Keeping Pace
Special Education Update
October 8, 2018
Random Moments!
Below is the list of those randomly selected for Random Moments for this quarter. So you know, and can help a friend remember:
Lauren Baumgart: November 6, 9:32 a.m.
Kerry Munsey: November 7, 10:05 a.m.
Ed Trisch: November 7, 10:41 a.m.
Jenny Dunton November 8, 1:54 p.m.
Hannah Wade: November 15, 10:05 a.m.
Kerry Munsey: December 7, 2:10 p.m.
EdTrisch: December 7, 8:51 a.m.
Hannah Wade: December 14, 10:09 a.m.
Sarah Alguire: December 18, 9:36 a.m.
We are required to have 100% response to the random moments (response to the email you will receive). We get a positive hit if you are working with (or regarding) a student with an IEP during your moment. We get a negative hit if you are doing anything else with your jam-packed job. This is part of the formula for determining our district medicaid reimbursement. If you have any questions, please call. Glad to help those who haven't been selected, or at least selected in quite some time and need a refresher.
Check! Section 7: Location
PLC October 8
SE Progress Reports at report card time
Transition Consent - surprise! Follow up...
To note:
- we must have written consent (a signature) for each student who will take TPI or STAT
- If you get them back signed, CELEBRATE!
- if you send home, make several attempts/phone calls to get that written consent, and your caseload student's parent does not respond, document your attempts (preferably in EdPlan, under parent contacts for that student), and move forward with the evaluation (STAT or TPI).
- if the parent REFUSES to consent, do not do the STAT or TPI. In section 2 PLAAFP where you would discuss the results of that test, you note that there are no results as the parent refused consent to do the evaluation. You then just lean on your informal conversation with the student, and the basic 4 questions (what do you want to be when you grow up, where do you want to live, what are your plans, etc.....). Also, In section 3, where you would name the test you gave, instead you will note "parent refused consent for STAT/TPI". Again, lean on basic conversation questions to answer and fill in the rest of section 3.
Please feel free to call if you have questions.
State Assessment change - grade 8
Please make sure that you are selecting appropriate accommodations in the IEP, and that the need for the accommodations is directly addressed in the PLAAFP, and connected directly to impact from their disability. When we request accommodations, we need to also include documentation for why the accommodation is appropriate and necessary.
Things that will be the same:
- Students will be pre-identified in the Secure Site for the PSAT 8/9.
Things that will be different:
- College board assessments are timed and do not allow self-pacing. Students must use the entire time allotted for each test. If approved for extended time, students must use the entire time for which they are approved.
- Students will take a paper/pencil administration- there is no option for online testing.
- Unless absent, students are expected to test on the initial test day April 9.
- The standardized nature of the SAT requires advance accommodation request for the universal tools, designated supports, and accommodations required by the students that would have traditionally been used on the M-STEP.
Information pulled directly from the Spotlight from MDE)