Monday Morning Minute
Special Ed Dept weekly update January 29, 2024
This week
Monday
Mosier Department meeting is cancelled. Teachers should report to meeting with Principal Flynn. I will connect with everyone individually this week to follow up on Progress reporting feedback
Tuesday
ETLs we will meet virtually. I will send you a link.
MESMS report cards being sent out so PRs due to Beth and Amy next Tuesday, 2/6.
Wednesday & Thursday afternoon 12:30 - 3:30 virtual
DESE New IEP Training of Trainers workshop. There are still room to attend if you are interested in being on the New IEP Task Force and want a jump start on training. Let me know as soon as possible and I will send you the link to register.
Friday
SHHS-Grades closed 1/26 so progress reports due to Beth and Amy for review today
CPL needs to match Goal/Obj
The Current Performance Level written in the students IEP has to reflect what the student can currently do related to the skill area. From the baseline data, the starting point, the goal is written to reflect what we want the student to be able know, understand, or do by the end of the IEP period. The objectives are how the student gets to that end point but everything has to be related and the data needs to be consistent. For example, if we want a student to be able to do something 8 out of 10 times by the end of the IEP period you should list what they currently can do out of 10 times, ie 2 out of 10. If the student can already do it 7/10 times it isn't a very ambitious goal so we need that starting point. Sometimes the student can do it 7 or 8 out of 10 times but with 0 independence. Then your goal is an independence goal
Draft vs Summary
In last weeks minutes I said that sending a copy of the IEP Summary to the parent and a copy to Central Office was an expectation. The Department of Education Regs state that we have to provide parents with a summary of what was discussed at the meeting. If you don't use the Summary Form that we have created, you must provide some sort of document that is handed to the caregiver or emailed after the meeting that includes all of the required information. This information has to accompany the IEP packet when it is sent to me.
There has been some confusion about providing a draft to the parents vs providing a summary after the meeting.
If you provide the parents with a draft IEP, you need to do 1 of 3 things:
1- make no changes to the draft and send it immediately to the SpEd office to send out to the parent- not a good plan as all of our IEPs going out have needed at least one or two small changes
2- Provide the parent with the DRAFT IEP with the discussion that you had during the meeting written directly on the draft- then the written on document is the summary and that gets sent down to SpEd in the packet with the IEP and other documents
3- Provide the parent with a summary (using one of the summary forms) as well as a draft (or instead of a draft) - the summary form must at least include the goal areas and the grid.
Here is the most recent information from DESE about this.
Thanks