Endings & Beginnings: Farewell to the RSE-TASC! Hello Regional Partnership Center!

By Patti Slobogin, Director

July/August 2019

The Lower Hudson Regional Special Education Technical Assistance Support Center (RSE-TASC) is closing its doors on June 28, 2019 (but don’t panic! See below). It has been our privilege and pleasure to serve the educators of the Lower Hudson by providing training and technical assistance...

Data-Driven Decision-Making

By Patti Slobogin, Director, Donise Robinson and Denise Jaffe, Special Education School Improvement Specialists

June 2019

The use of data is not new to schools, teachers, administrators, state education agencies, or parents. Indeed, data has been used by school administrators and teachers since schooling began; however, never has data literacy been as important as it is in the wake of the No Child Left Behind...

Increasing Post-School Success through Interagency Collaboration

By Stephanie Wozniak, Transition Specialist

May 2019

Interagency collaboration is a predictor of post-school success, correlated with positive post-school outcomes in education and employment. It is defined as “a clear, purposeful, and carefully designed process that promotes cross agency, cross program, and cross disciplinary collaborativ...

How Can We Improve Deeper Learning for Students with Disabilities?

By Randy Ascher, Special Education School Improvement Specialist & Patti Slobogin, Director

April 2019

RSE-TASC Special Education School Improvement Specialists across New York State have the opportunity to collaboratively collect data in multiple classrooms where students with disabilities are educated, using the RSE-TASC Explicit and Specially Designed Instruction Walk-Through tool. This...