The Paperwork Trail
This recurring paperwork ritual requires you to dust off your data sheets and summarize student growth.
What are Progress Reports?
This is Cassie's favorite place to find resources.
What is Tools to Grow?
This 1980 Kool & The Gang anthem is exactly what the whole classroom does when a student masters their targeted IEP goal.
What is "Celebrate" by Kool & The Gang?
Some people cope with everyday chaos by doing yoga or drinking coffee; this person looked at the madness and said, "You know what would fix this? A brand-new puppy."
Who is Cassie?
The deeply frustrating household phenomenon where you have 45 plastic food storage containers and 45 lids, yet not a single one of them matches together.
What is the Tupperware Drawer?
The click-heavy, soul-crushing daily logging process where related service providers must document every single minute of therapy time for district funding!
What is MA (Medical Assistance) Billing?
This go-to assessment tool is a favorite among our team because if a toddler refuses to cooperate during testing, we can just casually cross-examine their parents to get the scoring data we need.
What is the DAYC-2
This standard Taylor Swift track is the exact advice we give ourselves after a major transition meltdown.
What is "Shake It Off"?
If you ever wonder where this person gets the energy to coach hockey, hit the CrossFit gym, and raise her kids, it’s probably fueled by the adrenaline of traveling between multiple school districts every week.
Who is Jamie?
The dangerous financial lie you tell yourself when you tap your phone to pay for a $10 iced coffee at Elephant Joes: "It's fine, it's basically ______."
What is free?
This mandatory state survey is widely considered by ECSE teachers to be a massive waste of precious time, yet we dutifully fill it out at entry and exit just to keep MDE happy.
What is the Child Outcomes Summary (COS)?
You better make sure Julia is around if you want to use this resource.
What is Lesson Pix?
Bill Withers sang this classic, which doubles as the ultimate theme song for co-teaching, working with related services, and collaborating with parents.
What is "Lean on Me"?
This hard-working team member is famous for grinding out her days in ECSE, suddenly jetting off on last-minute vacations.
Who is Julia?
The household appliance you stare at blankly at 8:00 PM, trying to remember if the dishes inside are actually clean or just dirty but rinsed.
What is the dishwasher?
This is the total number of evaluation rows currently logged on the "ECSE Evals" tracker.
What is 40?
While it's our most essential digital tool for drafting IEPs and PWNs, this software is also famous for giving you a minor heart attack if you forget to check a single mandatory box and can't finalize.
What is SpEd Forms?
When the transportation department sends an email at 7:45 AM, you know this classic children's song is about to get a chaotic heavy metal remix.
What is "The Wheels on the Bus"?
Known for running a tight ship and keeping a strict schedule at work and home, she is also our team hero for successfully ignoring her inbox all summer.
Who is Rebekah?
The automotive game of chicken where you spot a glowing dashboard light and decide your best course of action is to simply ignore it for three months and hope it goes away.
What is the Check Engine Light?
When a child receives ECSE services in Minnesota, this must be meticulously tracked and reported to MDE, reflecting the actual hours of service rather than traditional daily attendance.
What is Attendance/Membership?
The Part C team spends a lot of time using this tool; in fact they have posted 3,311 items in this communication tool!
What is SeeSaw?
You spent three weeks coordinating schedules for five therapists, an administrator, and the family—only to have the parent text an hour beforehand asking to reschedule. This 2000 Britney Spears hit perfectly describes having to restart the entire process.
What is "Oops!... I Did It Again"?
Our team would completely sink without her keeping our due process work afloat; luckily, when she needs a break from saving our lives, she can retreat to her cabin on an island.
Who is Kelly?
The dangerous financial black hole where you walk into a store strictly to buy a $3 bottle of hand soap, only to walk out 45 minutes later spending $112 on things you didn't know existed.
What is a Target Run?