IEP 101
This document outlines a student's individualized educational program, including goals, services, accommodations, and supports.
What is an IEP?
Your elementary director of student support services
Who is Krista George?
These change HOW a student accesses or demonstrates learning without changing the learning expectation itself.
What are accommodations?
This means students with disabilities have access to learning opportunities alongside their nondisabled peers when appropriate.
What is inclusion?
Conducts evaluations for new referrals and can also serve as the CSE chairperson?
Who is the school Psychologist?
District Wide - Christine Berry
HH- Jillian Kolis
SH - Katie Attea
LV- Jessica Stachiewicz and Tara Agnello
CCE- Tara Agnello and Erin Ostrum
MS- Sarah Parrish and Hailey Feibel
HS - Miles Cassatta, and Kristen DeCeilio
This section describes how a student's disability affects their involvement and progress in the general education curriculum.
What are the PLEPs (Present Levels of Educational Performance)?
Your secondary director of student support services?
Who is MaryJo Dunkle?
This changes WHAT a student is expected to learn or demonstrate.
What is a modification?
In an integrated co-teaching classroom, these two groups of professionals share responsibility for instruction.
Who are the general education and special education teachers?
This person provides focused support in the areas of social - emotional and mental health needs, and are uniquely trained to integrate the schools, community, and family context into intervention and resource eferals.
Who is a Social Worker?
K-12 - Karissa Preister
SH & MS- Nicolette Bekric
MS- Natalie Lemanski
HS- Marissa Flynn & Lindsay Prout
These are measurable statements describing what a student is expected to learn or accomplish during the year.
What are annual goals?
This principle means students with disabilities should be educated with students without disabilities to the maximum extent appropriate.
What is LRE? Least restrictive environment
True or False: Giving a student extra time when their IEP specifies extended time is a favor rather than a legal responsibility.
What is False?
This person can be utilized to support special education students in general education settings.
Who is a paraprofessional?
Focuses on academic scheduling, career development, and social emotional development.
Who is a School Counselor?
HH - Matt Pugh
SH- Hannah Jerozal
LV- Cara Haak
CCE- Lindsay Newman
MS- Dan Fox, Christine Tudor, Kara Elvin
HS- Nick Rizzo, Andrew Steger, Christine Shafer, Genevieve Fuller, Trey Gardner
A teacher notices that a student's current IEP accommodation isn't working well. The teacher should first do this rather than simply stop providing it.
What is communicate with the case manager/special education/PPS team?
This process should be done before any referral to special education is made.
What is MTSS?
Extended time, preferential seating, directions read/repeated, and use of a calculator are examples of these.
What are accommodations?
A student receives special education services in a general education classroom for part of the day. This is an example of what concept?
What is LRE?
Provides support to students in the classroom, can track data, work in small groups, support transitions, etc.
Who is a paraprofessional (aide)?
True or False: A teacher can decide that an accommodation listed on an IEP is no longer necessary and stop providing it.
What is False? The IEP must be implemented as written unless the appropriate team makes a change.
This individual should be used as a resource for interventions, data collection, and prompting.
Who is a classroom aide or paraprofessional.
A student has “directions repeated and clarified” listed on their IEP. The teacher gives the student the assignment without explaining the directions because “everyone else understood them.” What went wrong?
What is failure to implement an IEP accommodation?
A student is struggling in a general education class. The immediate assumption should NOT be that the student needs a more restrictive placement. Instead, the team should first consider these.
What are supports, accommodations, instructional strategies, interventions, and other ways to increase access and success?
Can provide related services such as Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Speech etc.
Who is a related service provider?
OT/PT/Speech/TOD/Vision