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VDOE Training and Technical Assistance Center (T/TAC) at VCU

Overview

The T/TAC is part of a statewide network which offers a variety of services tailored to assist personnel in schools, interagency coordinating councils and state-operated programs. Its primary purpose is to improve educational opportunities and contribute to the success of children and youth with disabilities (birth-22 years). The T/TAC at VCU serves Superintendent's Regions 1 and 8. (Funded by the Virginia Department of Education.)

Major Activities

• Provide long-term technical assistance to programs desiring to create significant programmatic changes.
• Offer local in-service training and regional workshops that bring noted speakers to address state-of-the-art topics.
• Publish the T/TAC newsletter, Innovations and Perspectives, three times a year.
• Maintain a lending library of books, videotapes, assessment instruments, and assistive and instructional technology.
• Conduct consultations by phone, e-mail, site visits and T/TAC based visits to personnel in schools that are warned and early childhood programs.

Project Staff

Fred Orelove, Principal Investigator
Sandy Wilberger, Project Co-Director/Program Specialist
Linda Oggel, Project Co-Director/Program Specialist
Program Specialists: Linda Ingleson, Phyllis Haynes, Sharon Jones, Joanne Gutkin, Kelly Ligon, Fran Smith, Chris Frawley, and Kathe Wittig
Kathy Lynch, Evaluation Specialist
Erik Froehlich, Technology Support Specialist
Sarah Clevinger, Office Support Specialist, Blackstone Office
Rose Eanes, Library Assistant

Contact

Web Address: http://www.vcu.edu/ttac