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Keeping Connected Staff Meeting

Exceptional Education. Keeping Connected Staff Meeting. Teaching Staff August 10, 2007. AGENDA. Welcome Back Rick Wamer “Got Talk?” The Exceptional Education Department Medicaid Your School Based Ex. Ed. Team Arizona Professional Teaching Standards TIENET Announcements

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Keeping Connected Staff Meeting

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  1. Exceptional Education Keeping ConnectedStaff Meeting Teaching Staff August 10, 2007

  2. AGENDA • Welcome Back • Rick Wamer “Got Talk?” • The Exceptional Education Department • Medicaid • Your School Based Ex. Ed. Team • Arizona Professional Teaching Standards • TIENET Announcements • Navigating the Ex. Ed. Website • Myth Busters • Door Prizes • The Simple Truths of Service

  3. Objectives • Participants will have an increased understanding of the Exceptional Education department, its vision mission and organizational structure • Participants will have increased knowledge of resources to begin their work with students with disabilities.

  4. Guiding Principles for How We Learn Together • Take time to meet and share with new colleagues. • Be open to divergent perspectives and other participants’ points of view. • Share in the responsibility for the success of today’s work. • Limit side conversations during the direct instruction portions of the day. • Silence your cell phone or beeper. From the Arizona Foundation for Resource Education

  5. Keeping Connected

  6. Vision • The Exceptional Education Department shares the vision of Tucson Unified School District as a professional learning community that responds to the individual needs of students within a diverse population of TUSD students

  7. Vision • We strive to ensure that our teachers and support staff will be prepared to implement research-based practices while recognizing the inherent strengths of students and their families and communities with regard to individual differences in language, culture and ability.

  8. Vision • We are committed to preparing students for a multitude of roles within the local community and global economy

  9. Introductions Lorraine St. Germain, Executive Director, Exceptional Education Carol Trunnel Assistant Director Leadership Team 2 Terri Polan Assistant Director Leadership Team 1 Scott Hagerman Admin. Support Leadership Team 3 Darlene Sithole Assistant Director Leadership Team 4 Brenda Hanna Assistant Director Leadership Team 5

  10. Introductions • Program Coordinators - Schools • Maura Ingle, Leadership Teams 1 & 2 • Tari Tenace, Leadership Teams 3 & 4 • Program Coordinators – Special Projects • Cathy Taylor, Technology & Assessment • Paul Ohm, Preschool Program • Dan Perino, Transition Programs • To Be Announced, Medicaid Coordinator

  11. Introductions • Itinerant Leads • Kate Mader, Behavior/Integration Team • Vicki Dawson, Social Workers • Betsy Lindsey, OT, PT, APE • James McClelland, Psychologists • Lynn Rawls, HI/VI Teachers • Lori Taniguchi, Speech/Lang. Pathologists • Kathryn Martin, Direct Link

  12. Introductions • Special Teams • Luanna Shibuya, Multicultural Consultation Team (MCT), • Kacey Chandler, Autism • Mary Neale, Professional Development, • TBA, Assistive Technology • TBA, Ombudsperson • Penni Natvig, Child Find • Kent Knight, Sign Language Interpreters

  13. Celebrating Our Exceptional Education Support Staff • Lynda Lane, Executive Assistant • Ben Martinez, Budget Technician • Jeannie Martinez, Administrative Assistant • JoAnn Corbett, Staff Assistant • Carmen Quintero, Administrative Assistant Central Office

  14. Gail Steinbach Shawna Gerlach Marie Matthews Pam Diebold Lori Dupont Yolanda Federico Sandy Marschinke Emme Merino Kerri Moreno Maria Ramirez Betsey Stockton Bibi Najera, Records Celebrating Our Exceptional Education Support Staff Exceptional Education Compliance Technicians Rosemont Service Center

  15. Gwen Miller Catalina/Howenstine Norma Guerreo Cholla Deborah Gary Palo Verde Ericka Escalante Tucson Carol Giorgi-Allread Sabino Diane Zawacki Santa Rita Monica Majalca Sahuaro Claudia Rincon Celebrating Our Exceptional Education Support Staff Exceptional Education Compliance Technicians High Schools

  16. Celebrating Our Exceptional Education Support Staff • Shelley Sykora, Administrative Assistant • Marla Sweeney, Administrative Assistant Ajo Service Center Technology (A&R) • Reina Robles, Technology/Data Support Specialist • Lindy Jones,Technology/Data Support Specialist • Matt Olson,Technology/TIENET System Administrator

  17. Celebrating Our Exceptional Education Support Staff • Gloria Gonzales, Medicaid Admin. Assistant • Judy Quezada, Medicaid Admin. Assistant • Danna Sandrock, Preschool Admin. Assistant • Joe Villa, Instructional Staff Dev. Specialist Rosemont Service Center

  18. Medicaid Direct Service Claiming (DSC) and Medicaid Administrative Claiming (MAC)

  19. How to Utilize your Site – Based Team Effectively

  20. Our Team? Absolutely! • Your site-based team is replete with exceptional knowledge, talents and skills. • Tapping into other’s as well as our own strengths to help support others, helps us maintain a positive attitude toward what we do and provides for a range of interesting opportunities within our own work experience. • Before looking to resources outside of your school, consider what your site-based team can offer:

