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July 25, 2013

South Carolina Public Charter School District’s New Special Education Coordinator Training

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New Schools

Welcome and Introductions

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Schools with new special education coordinators Welcome and Introductions

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Robert Compton, Ph.D., Director of Federal ProgramsBeckie Davis, Director of Special ServicesVamshi Rudrapati (Mr. V), Assistant Director of Federal ProgramsZenobia Ealy, Assistant Director of Technology Services

Mariann Carter, Lead Regional Coordinator (Upstate)Vamshi Rudrapati (Mr. V), Regional Coordinator (Pee Dee)

Welcome and Introductions

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• Oh, The Places You'll Go• The South Carolina Public Charter School District• The Role of the Special Education Coordinator• Lesson’s Learned• Just Enough to Get you Started• Things That Might Be New To You

Today’s Agenda

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Oh, The Places You'll Go

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The South Carolina Public Charter School District

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• Organizational Chart• Differences from a traditional district• The District as an authorizer • Monitoring/oversight

– Self-Study– Planned Compliance Reviews

• Compliance Ladder

The South Carolina Public Charter School District

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District Organizational ChartBoard of Trustees

Superintendent

Dir. of Accountab

ility

Dir. of Complianc

e

Dir. of Communic

ations

Dir. of New

School Developm

ent

Dir. of Federal

Programs & School Safety

Dir.

of Special Education

Regional Special Education Coordinators

Asst. Dir.

of Federal Programs

Dir. of Human

Resources

Administrative Assistan

t

Coordinator of Teacher Evaluatio

n

Dir. of Technology Services

Asst. Dir. of

Technology

Services

Director of Finance

Comptroller

Accounting Assistant

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School’s Assigned Regional Coordinator

Robbie Compton(for schools with

Letters of Caution or Notices of

Default)

Beckie Davis(all other schools)

Mr. V(forms/Adobe/

Axcrypt)

Zenobia Ealy

(Excent)

Who Do I Call?

Start Here

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• In a traditional district, there would be: – “District supports”

– Coordinators, curriculum specialists, school psychologists, related service providers (OTs, PTs, nurses, …)

– District-level staff development opportunities– District staff checking behind you– District-wide programs (self-contained class for students with low

incidence disabilities)

Us versus the Traditional District

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The SCPCSD As Authorizer• Evaluates and approves or denies charter

applications• Executes contracts with each of its schools • Monitors the performance and compliance

of its schools • Notifies schools of deficiencies and

violations

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• Supports accountability and student achievement• Protects school autonomy• Holds its schools accountable for their

outcomes• Is not responsible for the success or failure of

its schools –schools are responsible for their own outcomes

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The SCPCSD As LEA• Provides programmatic

assistance/support services in the areas of assessment, curriculum and instruction, federal programs, finance, human resources, public relations, special services, and technology

• Distributes federal and state funds

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The SCPCSD As LEA• Pursuant to SC charter school law, the sponsor of a charter

school is the charter school’s LEA and the charter school is a school within that LEA

• The SCPCSD retains responsibility for special education and must ensure that students enrolled in its charter schools are served in a manner consistent with LEA obligations under applicable federal, state, and local law

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Relationship between Charter School Authorizer and Charter School• Autonomy in exchange for Accountability• Charter Schools have the autonomy to self-

govern; select their own curriculum; hire, train, and dismiss their own staff; and develop and decide how to spend their own budget

• In return, charter schools are expected to be accountable to their authorizers for student achievement, fiscal responsibility and sustainability, charter and legal compliance, and organizational viability

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Charter SchoolsNational Alliance for Public Charter Schools:

“Public Charter schools are always public schools. They never charge tuition, and they accept any student who wants to attend. Charter laws require that students are admitted by a random lottery drawing in cases too many students want to enroll in a single charter school. Charter schools must also meet the state and federal academic requirements that apply to all public schools.”

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Charter Schools• Charter schools are not exempt from federal laws that cover

equal rights, access and discrimination.

• Students attend charter schools by choice of their parents or guardians rather than by assignment by a school district.

