Activity Matrix CAPTAIN

The Activity Matrix is designed to infuse IEP Goals into each activity of the student's day. It ensures that IEP goals are addressed throughout the day and offers a way for service providers to collaborate. It is a tool to be used with the EBP Naturalist Intervention.

Antecedent-Based Intervention for Individuals with Autism

This AFIRM EBP Brief is designed to help you learn the step-by-step process of planning for, using, and monitoring the EBP of Antecedent Based Intervention with learners with Autism. That, is, how to set up the environment for success.

Direct Instruction EBP for ASD Brief Packet

This AFIRM EBP Brief is designed to help you learn the step-by-step process of planning for, using, and monitoring the EBP of Direct Instruction with learners with Autism.

Visual Supports for Individuals with Autism

This AFIRM EBP Brief is designed to help you learn the step-by-step process of planning for, using, and monitoring the EBP of Visual Supports with learners with Autism. That, is, how to set up the environment for success.

Report: Evidence-Based Practices for Children, Youth, and Young Adults with Autism 2020 by National Clearinghouse on Autism Evidence and Practice

This report describes a set of evidence-based practices that have clear evidence of positive effects with children and youth with autism.

Prompting EBP for Individuals with Autism

This AFIRM EBP Brief is designed to help you implement the EBP of Prompting with learners with Autism to ensure they are independent, successful and not prompt dependent.

Reinforcement for Individuals with Autism

This AFIRM EBP Brief is designed to help you learn the step-by-step process of planning for, using, and monitoring the EBP of Reinforcement with learners with Autism.

California MTSS Framework

Executive Function Quick Guide

California Practitioner's Guide for Educating English Learners with Disabilities

The CDE published CA Practitioners' Guide for Educating English Learners with Disabilities can be easily accessed in a Section and chapter by chapter format via the Imperial County SELPA's website.

Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement

A comprehensive document on how create focused school and systemwide improvement for students.

We Shake Hands at the Door: How a Focus on Relationships is Driving Improvement in Chula Vista

How a focus on relationships is driving improvement in Chula Vista

English Language Development Connectors for the Alternate ELPAC

Document to help educators understand the relationship betwwen the 2012 California English Language Development Standards (2012 ELD Standards) and the English Language Development Connectors (ELD Connectors), which are reduced in breadth, depth, and complexity for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities.

Notable Changes to California's State Performance Plan

Getting Better at Getting More Equitable: Addressing Racial Inequities

A paper on the intersection of continuous improvement and equity work in education. The paper explores the conditions and capacties required in County Offices of Education to integrate these two, often separate lines of work and provides examples of some COEs that are engaged in promising practices. The paper describes how equity work and continuous improvement can be applied to challenges of systemic racism and to support promising practices in place.

Family Engagement Toolkit. Continuous Improvement

The toolkit is designed to address the following questions and challenges: Family engagement activities are often isolated from other initiatives in districts; Family engagement staff in districts often work in a silo, not in collaboration with other district departments; Families of low-income students and families of students of color are often underrepresented in family engagement activities; Educators struggle with how to evaluate family engagement programs and activities, beyond tracking the number of participants attending events; While opportunities for family members to gain skills and knowledge are growing, building educators’ capacity to partner with families is not yet a focus in many districts.

Family Engagement Framework. A Tool for California Districts

This Family Engagement Framework is intended to provide guidance to educators, districts, schools, families, and communities as they plan, implement, and evaluate strategies across multiple programs for effective family engagement to support student achievement and close the academic achievement gap.

Alignment of Evidence-Based Practices for English Learners and Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Some English Learner students with disabilities have Autism. These teaching and Learning strategies are adapted from California's ELA/ELD frameworks and align with EBPs for students with ASD.

Appendix 3.5: English Learner Initial Referral and Decision Making Process

Appendix 3.5 English Learner Initial Referral and Decision Making Process from California Practitioners’ Guide for Educating English Learners with Disabilities