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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

• Principal Kafele Bio
• PowerPoint Slide Handout

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

• ESI PowerPoint Slide Deck Presentation- PDF

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
  • Information Sheet for Early Childhood Funding
• 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
  • PowerPoint Slides 
  • IDEA and Gifted Requirements File Review: FAQ
  • IDEA & Gifted File Review Continous Improvement Monitoring Consideration Chart
  • IDEA & Gifted File Review Self-Assessment
  • Referral to Consider a Special Education Reevaluation

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