Special Services
October week of 9/28/2015
Binders/PortFolio
When you're in buildings, ask to see data binders. We want to spot check these for quality progress monitoring. We need to be looking for documented progress on IEP goals that align to the criteria on goals. We developed a brief checklist for you to use as you spot check binders. If you see a few that look exceptionally good, let us know. It would be nice to recognize these teachers.
Please see the attached documentation checklist to use for your spot checks. Feel free to modify if you'd like.
Planning Form Signatures
I spoke to Jean and Sherri about which signatures we should expect to see on the ETR planning form. We decided that for an Initial Evaluation, we will expect to see all team members BUT for a re-evaluation, only School Psychologist and Parent need to sign. Signatures: Document who participated in the planning meeting.
This is what the ANNOTATIONS SAYS ABOUT SIGNATURES:One way to do this is to have each team member who attends the planning meeting sign and date the form. The titles under the signature lines on the form may be revised to reflect the titles of the team members who participate in the planning meeting and who sign the form. The date is the date that the planning meeting was held. If the team did not convene a meeting to fill out and sign the form, there must be documentation on file showing that all members, including the parent(s), provided input into the planning process.
***The state planning form says it's a required form!
RLAC
I'm working with the rep from RLAC, (Orton Based Program) on a professional development opportunity for a total of 22 Intervention Specialists, one from each of the 22 buildings. The training would occur November 9th-13th and special services would be d be covering sub cost. This would be year one of a 3 year plan to train staff. It's a 5 day training and all materials are included in the cost. If you have a minute, check out the website. Give some thought as to who we would want to recommend from each building to be trained. Andrea and I will need to share this with administrators as well as Jenni Logan. I emailed you the samples that the rep sent to me.
Out of the Office
Lynda will be out of the office on Wednesday and Thursday attending the Special Education Leadership Conference in Columbus.
Andrea will be out of the office Wed-Friday. We can be reached on our cells.
Shout Outs:
Oct 12th is around the corner...FALL BREAK!
Stay Strong, it's still September and students continue to work through this transition period of a new school year! We might want to remind staff of this. Keep asking the tough question...what have you put in place to support the student?
* Would you like to pitch in for a water dispenser? I would be happy to bring in the water from our Ice Mountain delivery. We need to stay healthy and drink, drink, drink. Let Kathy know if you're interested.
* Thank you all for the great work you do. We have the best department!
* Please remember to fill our the: Documentation of Work Toward Priority Goals for our upcoming 1:1 meetings. We will schedule these for the week October 5th.
RPM Training
October 13th and 14th
Don't forget about the RPM training this coming month. The morning of the 13th, will be an overview of RPM held at CO beginning at 8:30. It will last approximately 2 hours where we will SKYPE the presentation so Forest Hills District can view. I've connected Scott with their tech guy. The afternoon of the 13th, we will have the trainer work with either Timmy or a student from Creekside. The student at Creekside has not been introduced to this model so we'll have the opportunity to see it from the start. I reached out to all parents:) Sarah M, please check in with Scott so he is prepared for this.
On the 14th, we will continue to have the trainer model the method with students followed by coaching along side our staff while they teach. Please remind MD and SCC teachers to get subs for the 14th. Related Service Staff members who work in the MD and SCC classroom are also invited to attend.