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Current Info & Issues

Current Info & Issues. Lindsay Moir. Comhnadh Consulting. SYMPOSIUM 2008 Working Together for Kids & Teens with Disabilities. The IPRC Process. Identification ( 5 Categories &Definitions) 2 ways to get an IPRC Placement ( 5 Ministry options) The importance of the Needs statement

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  1. Current Info & Issues Lindsay Moir Comhnadh Consulting SYMPOSIUM 2008 Working Together for Kids & Teens with Disabilities

  2. The IPRC Process • Identification ( 5 Categories &Definitions) • 2 ways to get an IPRC • Placement ( 5 Ministry options) • The importance of the Needs statement • The importance of your signature • Appeals • Mediation • Review ( at least annually)

  3. Individual Education Plan • IEP Resource Guide 2004 (sec emphasis, more detailed) • The “Good IEP” • Why most IEPs are done • What are we do? • How do we plan to do it? • How will we know if it’s working?

  4. Transition to High School • Start mid- Grade 7 • Everybody has choice of both systems • PPM 117 Open Access • Visit schools

  5. Key words…. • Accommodation • Modification • Alternate • Academic courses • Applied Courses • Essential courses • Life Skills

  6. Credit vs an Education • Different diplomas • What is your goal? • Transition Planning Resource Guide • “Lighthouse Projects” • Coming changes in High Schools

  7. Special Education Transformation • Report of co-chairs of Special Education Roundtable • Blueprint for future Spec Ed in Ontario • Emphasis on compulsory teacher training • Stronger IEPs • More parental input • Better use of community professionals • Mediation process- rather than SEABs & Tribunals • “COLLABORATION” is theme

  8. Compulsory School Age- 18 • New legislation announced in Throne Speech Oct 12/05 • New diploma created recognizing skills development &alternate programming • “make school “different” for students who are going to work— “ie Bancroft model” • Focus on “education”, not just “credits” • These changes impact spec ed students too • “Lighthouse projects” • High Skills Majors in 27 boards for 2006-07

  9. Transition Planning Beyond High School • Transition Planning Resource Guide (MOE) • Connections (YSSN) • Learning Disabilities Assoc (LDAO) • Adolescence and Beyond (AO)

  10. Transition Planning • Regulation 181-----age 14+ • “Transition Planning Resource Guide”(M of Ed) • Transition from school to Community • Transition from school to employment • Transition from school to post- sec education • Ages 16, 18, 21- in Secondary Education • Long Range planning is essential

  11. Community Planning- Timmins model • 7 years is not enough! • Need interministerial collaboration • Need to look at kids “not going on” • Coordinate/collaborate service providers • Education vs. life skills • Handoff ----not drop off

  12. What is possible? • Anything that is good for kids IS possible • Recognizing problems and addressing them? • Every problem is just a roadblock to be gotten around • Work backwards from “what we want to do” NOT “forward from what we usually do”

  13. Discipline & the Exceptional Pupil • Safe Schools Act mythology vs fact • Sec 306 of Education Act---”mitigating circumstances” • Zero Tolerance misunderstood • OHRC sees disproportionate use as “discriminatory”

  14. Memo of Settlement April 13/07- “disability related behaviour” is a mitigating factor (as of Sept 2007)*(implemented Feb/08) • Minister to train board staff on “mitigating factors” • Bill 212 (Feb1/08) • PPM 141,142, 143,145

  15. “Correction” vs “Punishment” • “effective discipline brings about a positive change in behaviour” • Adults have a duty to outsmart children • “but they all will do it……..” (Gr 3 lesson) • “Discipline” defined

  16. Discipline & the Exceptional Pupil • Safe Schools Act mythology vs fact • Sec 306 of Education Act---”mitigating circumstances” • Zero Tolerance misunderstood • OHRC sees disproportionate use as “discriminatory”

  17. Memo of Settlement April 13/07- “disability related behaviour” is a mitigating factor (as of Sept 2007)*(implemented Feb/08) • Minister to train board staff on “mitigating factors” • Bill 212 (Feb1/08) • PPM 141,142, 143,145

  18. “Correction” vs “Punishment” • “effective discipline brings about a positive change in behaviour” • Adults have a duty to outsmart children • “but they all will do it……..” (Gr 3 lesson) • “Discipline” defined

  19. Full Day Every Day JK/SK • Announcement November 2007 • To be in place Sept 2010 • Creates new teaching jobs • A “space” problem in a few boards or schools • Impact on pre-school programs

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