ODSS Association Updates

Andrea Kunkel, CCOSA General Counsel & ODSS Executive Director

For the 2022-23 school year, ODSS has already welcomed 70 new special education directors into the First-Year Directors Project. That’s the highest number we’ve ever had, and since it’s still early, we expect even more to join as the year goes on.

In July ODSS hosted new and early career directors for a one-day boot camp at Yukon High School, emphasizing the topics the group needed to begin the school year. Fall training sessions for the First-Year Project begin in September.

Join us on October 26 and 27 at Moore-Norman Technology Center’s South Penn Campus for the ODSS Best Practices Conference. Our day one presenter is entertaining and knowledgeable school attorney Karen Haase, a frequent speaker at LRP and other popular education conferences. On day two, we’ll be focusing on behavior topics and other burning issues addressed in the new Special Education Policies and Procedures Manual, which the State Board of Education approved and made immediately effective on July 28.

Watch for registration information soon!