Keeping Pace
Special Education Update
November 2014
County-Wide Transition Committee
MedicaidCongrats on logging through October and providing the reports! Please send the November report as soon as your November billing is complete. | Communication You continue to be the most valuable link between students and their general education supports. Thank you for keeping the lines of communication open and fluid! | Generous Thanks... In sincere gratitude for the difficult work you do on behalf of students every day...thank you. |
Medicaid
Congrats on logging through October and providing the reports! Please send the November report as soon as your November billing is complete.
Communication
IEP News and Notes
- Please have the parent sign the attendance sheet at the IEP meeting if they are in attendance.
- Parent must sign and excuse anyone who is absent from the meeting that was invited and is not in attendance.
- Before you finalize the IEP, check for draft REEDs and METs that should be finalized first.
- When final, print new IEP-at-a-glance and distribute to all teachers for the student. Staff are most appreciative of all information you can pass along.
- If you have a new student, check EdPlan to see if there is a copy of a previous IEP. We are at the mercy of other districts to send information, and this may be the quickest way to expedite getting it. If the student has joined us from out of state, please call Kim to see if a copy has arrived.

Special Olympic Bowlers Hit the Lanes!
Amendment Notes
- Yes, we can do an amendment for a switch of consult services to direct services for social work.
- The order of amendment events: call, finalize, sign
- When pulling an amendment, the district and parent must agree on the changes. If you receive verbal agreement from a parent on the phone, just note it on the amendment. It is in our best interest to get a signature on the agreement, as that stands foolproof that the parent agreed. However, it is not required.
- Case managers continue to be the link to communicate changes with staff. This may require an updated IEP-At-a-Glance, an email, or a personal/phone communication.
REED Review
New information was forwarded this week regarding "assessment due by" dates for REEDs.
The order of REED events: draft, sign, enter parent consent date only if testing, finalize
Help for the Holidays (or just the busy days!)
One, Cohesive, and Special Resource Team
Measurable Goals
We seem to be coming along with our focus on measurable goals. Though this is not new, our attention to this detail most certainly has been heightened recently. As an assist, remember that the guide is built right into EasyIEP to help you. Look at the blue bar directly above where you will type your goal, and there is a template that will help you remember what to include.
By (DATE)
student will (SKILL)
with (CRITERIA)
on (ASSESSMENT).
Many weak goals have GREAT objectives! Just tapping those and moving some more specific information up to the goal line can make a goal measurable and focused.
**Final note: You may keep records in any way that works for you at this point. The monitors have simply indicated that documentation may be requested if a visit it made. When we last discussed this at PLC in February, 2014, some people shared ideas for their record keeping system. I can start an email thread if you would like to trade ideas for how others are handling it. Let me know if you are interested in that.