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SPED PD
Do Now
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/attention.html GS
Debrief With your elbow partner discuss
how this process was for you, and what challenges you faced.
Discuss what the purpose of this activity might have been.
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Objective Today I will be able to explain key Special
Education concepts (LRE, IEP, 504, SST) so that I can respond to interview and survey questions during DVR.
Today I will be able to identify accommodations, modifications, services, strengths, and areas of need for students with IEPs so that I can locate key information that I will use to support my students.
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Agenda
Disability Simulation & Intro 10 min
The IEP Process20 Min
Logistics20 min
Passport & Mini BSP Scavenger
Hunt 20 Min
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DVRAs mandated in the Modified Consent Decree, the Los Angeles Unified School District conducts the District Validation Review (DVR) to monitor special education programs. A DVR team is scheduled to conduct the DVR at your school during the 2014-2015 school year.
Our tentative date is: September 22, 2014
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What you Need to Know about DVR…….
As part of the review, the DVR team is asking that each school staff member complete a written survey regarding special education. You will receive this at PD the first week of September.
Classrooms will be chosen randomly for the DVR team to observe
Any teacher may be interviewed by the DVR team regarding implementation of services and/or accommodations documented in IEPs and Section 504 Plans
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A Note of the Modified Consent Decree (MCD)
LAUSD monitors our school to ensure we are providing appropriate services (transition plans & BSPs), our suspension rates of SWD, parent participation in IEPs, due dates for IEPs (time lines and procedures), and Least Restrictive Environment.
MCD Data
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accurate*
What is an IEP?What is your role in
the IEP process?
The IEP ProcessWhat is an IEP?
• Each public school child receiving special education and related services must have an Individualized Education Program (IEP).
• The IEP meeting is where the school team and the family create the plan which guides the delivery of special education supports and services for the student with a disability.
• The IEP covers topics such as current performance, annual goals, services and supports, accommodations, participation in state and district-wide tests, needed transition services, and measured progress.
• The IEP is a legal document.
What is your role?
• Teachers are expected to help students access the course content and help students meet their IEP goals
• Teachers are expected to come to IEP meetings when requested (at least one general education teacher will come to each meeting)
• Teachers are expected to provide all accommodations and modifications to all students with IEPs based on their IEP
• Collaborate with the IEP case carrier if adjustments need to be made to the supports
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Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
“To the maximum extent appropriate, children with
disabilities should be educated with children who are not
disabled.”
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“To the maximum extent appropriate, children with disabilities should be educated with children who are not
disabled.”
What is LRE? Where do you think this quote came from? How does this quote frame how we educate our students
with disabilities? GS
Level 5
• Self Contained-Special Education Program (SDP, Alternate curriculum (mod/sev.)
• Transition-Embedded in SPED Curriculum
Level 1
• General Education (RSP)
• Consultation Services
• Transition Services –Pull-Out Direct Instruction
Level 2
• General Education (RSP)
• Consultation Services
• Support inside GE
• Transition Services –Pull-Out Direct Instruction
Level 4
• Special Education Program (SDP mild/mod.)
• Consultation Services
• General Education with collaborative support
• Transition –Embedded in Advisory
Level 3
• General Education (RSP)
• Consultation Services
• Pull-Out Direct Support with AS
• Transition-Embedded in AS/LC Curriculum
Green Dot Special Ed Levels of Support
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Referrals for Special Education
CA Ed Code, Section 56303 A pupil shall be referred for special educational
instruction and services only after the resources of the regular education program have been considered and, where appropriate, utilized.
Student Success Team (SST) Utilize school’s Student Success Team to address regular education program resources
for student
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Referrals for Special Education Continued
Any person may make formal request for special education assessment
Request must be in writing Use Request for Special Education Assessment form Determine if accommodations or modifications were implemented Determine if requestor wishes to postpone request until accommodations or modifications have been implemented and results evaluated Develop and provide Special Education Assessment Plan to parents within 15 days of request, if requestor does not wish to postpone
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What is the role of a SST? What is the role of SST and the referral process for a SPED evaluation within the framework of LRE?
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IEP or 504
Covered by IDEA (Special Education Law)
Students must qualify for Special Education Services through a formal evaluation process Parent involvement is mandated
Provides services & accommodations and modifications
Schools receive federal funding
Covered by Civil Rights Law (Rehabilitation Act)
Process is informal
Parent involvement is not mandated
Provides student with reasonable accommodations and modifications within the general education setting
Schools do not receive federal funding CP
Facts About Our SPED Program
Every year we have averaged about 20% Special Education students (100-110 students on average have IEPs)
We have 7 SPED teachers, 9 para –educators, a full time school psychologist & interns, roving specialists in Speech, OT, and APE.
We offer a full continuum of services to our students. GS
SPED Websitehttp://apwspedteam.weebly.com/
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Learning Center Steps
*Please do not send students who do not have IEPs or a 504s*
Complete the Google Doc
(on SPED website)
Send student with completely
filled out orange pass
LC teacher will send student
back to class at the end of the assignment
with the back side of the orange pass
filled out
AC
AC
Requesting Help Is there a particular student who is exhibiting
academic or behavioral challenges that you are unsure how to intervene with………
HE
Suspecting a Student May Have an IEP or a 504 Plan? Submit the student’s name in the
Google Doc.
AB
Academic Success
All of the SPED teachers will be teaching AS this year during Advisory. In order to ensure that AS is most meaningfully spent, the AS teachers need to have copies of your lesson plans, unit plans, worksheets, assessments etc.
You may provide this information to the team in 1 of 2 ways:
1.) There are green boxes in the copy room that you can place your copies in.
2.) Electronically upload your information into our Drop Box (link will be sent out during the PD). If you are not going to electronically upload then we ask that you just don't respond to the DropBox invitation.
LD
Power School Simulation
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Confidential Folder The SPED team is coming around with
a Red Confidential Folder.
This folder is where you are to keep all Passports, mini BSPs, and all other CONFIDENTIAL student information.
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Passport and Mini-BSP Deep Dive
Sections of the IEP Passport IEP/BSP
Point Person
Areas with processing deficits
Instructional and Testing Accommodations
Break Card ExampleExpectations for the break: Time: The break is only 5 minutes long. She knows that mom is in the loop with the team and she is also keeping track of whether or not she is able to take her breaks responsibly.
Where: B is only allowed to take a break outside the classroom or within the same row as her classroom. Please reinforce that the Break Pass is different from the bathroom pass.
Why: The pass is only to be used when stressful situations arise from the classroom (i.e. starting to become verbally aggressive to her peers, putting her head down when the work is too hard, when defiance is beginning to trigger frustration)
Support Services
Students receive services mostly
during SDP classes (SDP) or during Advisory
(RSP)
Present Levels and Annual Goals
TIP: • When we request information from teachers with regard to student performance
in their respective classes, it’s helpful to review the present levels from the previous IEP to identify areas of strength and need.
• Reviewing the annual goal and providing feedback on student progress based on this is also very helpful for us when we prepare for their next IEP review.
Additional Info and Teacher Sign-Off
When you receive your red folders, we will be asking you to sign a master copy that indicates that you have
received your IEP passports/mini-BSPs and that you are aware that you have a legal obligation to abide by the
students’ IEPs.
Mini-BSPs
What to do
Passports and Mini BSP Scavenger Hunt
1.) What is one academic strength this student exhibits?
2.) What is one academic area of need this student exhibits?
3.) List two of the student’s accommodations.
4.) Does this student have any support services?
5.) What Behavior is the BSP targeting?
6.) If a student exhibits the target behavior again what are the reactive steps all staff are to use every time? GS