on the Closed Caption button in your Zoom controls • Captions will appear along the bottom of your Zoom window when panelists start speaking

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3. AEM Quality Indicators for K-12 Part 5: Allocating Resources

4. The Quality Indicators for the Provision of AEM K-12 • A coordinated system • Timely manner • Written guidelines • Comprehensive learning opportunities and technical assistance • Systemic data collection • Use of data to guide changes • Allocation of resources

5. Objectives • Participants will be able to • Explain, in their own words, the intent behind AEM Quality Indicator 7. • Learn from the experiences and practices of other states to provide human, fiscal, and infrastructural resources toward AEM and accessible technology systems. • Know where to go to build more background knowledge and collect resources for further learning.

6. Presenters • Luis Pérez, AEM Center Technical Assistance Specialist •  Joy Lyons, AEM Coordinator, Bureau of Learner Strategies and Supports, Iowa Department of Education • Maggie Pickett, Digital Learning Consultant, Grant Wood Area Education Agency, Iowa • Angela Standridge, Education Specialist, Region 4 Education Service Center, Texas

7. About Quality Indicator 7 Coordinated System Timely Manner

8. Quality Indicator 7 • The agency allocates resources sufficient to ensure the delivery and sustainability of quality services to learners with disabilities who need accessible materials and technologies.  

9. Quality Indicator 7: Intent • Sufficient fiscal, human, and infrastructure resources are committed to ensure that learners’ needs are appropriately addressed (e.g., determination of need, provision of appropriate accessible materials and technologies, delivery of services, learning opportunities).

10. Sample Components of Quality Indicator 7 • Multiple types of resources are allocated • Fiscal • Human • Infrastructure • Resources are used to address the needs of all stakeholders

11. AEM & AIM

12. Pre Self-Reflection • To what extent is Quality Indicator 7 addressed in your own provision of materials and technologies for students? • Not started • Somewhat • Really cooking!

13. Texas Angela Standridge, Education Specialist, Region 4 Education Service Center, Texas

14. Texas • Texas Education Agency (TEA) support for accessible materials comes out of Instructional Materials

15. Texas • All materials on the procurement list purchased with state allocated funds must be in accessible format • Publishers must guarantee accessibility, have a third party audit to verify accessibility, provide to NIMAC, and provide a company contact for accessibility issues • If districts purchase outside the approved list, they are responsible for ensuring accessibility

16. Texas • ALL materials acquisition and Texas Proclamations

17. Texas • ALL materials acquisition and Texas Proclamations • Texas Education Code §31.028 (AEM and VI) • State test accommodations • APH • Bookshare • Learning Ally

18. Iowa Joy Lyons, AEM Coordinator, Bureau of Learner Strategies and Supports, Iowa Department of Education

19. Implementation Drivers connect to Quality Indicator 7

20. Educational Cascade

21. State Education Agency • Systems Intervention: • Access Coordination Team (ACT) • Technical Leadership: • uPAR study • Competency: • Professional Learning and Coaching Support

22. Regional Education Agency

23. Local Education Agency

24. Q&A Allocation of Resources

25. Questions for and Joy and Maggie (IA) and Angela (TX)

26. Post Self-Reflection • What will be your first action toward allocating resources for AEM and accessible technologies?

27. AEM Progress Monitoring Tool for K-12 on the Horizon! • Accessolution? • Traccessibility? • Accessiful?

28. Contact Information • Luis Pérez, TA Specialist, AEM Center • lperez@cast.org • @eyeonaxs • Please access digital handout for contact information and resources provided by our presenters from Iowa and Texas

29. Link to Our Evaluation Please take a moment to complete our evaluation http://bit.ly/AEMQIPart5

30. OSEP Disclaimer The contents of this presentation were developed under a cooperative agreement with the US Department of Education, #H327Z140001. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the US Department of Education and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government, Project Officer, Tara Courchaine, Ed.D.