→ The Peer to Peer Program Data was due March 1, 2024. 

If you have any questions, please reach out to your START RCN Representative or Jana Benjamin.

RCN Showcase at the Spring RCN Leadership Day
We heard your request to learn more about what other RCN are doing and are excited to share our plan for the RCN Showcase! 

Beginning with the upcoming Spring RCN Leadership Day, continuing at the 2024 Fall RCN Leadership Day, and culminating with the 2025 Spring RCN Leadership Day, we will be sharing and learning across the RCN. 

How will the RCN Showcase work?
For each RCN Leadership Day, we will invite five RCN to present a point of pride for their RCN, such as a resource or tool, collaboration or partnership, coaching structure/process, or family engagement.

The other nine RCN will share an “item” or “artifact” at a RCN Showcase Gallery Walk at the RCN Leadership Day.

Each RCN will have an invitation between now and next spring to present at a RCN Leadership Day and two opportunities to share at the RCN Showcase Gallery Walk. 

Next Steps:
Detailed information has been sent to each RCN’s leadership. We hope you are as excited to share and to learn from each other as we are! 

The 23rd Annual START Conference will be held on April 22, 2024 at the Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center in East Lansing, Michigan. 

Registration for the Conference is almost full! The Conference will reach capacity so we encourage you to register soon! 

Thank you for submitting your baseline Focus Student Data.

Baseline Focus Student Data Profiles and Snapshots are now available for each student whose data were entered into the online form. The PDFs for each student are located in your START RCN Google Drive Folder under "23-24 Data Visualization from START."

The PDFs are de-identified and labeled with the Focus Student Code provided when completing the Focus Student Reporting form. 

Please contact Stephanie Pulido if you have any questions. 

Thank you for submitting your EPLI Individual Trainer Reports for the beginning of the year. The EPLI Individual Trainer Report Data (in the form of a spreadsheet) are now available. The spreadsheets are located in your START RCN Google Drive Folder under "23-24 Data Visualization from START."

Please contact Stephanie Pulido if you have any questions. 

The EPLI FAPE in the LRE Bootcamp, scheduled for April 16, 2024 at the L.V. Eberhard Center in Grand Rapids, is intended to support Current EPLI Trainers of START Content, with increasing confidence and competence, in training the START FAPE in the LRE content in their local contexts. 

This Bootcamp will be a very rigorous, yet engaging session; prerequisite work is required to prepare participants for the day. In addition to strengthening the content knowledge of trainers, strategies for the instructional delivery of the FAPE in the LRE training module will be shared and practiced.

The application is due April 9, 2024. 

📅Date: March 18, 2024
⌚Time: 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Location: Virtual

T3 Registration

The Michigan Department of Education, Office of Special Education (MDE, OSE) has developed guidance to build awareness and assist districts in developing a deeper understanding of the obligations to and responsibilities for adult learners with disabilities in the State of Michigan. The presentation will cover provision of FAPE, entitlement to age 26, Child Find, and programs and services.

Guest Speakers from MDE, OSE:

 The Statewide Autism Resources and Training (START) Project is funded by the Michigan Department of Education, Office of Special Education to provide training and technical assistance to educators in Michigan that serve students with ASD.

START Project | autismed@gvsu.edu | (616) 331-6480