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Compliance Monitoring The South Carolina Charter Schools Act requires authorizers to:

• monitor the performance and legal/fiscal compliance of each charter school

• conduct or require oversight activities including conducting appropriate inquiries and investigations only if such activities are consistent with the law and do not unduly inhibit the autonomy granted to charter schools

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Compliance Monitoring • notify the charter school of perceived

problems if the school’s performance or legal compliance appears to be unsatisfactory

• take appropriate corrective actions or exercise sanctions short of revocation including requiring a school to develop a Corrective Action Plan w/in a specified timeframe

• determine whether each school’s charter merits renewal, nonrenewal, or revocation

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SCPCSD Compliance Ladder • SCPCSD created a compliance ladder to

notify schools of performance/compliance issues and to help track compliance

• The compliance ladder is a 3-tier approach with graduated notices/warnings: Caution, Probation, and Revocation

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SCPCSD Compliance Ladder • SCPCSD addresses noncompliance

throughout the calendar year as concerns/deficiencies are identified

• Each tier triggers a specific notice to a school and requires the school to take corrective action

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Letter of Caution• Schools are notified in writing that there is a performance or

compliance deficiency

• Cautions are typically issued after the school has been afforded an opportunity to resolve the deficiency on its own and fails to do so

• Schools are provided a reasonable opportunity to remedy the deficiency through the development of a corrective action plan (CAP)

• Leading causes of cautions: special education violations, lack of special education capacity, failure to submit timely and/or accurate data/reports; test security violations; low academic achievement

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Notice of Default• Applies to schools that fall into one or more of the following

three categories: schools that have been cautioned but have failed to self-correct; schools with subpar academic performance; or schools with systemic issues of noncompliance or a pattern of noncompliance

• A sanction short of revocation- provides a school with an

opportunity to remedy the performance and/or compliance issues that led to probation via the development and implementation of a comprehensive remedial action plan

• Schools on probation must demonstrate improvement and correct any outstanding issues of noncompliance to lift probation

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• So how do we do this?– In addition to the Performance Framework and monitoring schedule, the

Federal Programs Department utilizes:– Self Study consisting of 24 compliance points.

– Completed at the school level AND completed by District staff.– 3 point scale (0 – 2)– Improvement Plan Priorities

– Scheduled reviews built into the yearly calendar:– Transfer IEPs– Child Count Verification

– Parental Complaints– Verification of school submitted data

Monitoring and Oversight

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1. The school has district-approved policies and procedures.2. Special Education and related service staff are in place and are highly qualified, appropriately certified.3. Special education related providers (school psychologist, OT PT, RN) are on staff or on contract are appropriately credentialed.4. The total number of identified students are appropriately proportionate to hired special education staff so that all identified students are able to

receive a FAPE.5. Special education staff, other related service providers, and/or other school staff have engaged in professional development as to special education

and RTI procedures, process and practice.6. School files are kept confidential, locked, up to date, accessible, and organized with appropriate information stored for the required length of time.7. The school maintains an up-to-date, confidential, and accurate database of students with IEPs.8. All required information is marked complete and attached in Excent in a timely manner.9. All IEPs are compliant as demonstrated by a review of 5 IEPs (transfer, annual, initial evaluation, and/or reevaluations).10. All active IEPs are reviewed annually.11. All reevaluations have been conducted within appropriate timelines.12. All active IEPs have documentation of progress monitoring at intervals described in the IEP.13. Students receive services in accordance with their IEPs.14. Evaluations for initial eligibility are comprehensive, are conducted by a multidisciplinary team, and contain evidence of previous research-based

interventions.15. Comparable services meetings occur within the first 5 school days after enrollment and services that are similar or equivalent to those that were

described in the previous IEP are provided.16. Transfer IEP meetings are conducted within 30 calendar days of enrollment.17. The school has a means to track the removal of students for disciplinary reasons and to alert school staff when a student is approaching 10 days OSS.18. All disciplinary removals of students with IEPs were done so in accordance with IDEA requirements and have been appropriately documented in

Incident Management in PowerSchool.19. The school has a means to document the provision of all accommodations and modifications required in IEPs.20. All parents have been notified of their Procedural Safeguards at least annually.21. Notices and other IDEA-required information have been presented to parents in understandable language (written language understandable by the

general public and in the native language of the parent or other mode of communication used by the parent).22. IDEA funds are used solely for district-approved IDEA related activities.23. The school maintains an inventory of all equipment, materials, etc. purchased with special education funds throughout the life of the equipment.24. The school submits timely and accurate data as required by Federal, State, and District reporting.

