Administrator Updates: Special Education 2017 by Christie Flayhart https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates Questions regarding Special Education: Administrative Updates 2017 (Parking Lot) en-us 2017-06-13 15:09:53 UTC 2017-07-25 13:04:58 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Shakinghands.png New Teachers https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/176976616 Do new special education teachers get training on the expectations for maintaining folders?  ]]> 2017-06-20 12:39:32 UTC https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/176976616 Medical Assistance https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/176979010 Our STAR schools could really use help with an easier or more streamlined process. Our SPED teachers continue to tell us that they struggle keeping up with this along with their other responsibilities. Thank you for thoughts and we are happy to spend time helping with solution or spending funds on something to help our staff. 

]]> 2017-06-20 12:57:28 UTC https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/176979010 https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/176979585 Related Service Logs 
Whose monitors OT and PT related service logs? What does this practice look like? ]]> 2017-06-20 13:02:56 UTC https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/176979585 For the 5 day notice, should testing be sent home for parent review 5 days before the meeting as well? Posing this question due to issues I have had with staff waiting until the IEP meeting to share the testing. https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/176981330 2017-06-20 13:16:07 UTC https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/176981330 are new teachers taught time management so they can balance compliance and instruction? https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/176983779 2017-06-20 13:31:17 UTC https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/176983779 Any suggestions when a PK-2nd grade student is highly unsafe and we cannot suspend? https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/176990355 2017-06-20 14:19:07 UTC https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/176990355 Please come out and meet with our general education teachers re: training on how to prepare and present during IEP meetings. https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/176990845 2017-06-20 14:22:22 UTC https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/176990845 Staffing https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/177546703 What is going to be done to help make the caseload numbers be correct in the staffing process this year? Last year, any IEP that was open (even legitimately) was not counted. How can we prevent this problem for SY18?]]> 2017-06-27 12:17:51 UTC https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/177546703 Closing of IEPs https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/177546986 Was the data for determining if IEPs were closed after annual meetings the same document that was sent out for us to sign? If so, then we need to correct the report to show annual dates, not the latest IEP changes. When we have progress meetings or other important meetings, this date appears on the form, not the annual. ]]> 2017-06-27 12:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/177546986 email reminder to close IEPs https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/178391194 Is it possible to e-mail department chairs letting them know, "I am pulling data for staffing on [date].  Make sure all your IEPs are closed on that day."   Even though our case managers will close those IEPs quickly, depending on the day of an IEP meeting, it's very likely that a few IEPs are open legitimately.]]> 2017-07-10 13:14:07 UTC https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/178391194 Prior Written Notice janine_smith https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/178391692 Should we no longer project the notes and Prior Written Notice on a screen for IEP members to view during a meeting? If it is projected does this constitute as the start of the 48 hour notice?]]> 2017-07-10 13:21:03 UTC https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/178391692 Administrator Audit https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/178954461 Can we please get an abbreviated version of the Blue Folder Audit that Admin can use to check for red flags and most important information. The 3 page version is too much for this purpose.]]> 2017-07-18 12:44:53 UTC https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/178954461 Partial Staff https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/178954608 Can we work on consolidating staff? We have 2 partial SLPs, one that is only with us .2 This is difficult to utilize. If our .6 and .2 were combined it would be much more useful.]]> 2017-07-18 12:46:45 UTC https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/178954608 Amazing IEP Teams https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/178954759 I have worked at three schools with amazing SPED staff and have worked wtih general education staff to understand co-teaching.  
At AL/IL  we need schools whose data is well reflected or has a good process to share ideas to manage all of the difficulties that are being shared on this page.]]> 2017-07-18 12:48:46 UTC https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/178954759 Progress reporting https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/178955500 Are there any good processes in place to support special ed. teachers completing these progress reports? Any good data collection forms? Our teachers have felt that they are doing the special ed. teacher's work by providing the data. How are other special ed. teachers collecting it?]]> 2017-07-18 12:58:39 UTC https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/178955500 Suspension https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/178956204 This states that there are exceptions, is FCPS following these or is it a hard line of no suspension in when students being unsafe.
http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/fnotes/bil_0001/sb0651.pdf]]> 2017-07-18 13:07:42 UTC https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/178956204 Internal Monitoring https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/178958282
A shorter form for admin
Differentiated for elementary/secondary

]]> 2017-07-18 13:35:35 UTC https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/178958282 Exemplar Blue https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/178958340 Is it possible to have CO create an exemplar blue so all special ed. teachers, program assistants, and administrators understand what the blue is supposed to look like?

]]> 2017-07-18 13:36:23 UTC https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/178958340 SPED service logs https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/178959239 How can we make the accountability more structured for our SPED teachers? Related service providers are required to keep logs. Why not SPED teachers? There is a disconnect on the accountability. ]]> 2017-07-18 13:49:30 UTC https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/178959239 restraint https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/178959891 with the new parent consent requirement, are we able to restrain a child when school starts if it is on his BIP or do we need to hold a meeting day one to get consent?  

]]> 2017-07-18 13:57:46 UTC https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/178959891 SPED topics https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/179406510 Is it still true that once a student begins the SPED process, they are protected under IDEA in regards to suspension? Is it possible to flag students somehow in eSchool when they have entered the process?]]> 2017-07-25 13:03:46 UTC https://padlet.com/FlayhartC/SPEDAdminUpdates/wish/179406510