  21. Site-Based Team ResourcesExamples • “Curb Side" Supervision/Consultation • Paperwork/TIENET • Mental Health Issues • Knowledge of Special Populations • FBA /Behavior Plans • Classroom Management • Teaching Tips

  22. Arizona Professional Teaching Standards

  23. STANDARDS • Something established for use as a rule or basis of comparison in measuring or judging capacity, quantity, content, extent, values, & quality • A level of excellence, attainment, regarded as a measure of adequacy Webster’s TR-08

  24. Why Are Standards Important? Three principle reasons: • Standards serve to clarify. • Standards serve to raise expectations. • Standards provide a common set of expectations. McREL, online, 2001

  25. Arizona’s Professional Teacher Standards Although the TUSD teacher evaluation instrument does not use these specific professional standards per se, they are valuable, useful and widely used in the teaching field.

  26. Professional Teaching Standards Standard 1: Instructional Design Standard 2: Learning Climate Standard 3: Instructional implementation and management Standard 4: Assessment and Communication Standard 5: Collaboration with colleagues, parents, the community and other agencies

  27. Professional Teaching Standards • Standard 6: Self - review and evaluation • Standard 7: General Academic Knowledge • Standard 8: Planning instruction, learning environment and student assessment • Standard 9: Individual Education Programs

  28. Standard Nine In collaboration with other professionals and parents, the special education teacher participates in the design, implementation, and assessment of individualized education programs

  29. Measures of Performance • Demonstrates knowledge of disabilities and their educational implications • Demonstrates knowledge of state and federal education laws, rules, and regulations • Demonstrates knowledge of the ability to use a variety of assistive devices that support student learning

  30. Measures of Performance • Applies specialized diagnostic and assessment procedures to assist in determining special education eligibility for all areas of suspected disability • Assists in the design and implementation of individualized adaptations, and individual behavior management techniques

  31. Measures of Performance • Utilizes paraeducators and paratherapists effectively through training and supervision

  32. How We Teach Makes A Difference!

  33. BEST PRACTICE • Used to describe solid, reputable, state-of-the-art work in a field. If a practitioner follows best practice standards, s/he is aware of current research and consistently offers clients the full benefits of the latest knowledge, technology, and procedures. Zemelman, Daniels, & Hyde, 1998 TR-10

  34. TIENET ANNOUNCEMENTS

  35. TIENET • New Teacher Training 1010 E Tenth Basement Lab August 15th Part I 1:30 – 3:30 August 22nd Part II 1:30 – 3:30 E-mail Carmen Quintero to Register carmen.quintero@tusd1.org

  36. TIENET Reminders • Please do not share passwords • Step by Step Directions on the Web http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/exced/EEMS/eems_StepBySteps.htm • New Enhancements listed at this Website: http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/exced/EEMS/eems_main.htm

  37. TIENET New Log In You do not need a “u” before your user ID

  38. TIENET New Log In Use your TUSD user name

  39. TIENET New Log In Use your TUSD password

  40. TIENET New Log In Select “INST” for instructional network

  41. TIENET Location Changes • TUSD People Soft will not update assignments in TIENET until late August. • Teachers who have changed sites will not have access to their students until their location is changed in TIENET. • This can be done by e-mailing your Exceptional Education Compliance Technician (Rosemont 232-8300)

  42. TIENET • TIENET IEP’s must be finalized by the person responsible for the IEP document (“Case Manager”) • Parents must be sent a copy of the finalized IEP within 5 days of the meeting.

  43. Exceptional Education Website

  44. Myth Busters

  45. Myth:All IEPs must be placed in the student’s cum file MythBuster: Only the current IEP is placed in the cum file, the expired IEP is removed and shredded.

  46. Myth: When parents request a one-on-one teacher assistant, the team generally agrees and puts it on the IEP. • MythBuster: This is a team decision, the parent is an important member of the team, but they are not the sole decision-maker. The team must collect data prior to consideration of additional adult support. Please review the new procedures & guidelines for this determination on the Exceptional Education website in the Procedures Manual.

  47. Myth: Service is suspended while special education teachers and related service providers are conducting DIBELS activities. • MythBuster: IEP services are never suspended when school is in session. Special Education Staff may assist with DIBELS, but they must still provide services to all students according to the IEP.

  48. Myth:Resource teachers are entitled to work one full day per week on their paperwork. • MythBuster: IEP services are based on student need and not for staff convenience. Staff should be providing services to students each day they are in the school.

  49. Myth: Accommodations that are not provided during instructional time can be provided for students on exams and other assessments. • MythBuster: Accommodations must be provided more often than not during instructional time and documented on the IEP in order to use these accommodations for assessments

  50. Myth: A manifestation determination must be held if the student is suspended for a cumulative or consecutive total of 6 days. • MythBuster: On the 10th cumulative or consecutive day of suspension in a school year, the process for manifestation determination must be followed.

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