Self Study Question

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Questions for us?

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Question for you

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The Role of the Special Education Coordinator

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In a traditional district, your responsibilities would be divided among:• School Psychologist• Curriculum Coordinator• LEA rep• Special Education Coordinator/

Director• Guidance Counselor• Data clerk

• And, oh yeah, Special Education Teacher

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• Child Find activities– Referrals– Evaluations– Eligibility Determinations

• Service Provision– Special education services as written in the IEP– Related service providers

• Compliance– All deadlines are met– All IEPs are compliant– All documentation is attached in Excent

• Data Reporting– State and federally required data – PowerSchool– Excent

Sum of the Parts…

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Process for identifying, locating, and evaluating all children with disabilities enrolled in the school

– Referrals from parents or school staff– Coordinating the evaluation process

– Evaluation planning– Gathering additional information within timelines

– Coordinating eligibility determinations– Coordinating IEP development

Child Find

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Service Provision• Ensuring services are

provided as written in the IEPs– Comparable services for

transfers– Progress monitoring– Appropriate type and amount

of services– Communication with parents,

teachers, staff, and students

• Securing related service providers– School Psychologist– OT– PT– Vision teacher– Counseling

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Ensuring that special education services are provided, not only in accordance with the philosophy of your charter, but also in

accordance with state and federal laws and regulations

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• All IEPs are compliant

• All paperwork is complete and attached in Excent

• All deadlines are met

• Sp Ed Police

Compliance

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– Discipline data in Incident Management in PowerSchool– Excent

– Placement History– Attachments– IEPs

– Deadlines met– 60-day timeline– IEPs updated annually– Reevaluations at least every 3 years

Data Reporting

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• Many times you will be working with other district special education directors during the transfer process.

• You’ll be working with other District’s data managers for files.• Other districts will be reading your IEPs.• Please remember, right or wrong, you not only represent your school and

represent the district, but you represent the charter school movement. • Believe it or not, not everyone is pro-charter school.

• Please do not let your actions impact your school, the district, or the other 60+ charter schools.

Be Professional and Respectful

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Lesson’s Learned

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• Strong Sped Coordinator• Compliance Review of last year

– Which led to the changes (Regional Coordinators, self-study, monitoring schedule)

• Challenges of B&M vs Virtual

Lessons Learned

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• Over the past year, we’ve had:– 4 State Complaints

– 2 were withdrawn by parents– 2 were investigated

– 1 found to be in violation which resulted in the school reviewing 100% of their IEPs for compliance. Out of 105 IEPs, 101 were determined to be non-compliant.

– 1 found to be in volition which resulted in the school reviewing 3 files.– 1 request for mediation

Reflection of 2012 - 2013

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• SCDE Finding for non-compliance:– Indicator 11 (93%)

• SCDE Onsite File Audit:– 24 files reviewed with all 24 being found to be out of compliance– A review of ALL IEPs at 2 school with all IEPs found to be out of

compliance

Reflection 2012 - 2013

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Lessons Learned • Hiring a GREAT special education who is unable to “coordinate” the non-

teaching aspects of IDEA:– Evaluations – Maintaining compliance – Dealing with “high-needs” parents– Working with general education teachers– Ensuring service delivery across staff (general ed teachers, other sp ed

teachers, related service providers, …)

These are the “process” things that are typically handled by district staff (school psychologists, coordinators,…) in a traditional district

• True text message received:“I hear you now Robbie. It sounds like I’ve hired someone who is good with the students but is not able to handle the administrative side of things.”

Lesson Learned: Hire someone who can handle the “administrative side” of IDEA.

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Lessons Learned• No one calls me to say “They are providing everything they should on the IEP, but I

just don’t like my teacher.”• The calls include:• “I’m not getting the services written in the IEPs.”• “I’ve been at school for 3 months and we’ve yet to have an IEP meeting.”• “I’ve not once received a progress report.”• “We had our meeting 3 weeks ago and I haven't received a copy of the IEP or PWN.” • “We transferred to the school and my child was receiving OT services, but the

school said we don’t have an OT.”

