The Scoop
Special Services Update - October 10, 2022
Communication, The Scoop & You!
There may be a lot of information in the SCOOP that you are responsible for knowing. We want to limit all the separate group emails, so we condense most of our communication into this newletter for you and for easy reference to go back and find. Please be sure and read each edition of the Scoop carefully and let us know if you have any questions.
Have a great week!
~Keri
Recap of Last Issue:
Be sure and look back if needed for any information on:
- Evaluating Dyslexia in the Full FIE Webinar: Watch Webinar Now
- Appraisals in Strive. You can find the review of the appraisal information for Special Services HERE. Please get with your appraiser if you have any questions. Our organizational chart and appraisers can be found HERE.
You will need to have your goals entered into Strive
Cross Talk October 14 - Location Change
Breakfast will be from 8:00-8:30
Meeting will start at 8:30
See you there!
Notice of Procedural Safeguards Update
Newly Pubished Courses from TEA's Child Find, Evaluation, and ARD Supports Network
Child Find Duty-Everyone’s Responsibility and ARD Committee Manager Training are now available as free self-paced courses on the TEALearn platform. TEA-issued credits are available upon completion. Visit the Child Find, Evaluation, and ARD Supports Network's website to learn more about these topics.
Upcoming Dates- TEA
· September 28 at 12:15 CST (English) and 1:15 CST (Spanish): SPEDTex Special Education Updates webinar with Dr. Justin Porter
· September 15-October 15, 2022: Application window for NEW SLP Master’s Degree Tuition Reimbursement Program for applicants committed to working in small and rural schools.
· October 13 from 2:00-3:00 CST: TEA Special Education Webinar
· October 27 from 2:00-3:00 CST: TEA Special Education Webinar
October is Dyslexia Awareness Month in the United States. Check out TEA's Dyslexia and Related Disorders webpage for resources, guidance, and information or take a course on TEALearn to find out more about dyslexia.
Frontline Help Links and Frontline Records Requests
Frontline Help and Needs
If a staff member needs Frontline support, please use the link below to request support:
Frontline Special Education and Intervention Help Ticket
Frontline Records Request for 504 and Special Education
To request records for students who are coming from a district that uses Frontline, please use this link to request records:
Dyslexia Supplement in the ARD Screens
Please ensure we complete the Dyslexia Supplement as we complete the Annual and Initial ARD meetings. If the student meets eligibility then the entire supplement should be completed.
Dyslexia screening on the supplement should be left blank for all students until further directions.
Fall PEIMS Staff Data DUE SOON!
It’s that time again for 22-23 FALL PEIMS Sped Staff data!
The Sped staff Schedule log is linked HERE. Please make a copy for yourself and save it to send to Sharon Meanor. This log is to report your duty schedule, student minutes served, the campus served, and student count for this school year. HERE is an example to help with how to fill it out.
Who will need to complete this? Sped staff/teacher, Diagnostician, LSSP, SLP, OT, APE, VI, and OT
**Remember this is only instructional minutes: we do not record testing time or evaluation times. Sharon Meanor is needing this by Wednesday, October 26 2022**
October is Physical Therapy Month Thank you Whitnee Drake & Cindy Gunn #Wonderful Support #TISDCelebratesPTMonth - #TISDGameChangers
In celebration of Physical Therapy Month, let’s catch our campus teams in the act of “Safe Handling” - . Many paraprofessional staff and special education teachers participated in “Safe Handling” training during the August District Collaborative Day.
Safe Handling is so very important for our campus teams to keep in the forefront of their minds as it is the little things that we do in a day that prevent the “oh my aching back” or the incidences of work related injuries.
Let’s catch Safe Handling in ACTION!
Use Five Key Actions of Safe Handling for additional information on each safe handling action. To provide evidence of “Catching” an action, tweet a picture or a story of what you observed.
Week of October 10-14
Catch Dress for Success in Action
Points Per Social Media Post: 2
Max Points per Team: 4
Weeks of October 17-28
Catch Good Body Mechanics, Communicate Before, During and After the Lift, or Strengthen the Core in Action
Points per Social Media Post: 2
Max Points per Team: 4
GameChanger Challenges for the Week
Champions of the Month and Holder of the #TISDGameChanger Trophy: Team Titan
Team Titan, please bring the #TisdGameChangers Trophy to the meeting to pass on (or keep) to the winning team for October.
Don't forget the team with the highest points by each Cross Talk will host the #TISDGameChangers trophy for the month and receive prizes! Let's have some fun at work!
Challenges/opportunities for points for this week:
Tweets have been awesome, let's up our game... this week, make your tweets specific to a principal shout out due to October being Principal appreciation month (1 pt each, max 2) OR the PT month challenge (see PT month section for points and rules) due to it being National PT month (2 pt. each, max 4)!
Any presentations following the rules in the previous two SCOOPs given this semester will be given 5 team points.
We are #TISDGameChangers ....
Who Qualifies as a Parent?
Who qualifies as a 'parent'?
The IDEA considers several types of caregivers as possible parents depending on a child's situation. Review the different meanings of the term under the IDEA with this One-Pager.
October 3, 2022
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CASE FILE: 4-hour school week for behavioral reasons impedes student's progress
Case name: Reynolds v. George County Sch. Dist., 122 LRP 39223 (S.D. Miss. 09/28/22).
Ruling: A Mississippi district denied FAPE to a preteen boy with autism and an intellectual disability when it responded to his escalating behavioral problems by reducing his instructional time to just four hours a week. The U.S. District Court, Southern District of Missouri vacated an independent hearing officer's finding that the revised IEP for SY 2017-18 was appropriate.
Click HERE to read the full article.
SPECIAL SERVICES SHOUT OUTS!
Jeanette Guzman - She has agreed to handle so much reporting, record keeping, ect. for our team and ALL of the other duties she has on her shoulders. Thank you for taking on our team duties, Captain!!!
Kim Keller - A big shoutout to Mrs. Keller for supporting the students, staff and our team this year! #BullsEyeTeam
Sara Pennington, Angela Hodge, and Sherry Julio-Thompson... they have managed to simultaneously support my learning curve adjusting to a new district and system, hit the ground running at a fast and furious pace, and make sure we are laughing the whole time... it's been truly impressive and SO appreciated! Shout out to the best Diags and amazing humans.
Jen Durrett and Angela Moore - for always being available for my questions.
Audra Arnold - Thank you soooo much for being my almost daily go to. You are teaching me so much and making me a better diag everyday. I owe all of you big time!
Cindy Gunn and Whitnee Drake - We hope you have a great month! You are apprecited by all of us for all that you do!!!
Olga Champagne - Thank you for volunteering to take on an evaluation for a colleague and being an amazing LSSP.
Amber Naylor - Thank you SO much for presenting at CPES Staff Meeting ! The teachers were taking notes, having ah-ha moments, and loved how you simplified each strategy! You did a great job presenting!
Jen Durrett - Thank you for always being a great leader and supporting the diags. You always go above and beyond and you are very appreciated. Also, you put together a beautifully organized google sheet to organize everything that needs to be done to keep DPES running smoothly. Jen went above and beyond with it to ensure we address their concerns - THANKS JEN!!
Jessica Mueller - Thank you for jumping into the EE team! Even though we have been bombarded with evaluations you have been able to finish them in record time while carrying a campus load.
Shannen Utley - You have been a fantastic addition to the EE team. Thank you for all the work you do with the team and with the student's we test. You go above and beyond and you are appreciated!
Lucinda Maricia- Thank you for all you do with the EE team! You are doing a great job juggling the EE team and a campus and it hasn't gone unnoticed. Thank you!
More Information
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