What Staff?
This group of administrators holds primary responsibility for hiring special education teachers
Who are principals
This general education document must be closely aligned with a student's Individual Transition Plan (ITP)
What is a High School and Beyond Plan?
Students may now retain this eligibility category until the age of 9.
What is developmental disabilities
This administrator will take over the principalship of the Secondary Transition Program on the Parkway Campus
Who is Wendy McCulloch?
Early in the school year, these staff members should provide you their schedule, including all contracted breaks and lunches.
Special Educators
This group of necessary staff members is currently only about 60% staffed
What is school psychologists
This procedural error cost the district over $70,000 in lost revenue last year
What is late IEPs and Evaluations
Name three special education documents that must be translated for multi-lingual parents at their request.
What are IEPs, evaluations, behavior plans, manifestation determination forms, IEP meeting invitations, IEP progress reports . . . .
When I have a question regarding the evaluation or part time enrollment of private school students who may have or need an IEP, this is the person I will call
Who is Jenn Zadow
This building leader (or a designee) is required to attend every IEP meeting, regardless of whether special education TOSAs or present
Who is the building principal?
Site administrators become responsible for evaluating ESAs (psychs, SLPs, OTs, etc) at this point
What is, when they are assigned to a building more than 50% of the time
The district received $1.6M last year for this grant, based on review of IEPs
What is Safety Net?
These two types of restraints are no longer allowable in a school setting
What are floor holds and wall holds
This individual will be supporting your behavior techs, and may be brought in to help design interventions for students with challenging behaviors
Principals will determine which staff members must have this de-escalation training
What is Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI)?
These three types of classified staff members are evaluated by the special education department
Who are interpreters, Braillists, and behavior technicians?
This document, intended to be used to facilitate accommodations in college or the workplace, is required to be provided to exiting seniors prior to their last day of school
What is the Summary of Performance?
This method of determining eligibility for specific learning disabilities will be phased out within three years
What is the discrepancy model
These staff members will provide mentorship and technical support to new and struggling teachers
Who are the special education TOSAs, or who are Jenn Stewart, Will Kahn and Cheri Peach?
Name at least two things site administrators can do to assure paraeducators are used well to support students' IEP goals
What are: Provide elementary resource teachers one person for their 5.25 hours, assist secondary teachers to see their paras as a team to be efficiently deployed, require teachers to provide a schedule of how, when and where their paras are assigned and whom they will support, make sure para breaks and lunch are scheduled around student and teacher needs (and not all break at once),
This group of staff members can bill the special education department for attending IEP meetings
Who are general educators who attend more than 8 meetings (outside the school day) per year (or more than two for one student).
This document is required to be completed each year by it's due date, regardless of whether a student is in the midst of an evaluation
What is the IEP
This form must now be available on our district website
What is a referral form?
These individuals may be helpful in providing IEP-specific supports to students with IEPs in general education classes
Who are paraeducators?
This phrase captures Kent's vision regarding the dissemination of all information and initiatives
What is, "everything goes through principals"?