• Lesson Learned: The IEP is a contract . . . . . Follow it!

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Lessons Learned • Often times the principal’s background isn’t special education so they

defer all special education questions and issues to the “school’s special education coordinator.” Six months into the year, come to find out that the special education coordinator hasn’t taught special education in 30 years and things have changed just a little bit in that time.

• Lesson Learned: The school leaders needs to take an active role in special education, especially when it comes to compliance.

• Lesson Learned: Just because someone has “special education” on his/her teaching certificate doesn’t mean that he/she is qualified to serve as the school’s special education coordinator.

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Lessons Learned • We’ve had quite a few situations where the child came from a self-contained

class (extensive minutes) to one of our schools. In order to keep with the “school’s schedule and philosophy in the charter,” the child’s minutes were automatically lowered from 1,800 minutes per week to 250 minutes.

• The school almost ended up in a due process hearing that would have cost them several thousands of dollars to provide compensatory services to the child. Side note – compensatory services can not be paid for out of your IDEA funds.

• Lesson Learned: Follow the district’s policies and procedures. It will save you lots of time and money.

• Another Lesson: Never make a change to an IEP that you don’t have data to support

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Lessons Learned • Often times the child transfers and the parents check “no” to the question about

their child having an IEP. 3 months into school, the child begins having academic or behavioral problems. At this point (prior to an expulsion), the parents say, “But my child has an IEP.”

• Regardless on what the parent checks on the enrollment form, during the enrollment process, schools must verify from the sending district that the child did or did not have an IEP.

• As a result, the school owed 3 months worth of compensatory services to the child.

• Lesson Learned: Have a process in place that verifies (and document) whether the child does or does not have an IEP, regardless of what the parent checks.

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Lessons Learned• Don’t wait until it is too late to realize that your special education program has hit

rock-bottom and is at the point of no return.

• Take the warnings (both informal and formal) from the District staff very seriously.

• Seek assistance from an outside consultant (who is knowable in SC’s policies & procedures).

• Please understand that we’re doing our job . . . . “authorizers must revoke charters of schools who violate federal and state laws in which they are not exempt.”

• Additionally, we will exercise “sanctions short of revocation” to give the school an opportunity to self-correct.

• While no one wants to call to say they made a mistake, CALL when you’ve made a mistake or are not sure what to do. The worst thing is to let the District discover the systemic non-compliance before you let us know about it.

• Two-way communication is a must!

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Brick & Mortar

-parents expecting the “full continuum” from one

charter school-not having the backing (resources) from a large

EMO

Virtual-Having a comprehensive understanding of the child-Communication between

regular education and special education

-Flexibility with curriculum

Challenges

remaining true to the

charter while

meeting federal

regulations

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Just Enough to Get You Started

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• Policies and Procedures• Procedural Safeguards• Forms (SharePoint)• Excent• 1st 30 day process

– Enrollment– Records– Transfers

Just Enough to Get you Started (without scaring you too much)

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Established Policies and Procedures (sort of)

• We have Policies . . . . Very good policies!

• We lack procedures . . . . . On purpose. You are charter schools and by nature, you want to do things your own way (within the confines of the regulations).

• Well . . . . . .

• Two things we’ve heard:– From the SCDE: Your schools are not able to produce copies of their procedures.– From the outside consultant at struggling schools: Your schools are not able to produce

copies of their procedures.

• We now have policies WITH a space to indicate your procedures in the following areas:– Child Find– Parental Notification– Discipline (tracking)– LEA Designee

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Forms• The district has forms that the schools must use. Between

Excent and our forms, we’ve got you covered.

• The district has a procedural safeguard notice.

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• We use an online program called Excent to manage IEPs and special education data.

• Mandated by the SCDE.• Excent doesn’t talk with other districts, so you’ll need to

obtain previous IEPs (we’ll talk later).• Excent does talk with PowerSchool, so Excent contains every

child who is entered into PowerSchool.• We’ll provide more information about Excent on the 1st.

