Massachusetts Council for Exceptional Children

Massachusetts Council for Exceptional Children Special Spring Event
*please note revised date*

The New Massachusetts Educator Evaluation Framework and Model System: Overview and Considerations for Evaluating Special Education Teachers

Samantha Warburton

May 10, 2012* from 4:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Yawkey Sports Training Center
512 Forest Street | Marlborough, MA 01752

Samantha Warburton from the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
(ESE)’s Educator Evaluation Team, is offering a special session to members of MACEC.
She will present an overview of the new educator evaluation system including a review of
the evaluation rubric and its Standards, Indicators and Elements. Samantha is an Educator
Development Specialist for Special Education and has been working with the special
education office to help ESE learn how to make these regulations work effectively for
special education teachers and administrators and for students with disabilities.

Space is limited to fifty participants and registrations will be considered in order of their
receipt. There is no fee for this event, but the Executive Board does ask that you consider
your availability carefully before registering so that we may include as many members as
possible. Join us at 4:30 for a snack and networking with colleagues. Samantha will begin
her talk at 5:00.

Please register by email: massachusettscec@gmail.com. You will receive a
confirmation email if you are included in the first fifty participants.

To renew your CEC membership, or register as a new member,
please visit: http://www.cec.sped.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Membership

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APRIL is Autism Awareness Month
Visit Massachusetts' Act Early Campaign - Learn the Signs. Act Early.

Please add your ideas to our Autism Blog (it's above and linked here)

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The Massachusetts Model System for Educator Evaluation
Just Released (1/11/2012): www.doe.mass.edu/edeval/model/

The Model System is a comprehensive educator evaluation system designed by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE), pursuant to the new educator evaluation regulation, 603 CMR 35.00.

Memorandum on Procedures Lite
Released by Marcia Mittnacht, State Director of Special Education (12/16/2011)

If you are interested in receiving more information from DESE about this new model, please email: massachusettscec@gmail.com.

NCLB waivers announced, states and U.S. DOE committed to serving students with disabilities
Ten states - including Massachusetts - received NCLB waivers, allowing them to replace NCLB targets with targets of their own. CEC will closely monitor implementation of the waivers, but believes states are committed to ensuring that students with disabilities will be included appropriately in accountability systems.

Bullying Prevention and Intervention Resources
This resource document contains tools to assist schools and IEP Teams to prevent bullying of students with disabilities and to enable Teams to comply with special education-related provisions of the law.

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