The Law
What needs to be done if a team member listed on the invitation is absent the day of the PPT?
What is notify the parent ASAP and sign an excusal?
This person is required to be at every IEP meeting to provide expertise on the general education curriculum and how the students' disability may be impacting their access.
Who is the General Education Teacher?
An administrator must ensure that a student's behavior intervention plan is driven by this rather than assumptions.
What is Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) data?
LRE
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
What are ways to make a parent feel welcome in the PPT meeting?
What is...
Walk in with them to the meeting
Allow them to choose seating
Avoid side conversations upon entry
Provide pen and paper for notes
Use their names, avoid calling them “Mom” and “Dad”
Walk them into the meeting so they aren’t entering a room of strangers alone
This federal law mandates that students with disabilities are provided a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE).
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
This team member is the only person who can and must update the next school year field in the meeting or before the IEP is finalized.
Who is the administrator?
For students in kindergarten through grade two, this type of suspension may only be used in rare situations when there is evidence that the student's conduct on school grounds caused or risked serious physical harm to themselves or others and may not exceed five days.
What is an Out-of-School Suspension (OSS)?
TWND
What is Time With Non Disabled Peers?
True or False: PPT meetings are a great time to check your email and get caught up on work.
What is False? The expectation is that you are an active participant, their child is important to them, and if you’re multitasking your giving the message their child is not important to you.
This term refers to the mandate that students with disabilities are educated with nondisabled peers to the maximum extent appropriate.
What is the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
If a student is not making adequate progress on their goals and objectives or has mastered their goals and objectives, what should the team do?
What is convene a PPT meeting to review and revise the IEP?
True or False: If you ask a parent to pick their child up early or keep them home for a day off, this is not considered suspension or change in placement.
What is False? This is considered a forced pickup, and out of school suspension.
BIP
What is a Behavior Intervention Plan?
This meeting practice helps team members stay focused, ensures required topics are covered, and respects everyone's time.
What is following the meeting agenda?
This required document outlines the rights of parents and must be offered/explained at every IEP meeting.
What are Procedural Safeguards?
If you’re proposing services in a certain area, such as OT or counseling, who needs to be at the PPT?
Who is the service provider for the area you are proposing? For example occupational therapist for OT, social worker or school psychologist for counseling.
If a manifestation determination finds the behavior was a result of the disability, the team cannot proceed with this action.
What is a long-term expulsion or change in placement?
AAC
What is Augmentative and Alternative Communication?
If you disagree with a recommendation during a PPT, you should do this rather than argue or dismiss another team member's perspective.
What is respectfully share your concerns and support them with data?
True or false: If a parent has a request and the team is unsure, you can say we’ll figure it out and get back to you.
What is False?
True or False: If a parent makes the request for an independent educational evaluation, It is your responsibility as an administrator to answer the parent in the PPT meeting as to whether an independent educational evaluation will be granted.
What is False?
This request should be submitted in writing to the director, this is the one time you do not need a decisive proposal as a result of the PPT.
Even if a student's behavior is a manifestation of their disability, they can be unilaterally placed in this alternative setting for up to 45 school days for weapons, drugs, or serious bodily injury.
What is an Interim Alternative Educational Setting (IAES)?
FERPA
What is Family Education Rights and Privacy Act?
This is considered a best practice when discussing a student during a PPT to maintain professionalism and family trust.
What is using person-first, respectful, and strengths-based language?