Excent

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Enrollment: See Guidelines1. Once enrolled, the school may begin gathering the needed information (records

from previous district). The school must verify whether the child had an IEP; this could be as simple as a phone call to the sending school.

2. Special education records need to be requested from the former district’s director of special education (list provided) not from the school.

3. Once the child “sits for the first class” (or right before), without delay (up to 5 days), the IEP team will meet to determine “comparable services.” These services are comparable (similar or equivalent to) those in the “sending IEP”

4. Within 30 days of enrollment, the IEP will meet to either accept (rare), revise, or create a new IEP. All decisions for this IEP MUST be data-driven. So use these 30 days to gather data.

We will go into greater detail about this process on August 1st.

The first 30 days . . . .

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Things That Might Be New To You

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• Confidentiality • Child Find (obligations)

– Public notice

• Funds• Data• IDEA coordination • Related Services

Things That Might Be New To You

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• Each school must have a confidentiality statement and procedures for file access. The statement includes “authorized employees.”

• District’s sample statement

Confidentiality

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District’s Policy: The District’s Child Find notification and procedures are posted on the district’s website (http://sccharter-web.sharepoint.com/Documents/SPED%20Child%20Find%20Notice.docx). Each charter school within the South Carolina Public Charter School District is responsible for implementing the district’s child find procedures. Schools use a variety of methods to publicize their Child Find procedures. These methods include posting on individual school websites, posting in prominent places throughout the school, and notification through school newsletters and student handbooks.

Schools will have to develop their own child find statement (sample).

Child Find

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IDEA Funds• Funding is weighted by school type (B&M vs virtual) and

weighted by disability.• Based on the “last official” child count for returning schools or

5th day count for new schools (informal).• Funds are reimbursed • 14%

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IDEA• Timelines:

– September – SCDE informs District of the allocation– September (shortly after SCDE informs District) - Schools receives

allocation and blank budget form. Schools submit budget request to District (10 days)

– October – District submits IDEA application to the SCDE for approval– January – SCDE approves IDEA application– January (within a few days of SCDE notification) – budgets are loaded – March – school gets one-time amendment opportunity for IDEA funds

(funds 203)

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• See Calendar (district)

• We will provide training for every one of these reports. However, it is ultimately the school’s responsibility to submit timely and accurate data.

Data Requirements

Adobe Acrobat Document

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• Does your school have “related service providers” on standby? This includes speech, OT, PT, school psychologist, and counseling?

• If not, start making contacts now.

• We have lists for school psychologists.

Related Service Providers

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• As you can see, making the jump from classroom teacher to special education coordinator is not an easy one.

• We look to you for “school wide” coordination.

• This includes:– Your teachers and staff (compliance)– Your related service providers (services/compliance) – Your parents

• This responsibility is tremendous.

IDEA Coordination

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You’re Not Alone

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• Resources• RR• Mentors• Our Time Here

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• We have plenty of resources for you:– Any previous training, PPT, handout– Other people’s training materials– Specifics about Excent/data reporting

– http://sccharter-web.sharepoint.com/Pages/IDEAResources.aspx– Many “special education” books and resource guides

(just ask)– OSEP, OCR, and Court rulings– Years and years of special education experience

Resources

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• Each school will be assigned a regional coordinator. This person is the school’s first point of contact.

• The regional coordinator works specifically with the school to provide targeted technical assistance.

• The regional coordinator works with the school to develop individualized improvement plans.

Regional Coordinators

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• Each new special education coordinator will be assigned a mentor. The mentor is an experienced special education coordinator.

• These mentors will be trained by a special education mentor facilitator.

Mentors

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• As your authorizer, and because ultimately it’s the District that will be held responsible for your special education programs, we want to see you succeed.

• Over the past three years, we’ve seen schools succeed, struggle, and fail.

• We believe that our improvements for this year will help you be successful by assisting the school in identifying strengths and weaknesses early on, allowing enough time to make corrections before it’s too late.

You have us

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Questions?

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Where Do I Start?

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• We’ll see you again on August 1st (same time/location)

• Review the District Policies and Forms and come with questions.

• Begin thinking about your school’s service delivery.

• Start working with your school secretary on determining which students have IEPs and begin requesting records (see this list).

Where Do I Start?

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Questions?


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