Below is a link to the registration site for the first in a series of Statewide Systems of Support (SSOS) Webinars.  This Webinar is scheduled for July 15th, 2008 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. EDT.  There is no charge for the Webinars which are open to Department of Education-funded projects only.  We are also providing a chapter entitled A Mountain Beyond Mountains, by Paul Reville, taken from the Handbook on Statewide Systems of Support developed by the Center on Innovation and Improvement (CII). We hope that you will download this thought-provoking chapter from the registration site and read it prior to the Webinar.

The SSOS series is being planned and carried out collaboratively between OESE and OSEP technical assistance providers in response to recommendations made following the 2008 Leveraging Resources Conference.  It is our hope that this event will help to re-invigorate the dialogue that started at that meeting, and subsequent Webinars will help us to continue this discourse until we meet again at our next Leveraging Resources Conference scheduled for March 25th and 26th, 2009.   

If you are interested in learning from and with your colleagues about how you can best work with States as they plan and implement their SSOS, please plan on participating in this first Webinar.  Subsequent Webinars will be developed, based on the input you provide to us during this initial event.