The Scoop

Hello TISD Special Services #IslandInnovators! I am so excited to see all we can do for our students and families during the 2024-2025 School Year! Your dedication, passion, energy and innovation will make Tomball ISD a true Destination for Excellence and our own little slice of Paradise!

The Scoop is a place for you to make sure you are in the know and have all the information you need. You are responsible for the information in the SCOOP. If you need clarification, please reach out to your Student Support Specialist or me.

You all do an amazing job and service for our students, families and staff. You set the stage for communication, service and trust. Keep building that community trust with parents, students and staff and over communicate!

~Keri

Thanks for attending the Empowering Excellence Professional Learning Collaborative on August 7th! We would like your feedback as we continue to innovate and provide you all with a robust & relevant catalog and a premier professional learning experience.

Please use the form here - Fall 2024 Empowering Excellence Professional Learning Collaborative Feedback

Please remember the talk to your campus registrar regarding students who have not shown up to school who are currently students who receive special education services. Use this guidance to help you.

Check your campus students in eStar Frontline for the correct status:

1) Ensure all records in Frontline eStar on your campus are marked correctly for:

• STATUS - Please make sure all students showing on your caseload are marked appropriately. For example: Withdrawn, Homeschool and Private School if those are their current status. Additionally, please make sure all of your students that you have completed transfer events on are marked as Currently Served for their status.

It is very important that we know the students who have special needs within our school district that attend private school or homeschool. Please keep the private school/homeschool list updated throughout the year.

Please share with teachers and parents of students who are DHH. You are welcome to attend as a TISD staff member as well. Please see the English Flyer and the Spanish Flyer for more information and to share with staff and families.

Thanks to Natalie Harvey for sending out these tips if you need to secure print:

These are the steps for setting up Secore print on your copier

To RETRIEVE “Secure Print” from the Copier

1. Select File Retrieve on the printer option you selected (WCE-C-WKRM-01/WCE-C-WKRM-02)
2. Select Main Folder
3. Select the file to print- aligned with your ID#
4. Enter your 5-digit PIN Password and select OK
5. Select the Delete box - not the word

1. This will delete the job from the list as it prints- removing it from the print queue

1. Select Print Now for it to release

1. If you need to make adjustments to print settings such as double-sided, select Choose Print Settings (Right side of screen)

1. When you are done, select Main Folder in the top left

Please see this sheet to help you with common PEIMs errors. Reach out to your student support specialist if you need help.

Special Education Connection through LRP provides great legal and practical documents, articles and resources for our Special Services Staff and Counselors. You may log in to Special Educaiton Connection by following this guidance.

The titled article for this newsletter is a great read on ways to talk with parents about requests that the school based members do not feel are appropriate or would provide FAPE! A great resource for parent communication and ARD committee decisions.

• Monday, September 2 - LABOR DAY, no school on this day.
• Friday, September 13 - Cross Talk at TEC. 8:00 - Noon
• Check HERE for the rest of the year meetings for Special Services

Angelica Diaz-8/7

Julie Gray-8/8

Mario Henao-8/09

Kimberly Keller-8/17

Erika Meza-8/22

Beth Goodrich-8/25

• Lucinda Macia and Pooja Kelm went above and beyond last week to support an ill colleague and to ensure students and families received the reports and services needed within timelines. Thank you both for demonstrating the true #teamtomball spirit!

• Thad Green received a shout out this week... He went above and beyond by running the caseload for Grand Oaks and ensuring students who receive counseling as a related service are listed for Dr. Scott. Thad is a valuable part of our school psych team, as well as our overall special education team and the campuses he serves!

• Kuddos to every Special Services Team Member for putting in 110% this first week of school! Great job working through all the first week kinks and being there for our new staff and families and celebrating those amazing students during their first week! #TeamTomball!!!

Tomball Education Foundation continues to provide grants for TISD staff through an application process to support innovative instruction and high academic achievement. As you plan with your teams before school, please keep in mind the opportunity to be funded for innovative practices. The deadline to apply is Friday, October 18. Last year we were able to provide $125,000 to the TISD staff. Grants can be written as a team or as an individual. If you have questions, please contact us through the Tomball Education Foundation website: www.tomballedfoundation.com/

If you are tweeting anything this school year, do not include identifying information of students nor students that are identified with a "red button". Please use our hashtag: #IslandInnovators our district hashtags: #DestinationParadise, #DestinationExcellence and feel free to tag @gibby1112 and @TStudentSupport

Student Support Personnel by Campus

Our Student Support Personnel are listed by campus on the link above. This will help ensure you know your student support specialist as well as other campus contacts.