The Assistive Technology (AT) Network provides districts with the opportunity for ongoing collaboration, support, legal updates, tools and resources in the area of assistive technology for students with IEPs. The quarterly AT Network meetings include presentations from experts in the AT field, best practice learning opportunities, and development of district resources.

Co-Teaching is generally defined as two licensed educators, often a special education teacher, reading specialist, or EL specialist and a general education teacher, sharing equal responsibility for planning, delivering, and evaluating instruction, and learning to meet the diverse needs of students in a shared space. One goal of this inclusive instructional model is to increase the likelihood of equitable student outcomes by capitalizing on the expertise of both educators. It also allows for more personalized instruction to occur within the classroom. Both professional learning sessions and coaching are available.

WSPEI is all about partnerships and helping families and school districts find resources that help them build positive working relationships, leading to shared decision-making and positive outcomes for children’s learning. Services are available for both families and schools and are free of charge.

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The Wisconsin Regional Special Education Network (RSN) is offered in cooperation with DPI as a free support to all area directors of special education. The mission of the Wisconsin RSN is to improve the quality of educational services to students with disabilities. The RSN has identified the strategies of communication, staff development, and leadership for accomplishing this mission. The RSN also provides technical assistance to local special education leaders via phone calls, district visits, information dissemination, and discussions at CESA 2 RSN meetings.

Contact RSN Director Ted Noll at ted.noll@cesa2.org or 414.374.2410 to get started using the network.

The Special Education team provides consulting services to strengthen the capacity of school districts to meet the diverse needs of individual students with their special education and regular education programming. Consulting services can include but are not limited to: working with specific teachers or personnel, consulting on specific student issues, training on IEP writing and compliance, and more.

The Transition Advisory Network (TAN) provides ongoing collaboration, support, and learning opportunities to districts/staff around transition. Members have the opportunity to network with other districts and build a learning community around improving postsecondary outcomes for students with IEPs. TAN's focus includes collaboration with our ACP partners, creation of transition resources, building awareness around best practice, work around building a transition framework, and planning for a student transition event.

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The CESA 2 Transition Services support school districts in the creation of effective transition practices within their school district through the following professional development and consultative services, which are offered both in-person and virtually through synchronous and asynchronous formats:

• Coaching: Contracted individualized sessions to assist an individual or small group of educators.

• Group Trainings/Workshops: Trainings conducted in district, at CESA 2 facilities, or virtually

• District Transition Improvement Plan Development:  Work with the CESA 2 Transition and Identification Specialist to complete a district review/assessment and develop a district transition improvement plan.

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The WI AEM Center for Accessible Education Materials was designed to assist Wisconsin’s Local Education Agencies (LEAs) in meeting the federal requirements of the IDEA reauthorization of 2004 by securing access to print instructional materials in specialized formats, in a timely manner, for a student who has been determined as having a print disability. The WI AEM Center’s goal is to improve educational outcomes for students with disabilities through the timely provision and use of AEM.

Those looking for these special materials can head to cesa2.org/services/wi-aem-center.cfm to begin requesting these materials for the student in need.  Once the disability is determined, school districts can acquire AEM through direct purchases from publishers or non-profit Accessible Media Producers that operate in the U.S. under a copyright exemption to make books available to individuals with print disabilities.

The Transition Improvement Grant (TIG) combines two long-standing discretionary grants: The Wisconsin Statewide Transition Initiative (WSTI) and the Wisconsin Post High School Outcomes Survey (WPHSOS) into one dynamic, statewide IDEA discretionary grant.

TIG is intended to provide effective, targeted, and low-cost professional development to Wisconsin youth, parents, educators, and all stakeholders in the area of postsecondary transition to improve strategies that will positively affect the post school outcomes of students with disabilities.

This grant is designed to strengthen and accelerate the transition process in our Wisconsin schools to improve the quality of post-secondary transition plans, increase high school graduation rates, encourage outside agency connections and develop strong career and college readiness among our students with disabilities.

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