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What’s Up?. We say…. I don’t do it for the money! This is the fun part! Wasn’t that great what Mario (or any student) did today?. We also say…. If I could just work with the kids! When is summer break? Only 168 days left! What happened to paper reduction?. Our Mantra….
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We say… • I don’t do it for the money! • This is the fun part! • Wasn’t that great what Mario (or any student) did today?
We also say… • If I could just work with the kids! • When is summer break? • Only 168 days left! • What happened to paper reduction?
Our Mantra… • Person-first language. • Intervention, Intervention, Intervention! • The solution is where the child is!
What is this Leading to? Compliance
Top Complaints • #11Confidentiality (Watch what you say & where) • #10 Access to Records (Parent request-45 days) • #9 Progress Reports (Not just code, measurable)
Student Progress • Measurable IEP goals • Progress must be reported in the same mathematical language as the baseline • It is not just a code (TM, SPM, etc.) • Rate of progress—on a trajectory to achieve goal by the end of the IEP period • Progress—at least as often as peers.
More… • #8Evaluation Timelines (60 day timeline, verbal or written) • #7IEP not in Place (At beginning of school year for current situation) • #6PWN/Procedural Safeguard (If not a consensus, District Rep makes final decision)
More… • #5Teacher/Staff Not Qualified (Special Education Sub is Ok) • #4IEP Participants (Don’t sign if not there, must have required people) • #3Evaluations (All suspected areas of disability) • #2Failure to provide FAPE (Provide appropriate education)
Team Members Who must attend? • Parents • General education teacher • Special education teacher • District Representative • Evaluator- Three-year
Number One is… • #1 Failure to Fully Implement the IEP Accommodations, Behavior Plans, Change in Placement, Eligibility Determination, ESY, Exit from Services, Goals and Objectives, IEEs, IEP Copy, Instructional Hours, LRE, MET, Placement, Suspension/Expulsion, Transportation
TUSD • #1 Failure to Fully Implement IEP • #2 IEP Participants • #3 FAPE • #4 Evaluations • #5 Progress • #6 Placement • #7 PWN • #8 Records
Who to go to? Teacher /Service Provider ↕ Psychologist/Principal/Lead Service Provider ↕ Lead Psychologist ↕ Assistant Director/Program Coordinator ↕ Executive Education Director
If I call on you… • Type of complaint-State (formal or informal) District, OCR, Due Process • Timelines to respond—Quickly!
PrioritiesA hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove, but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child....... Forest Witcraft What we do…