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This library contains CADRE resources as well as State, Lead Agency and Parent Center resources. Please note that CADRE makes no endorsement of the State, Lead Agency and Parent Center resources included here, nor of any policies, procedures, processes, or documents specific to any item.
Intercultural dynamics are part of every mediation whether or not the participants are members of visible minority groups. In this session, participants will enhance cultural fluency through experiential exercises and exploration of the cultural values embedded in dispute resolution processes.
Since 2005, Idaho has offered IEP facilitation. The program has expanded into facilitation of all IDEA-related meetings {e.g., eligibility, manifestation determination meetings, resolution sessions), and represents 83% of all dispute resolution activity, with a trending decline in adversarial DR options. Participants will learn: philosophical guidelines for Idaho's program; marketing and networking strategies used to build the program; care and feeding of contracted facilitators; data tracking; cost comparative analysis; and Idaho's program and contractor evaluation processes. There will be...
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) prescribes specific means for resolving conflict within special education. For the most part, those means are based in legal practices. They have minimal emphasis on the human relations practices we know better resolve conflict. IDEA will be reauthorized in the future. This presents a great opportunity for including in IDEA requirements known to effectively solve conflict and avoid the final stage of special education conflict resolution, the due process hearing. More importantly, revising IDEA conflict resolution practices creates the...
This presentation examines how a district/program successfully moves from FIEP training to FIEP implementation. The session presenters have experience with conflict and dispute resolution at the state, regional, and district level. As a result of participating in this discussion and problem-solving session, individuals will: Review the fundamentals of the FIEP Strategy; Discuss the value of using a Design Thinking Process to scale up possibilities to results; Receive and understand the use of the FIEP Implementation Organizer, a tool that helps users design practicable solutions for their...
The Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE), Special Education Services (SES), has developed a system of Targeted Technical Assistance (TTA) using self-assessment tools to help guide local education agencies (LEA) in improving outcomes for students with disabilities. These self-assessments are designed to lay the groundwork for reflective practice on all areas of special education, including dispute resolution. This interactive presentation is designed to inform participants about: The development and creation of the self-assessment process from SEA and national perspectives; The use of...
In 2015, government agency panel members from DC’s Office of the Ombudsman for Public Education, the Office of the Student Advocate, the Office of Dispute Resolution (OSSE), and DC Public Schools as well as, community organization panel members from DC’s School Talk and Advocates for Justice in Education, defined and discussed the new era of investment in programs that focus on early dispute resolution and relationship building instead of special education litigation. Since then, the focus in the District has been on developing the individual dispute resolution processes for the various...
CADRE is excited to offer sessions delivered by a diverse panel of expert presenters and trainers. Below you can find information about each speaker.
CADRE is excited to offer sessions delivered by a diverse panel of expert presenters and trainers. Below you can find information about each speaker.
Tightened school district budgets are resulting in cutbacks in educational programming that are likely to lead to increased conflict. Simultaneously, funding challenges at the state level may negatively affect staffing levels and the capacity of state special education dispute resolution programs. This interactive session will offer participants an opportunity to discuss the possible effects of these challenges on policy, programmatic design and practice. How can we best manage these cuts at the local, state and national level without compromising critical procedural safeguards and the...
Presenter: Ellen Yamshon , Esquire, CPCU & 2004 Fulbright Scholar on Rwanda, Western Center for Alternate Dispute Resolution, Sacramento, CA The class of children with special education needs is much broader than a group of students with disabilities and adds another level of complexity to educational design. It challenges notions of what special education is and how it is delivered. This implies a drastic reorientation in how competing educational needs are addressed and the attendant mechanisms to resolve differences. The children of post-genocide Rwanda are a particularly vulnerable...
The class of children with special education needs is much broader than a group of students with disabilities and adds another level of complexity to educational design. It challenges notions of what special education is and how it is delivered. This implies a drastic reorientation in how competing educational needs are addressed and the attendant mechanisms to resolve differences. The children of post-genocide Rwanda are a particularly vulnerable population in a country where financial deficits are acute. Valiant efforts are being made to assure education for all in Rwanda, but challenges...
Pennsylvania offers a variety of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) options that have been conducted through virtual platforms since March 2020. For due process filings over the 2020-21 fiscal year (after the start of the pandemic), the parties reportedly reached an agreed resolution in over 85% of cases, a settlement figure that exceeds data for the 2018-19 and 2019-20 fiscal years. These figures indicate that the pandemic did not limit or restrict the willingness and ability of the parties to reach amicable resolution. Hearing officers are in a unique position to listen carefully to the...
The purpose of this presentation is to: Share information about mediation within the Scottish school education system, the legislative framework and current policies; Celebrate 10 years of Special Education Dispute Resolution in Scotland; Explore similarities and differences between the Scottish and USA approaches to Special Education Mediation; Consider the role of the student/child in Special Education Mediation, based on genuine Scottish scenarios
It’s time to share our Massachusetts gem! SpedEx is a new, exciting, quick and effective dispute resolution model. It builds trust and is child-focused. With SpedEx, we have only winners—not winners and losers, as in many other models. Free to schools and parents and available after an IEP is rejected or a hearing is requested, SpedEx offers a voluntary, trust-based approach to determining a free appropriate public education (FAPE) for a student. SpedEx helps to change the climate in special education by focusing on teaching and learning for students, not litigation and the adversarial...
The Special Education Information Center (SpedTex) was launched in September 2014 as a dynamic resource designed to deliver reliable and timely answers to parents, teachers and any stakeholder across the state of Texas who is committed to the success of students with disabilities. SpedTex functions as a statewide call center, providing resources and options in regards to stakeholder questions and concerns as they pertain to special education. The foundation of SpedTex, along with it's purpose, it's intent, our year to date data, what we can learn from the data as well as how to replicate and...
Come to this session to hear from four diverse stakeholder groups that came together to effectuate change and build capacity to more effectively manage conflict at the local level. Each group will tell how sharing power and resources, while focusing on mutual purpose, enabled all the groups to move forward to reach individual and shared objectives for more effectively serving children with special needs. You will hear from the Oklahoma State Department of Education, the Oklahoma Parents Center, the Oklahoma Directors of Special Education and the Special Education Resolution Center - Oklahoma...
This session is designed to provide those who work within the state complaint system at a State Education Agency an opportunity to discuss topics relevant to their work with their job alike peers. Participants will engage in small and large group discussion facilitated by the session speakers, and have the opportunity to network and share resources and ideas with their counterparts from other states. This session is open to SEA staff working directly in the state complaint system only. CADRE staff will approve attendees prior to the event.