This CDE-approved self-assessment tool provides three checklists that address 1) district and school resource issues; 2) system policy, procedure, and practice issues at district, school, and classroom levels; and 3) environmental factors, all designed to aid in efforts to identify possible root causes of disproportionality and to help districts develop hypotheses and action plans for more detailed explorations of racial disproportionality.
Losen, D.J., Annotated Checklist for Addressing Racial Disproportionality in Special Education. Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (2008).
Provides an overview of this New York University self-assessment tool.
Training Module 1: Overview of Metropolitan Center for Urban Education’s Disproportionality Workbooks
Training Module 2: Using the Data Analysis Workbook
Training Module 3: Knowing A Disproportionality Problem Based On Numbers
Training Module 4: Using the Equity in Education Workbook
Training Module 5: Discussing Culturally Responsive Education Beliefs
Training Module 6: Common Causes of Disproportionality in Special Education and Suspension
Edward Fergus, presenter (2010) State Performance Plan Technical Assistance Project, California Department of Education.
The Success Gaps Rubric was developed at the IDEA Data Center, a technical assistance center at Westat funded by the U.S. Department of Education‘s Office of Special Education Programs. The rubric is the newest CDE-approved self-assessment tool having been published in June 2021.
The Success Gaps Rubric is designed to help any school district or school identify the root causes for success gaps. The Rubric addresses five content areas: 1) Data-based Decision-making, 2) Cultural Responsiveness, 3) Core Instructional Program, 4) Assessment – Universal Screening and Program Monitoring, and 5) Interventions and Supports.
In addition to the Rubric, there is a guide, Completing the Success Gaps Rubric.
Provides an overview of the self-assessment tool developed by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
Daniel Losen, presenter (2011) State Performance Plan Technical Assistance Project, California Department of Education.
