SAI
Services
Meetings
Law
Best Practices
100
SAI stands for this
What is Specialized Academic Instruction?
100
This period of extra service is offered to students who may regress during long absences from school and take longer to recoup their skills than peers
What is "Extended School Year (ESY)?" Specific ESY services must be written onto the IEP. Don't just carry the yearly services forward on the ESY grid because we don't have as many service minutes during the summer.
100
Parents, special education provider and Local Education Area Representative
Who are the three required members of the IEP team?
100
The legal tool districts and parents may use to resolve disputes
What is a “Due Process Hearing”?
100
A tool that teams use to help students learn to change their behavior
What is a Behavor Intervention Plan or a Positive Behavior Support Plan?
200
An evidenced based reading system for people with phonological processing challenges that was recently adopted by our department
What is “the Wilson Reading System”?
200
The most restrictive support the District can offer
What is is a 1:1 Instructional Aide?
200
Two hours
What is the recommended maximum time for any special education meeting?
200
The requirement that each exceptional child get an individualized education plan that allows him to progress in the academic curricula as independently as possible
What is a “Free Appropriate Public Education in the Least Restrictive Environment (FAPE in the LRE)”?
200
The minimum ratio of positive to directive comments that teachers should give according to PBS experts
What is 5 to 1?
300
Required information for every service and accommodation on the IEP
What are “start dates, end dates, and frequency”?
300
Any tools the student requires to access the educational curricula
What is is Assistive Technology (AT)? You must discuss AT at every IEP meeting and document that discussion.
300
This document that explains parent rights must be offered at every IEP meeting and given once a year
What is the Notice of Procedural Safeguards?
300
The obligation that school districts have to identify all students with exceptionalities in the district and assess each child in all areas of suspected disability
What is child find?
300
The amount of time we give students to answer questions
What is latency? Please encourage your teachers to allow more wait time for our students to respond.
400
Something we are not required to indicate on the IEP unless the student cannot achieve goals without it
What is specific methodology?
400
The remedy we offer to families when we have not provided the services as agreed on the IEP
What is compensatory education?
400
The number of days we have from when we sign an assessment plan to when we must hold the meeting and offer an IEP
What is 60 days?
400
Within 10 school days after the decision has been made to remove an exceptional student for disciplinary purposes for more than 10 school days
What is when a Manifestation Determination Review must be conducted?
400
Premeetings, sending reports home ahead of time, using an agenda, designating a time keeper
What are ways to make IEP meetings go quicker and more smoothly?
500
A way of teaching so every child can access the curricula
What is differentiated instruction?
500
How we know the type, frequency, and duration of services to provide
What is “the evaluation report drives present levels and goals on the IEP and goals drive services”?
500
30 calendar days
What is What is the number of days we have to conduct an IEP meeting after receiving a written request? You don't have to drop everything and have another meeting.
500
“To meet its substantive obligation under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, a school must offer an ‘individualized education program’ reasonably calculated to enable a child to make progress appropriate in light of the child’s circumstances”
What is the Supreme Court holding in “Endrew F. vs. Douglas County School District” that provides additional guidance about a Free Appropriate Public Education?
500
Listening actively and answering questions
What is the fastest way to get someone to calm down?
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