Professional Development and Training

An overview of the training and Professional Development offered, including NHSEIS.

The New Hampshire Department of Education, Bureau of Student Support can provide the following professional learning opportunities to school district/Special Education Private Providers in key special education topic areas at no cost.

Currently the Bureau offers a variety of trainings on key special education topics, the use of NHSEIS and Specially Designed Instruction. In addition to our trainings we operate a Mentor Program for New Directors and New Special Education Administrators and Coordinators meetings. Please see the descriptions below.

Key Special Education Topics

Measurable Annual Goals

Description:
Participants will learn how to use the student information/evaluation data to write Present Levels of Performance of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance (PLOAAFP –IEP Page 2). They will learn to use the pertinent student evaluation data combined with other current observation and assessment data to write present levels for each annual goal. They will learn what components need to be included in the writing of age –appropriate measurable annual goals and objectives based on the each annual goal present level information; and how to write measurable annual IEP goals and objectives to help build the student skills so they can access, participate, and make progress in the general curriculum.

Audience: Special educators, administrators, and related service personnel

Length of Training: 2 hours

A follow up work session is also available upon request; 1-2 hours in which staff bring their goals to work on or ask specific questions.

Written Prior Notice Guidance

Description:
This professional development for Written Prior Notice (WPN) was created with stakeholder input in response to district requests for the Bureau to provide guidance regarding the use of and the content of WPNs. This training utilizes IDEA regulations as a guide to remind participants of the intent of the WPN, when districts should use a WPN, and the required components of the form. The guidance document and model WPN form will be shared along with sample compliant WPNs.

Audience: Special educators, administrators

Length of Training: 2 hours

Specially Designed Instruction

Description:
Participants will learn what specially designed instruction is as defined by IDEA and how it applies to students with disabilities. They will gain a practical understanding of specially designed instruction, and the means in which it can be delivered as a service to special education students. Additionally, participants will learn how it is merged into the IEP using the special education process in a sequential and cyclical manner beginning with using evaluation data to describe unique student needs based upon present levels of academic and function performance, then identifying specific areas of specially designed instruction incorporated into special education services combined with annual measurable goals and progress monitoring.

Audience: Special educators, administrators, and related service personnel

Length of Training: 2 Hours

How to Request a Training:

Contact

Amy Jenks, NH Department of Education
Bureau of Special Education Support
101 Pleasant Street, Concord, NH 03301
Email: Amy.L.Jenks@doe.nh.gov
Phone: (603) 271-3842

Priority given to those schools currently going through or preparing for the NH Special Education Compliance & Improvement Monitoring process. Minimum 5 participants required.

Please contact Amy if you have questions.

Special Education Monitoring Trainings

NH Accessible Educational Materials Trainings

 

NHSEIS Trainings

NHSEIS trainings and webinars for Special Education Teachers, Office Professionals, and Personnel.

Contact

Brandy Pappas
Brandy.A.Pappas@doe.nh.gov
(603) 271-2178

New Special Education Coordinator Meetings

The New Hampshire Department of Education (NHED), Bureau of Special Education Support is pleased to continue offering a series of informational meetings for new Special Education Coordinators, who have held the coordinator position for three years or less, for the 2022-2023 school year. The intent of these meetings is to provide information and support, related to the special education process, to new Special Education Coordinators through a question and answer format.  

New Special Education Coordinator Meetings
Monday, November 21, 2022, from 9:00am – 11:00am
Monday, January 30, 2023, from 9:00am – 11:00am
Monday, April 17, 2023, from 9:00am – 11:00am

A registration form, including space for specific questions, needs to be completed and submitted at least two weeks prior to each scheduled meeting to ensure appropriate NHED staff attendance. Ordering your questions by importance will help ensure responses to those topics of greatest concern. You are welcome to register for all three meetings at one time.  

Please complete the registration form below and send to: 

Danielle Pelletier
Education Consultant II
NH Department of Education 
101 Pleasant Street 
Concord, New Hampshire 03301 
E-mail: danielle.pelletier@doe.nh.gov

Contact

Danielle Pelletier
Danielle.Pelletier@doe.nh.gov

Office of Finance Trainings

Contact

Lisa Moody
lisa.m.moody@doe.nh.gov