504s
While IEPs are governed by IDEA, 504 plans are governed by this civil rights law.
What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
A formal plan developed by a school to provide accommodations for a student with a disability, so they have equal access to education.
Based on Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
What is a 504 plan?
Speech and Language Therapist and 504 Coordinator
Who is Tonia Castellanos?
True or False: A teacher can unilaterally decide to stop providing a student's accommodation if they feel the student no longer needs it.
What is False? (Changes can only be made by the IEP/504 team)
If a teacher notices a student struggling despite interventions, they should initiate this formal team process before a full evaluation.
What is the MTSS/RTI referral process?
True or False: I completed the 504 plan checklist and/or provided written input, therefore I do not need to attend the 504 meeting.
False, if you are scheduled for a 504 plan meeting, you must attend. A meeting cannot be held without a teacher present.
Under IDEA, school districts have this ongoing duty to locate, identify, and evaluate all children with suspected disabilities.
What is Child Find?
Support Facilitators
Who are Alexandra Valiente, Claudia Jones, and Nicole Garcia
Speech therapy, language therapy, counseling, occupational therapy, and physical therapy are classified under this specific term in an IEP.
What are Related Services? These services are legally required if included on an IEP. They may be pulled from study hall or electives to receive these services.
True or False: General education teachers are legally required members of the IEP team and must attend IEP meetings or provide input prior to the meeting.
What is True?
Possible diagnoses in a medical 504 plan.
What are diabetes, asthma, epilepsy, severe allergies, Crohn's disease, migraines, sickle cell disease. Accommodations focus on health and physical access.
Requires a medical diagnosis from a physician.
These additions to students' plans can change annually in an IEP or 504 based on student data.
What are accommodations?
ESE Specialist, Gifted LEA, and RTI/MTSS Coodinator
Who is Jennifer Martinez?
When writing progress reports on IEP goals or providing input for an IEP meeting, teachers must back up their statements with this objective asset, rather than using subjective opinions.
What is data?
This is the first thing a teacher should do at the start of a new school year regarding students with specialized plans and all teachers are required to do this quarterly this school year.
What is read their IEPs, EPs and 504 plans?
This must be provided to support the need for a 504 plan.
What is data? Teacher/school data must be considered in addition to a parent request and/or a doctor's note to consider eligibility for a 504.
This is the primary difference between a 504 Plan and an IEP regarding the provision of specialized instruction.
What is that an IEP provides specialized instruction, services, and accommodations, while a 504 plan only provides accommodations?
Nancy Garcia-Owchariw, Jillian Grant, Beverly McKelligett, Mimose Michel, Judith Riley, and Joseph Embert
Who are our paraprofessionals and our behavior tech. They support our ESE students in the ESE classrooms and in the general education classrooms. They can assist teachers, pull small groups, provide accommodations, collect data, etc.
This foundational section of the IEP describes the student's current academic and functional performance, driving all goal creation.
What is the PLAAFP (Present Levels of Academic and Functional Performance)?
Complete the 504 input form (including elective and personalization teachers) providing subjective and objective data, including anecdotes, observations, work samples, test scores and test history (i.e., time spent on tests).
What is a teacher's responsibility in creating a 504 plan?
Possible diagnoses for a mental health 504 plan?
What are ADHD, anxiety, depression, PTSD, OCD, bipolar disorder. Accommodations focus on learning, concentration, emotional regulation, and school participation.
Does NOT require a medical diagnosis from a physician.
DOES require teacher/staff observations, review of grades and test history, additional data to support the need.
This specific legal protection prevents teachers or staff from sharing a student's IEP or 504 status with unauthorized individuals or other students.
What is FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)?
Assistant Principal over ESE, Gifted, 504s, and RTI.
Mrs. Polatos-Quintero
This must be done continuously by general education teachers to prove that accommodations are actively being provided.
What is monitoring and sharing data on the usage of the accommodations with ESE teachers/support facilitators?
If a teacher fails to provide a legally mandated accommodation listed in an IEP or 504, they risk this type of personal legal consequence.
What is personal liability / a civil rights violation lawsuit?