Special Education Self-Assessment

Office Hours & LEA Support Opportunities

• 3 hour support session in your LEA or
• 1-hour ZOOM office hours options

3-hour support sessions in your LEA can be one-on-one with the SpEd Director or with a leadership team who is working through the details of the Self-Assessment Rubric.

NEW! Resources: Shared Google Folder

• Google slides with one strategy area per slide
• Groupings of strategy areas with correlating rubrics Google Sheets
• PDF file of each strategy area for team planning

The purpose of the special education self-assessment is to assist Local Education Agency (LEA) leadership teams in evaluating and improving their educational program serving students with disabilities receiving special education services. The special education self-assessment is completed annually by all LEAs, regardless of RDA framework determinations, and is intended to engage leadership teams in proactively addressing special education compliance and supporting student performance.

The window for completion of the special education self-assessment will be April 29, 2025 through September 26, 2025. LEAs will be required to complete the 23 compliance/strategy areas.

Materials on this page are provided as resources to support LEAs with engaging effectively in the self-assessment process. The special education self-assessments are submitted annually in the Ascend Texas application in the Texas Education Agency Login (TEAL).

TEA Self-Assessment Resources

TEA Differentiated Monitoring & Support Self-Assessment Webinar

TEA Self-Assessment Overview eLearning Module

Region 7 ESC Special Education Liaisons

Chalease Denson, cdenson@esc7.net

Gaelen Singler, gsingler@esc7.net