Special Education Report

Date:  Oct. 29, 2025

To:  RSU #74 Board of Directors

From:  Tammy Wyman, Special Education Director

Re:  Board Report for Oct. 2025

Again, I want to begin my report with expressing my appreciation for my staff and all that they do for students.  They are working daily to deliver instruction, support students, and provide social and emotional learning instruction.  In particular this month I would like to express my appreciation to the Garret Schenck teacher and support staff who have been willing to support building a program for a student at Solon Elementary.  The time and energy they have put into training, answering questions, modeling and supporting their colleagues is commendable.

We currently have one hundred thirty five identified students. In last month's report, I stated that we had sixteen new students this year.  Ten of those students moved into the district, five were identified kindergarten students and one student is here on a superintendents agreement.  We currently have nine students in the referral process.  We are expecting a new identified student  that has moved in the district to start next week as well.  We have also been working as a team to redistribute case management loads across the district in an effort to relieve the high case management levels at the middle and high school.

We currently have a position for a middle school special education teacher and one educational technician position open.  We have begun to schedule monthly staff meetings to share strategies, support educational technicians and improve team communication.  I continue to work at learning and assessing our staffing, instructional and student needs so that we can implement supports for staff and students.

We continue to work at the state audit and training for paperwork completion.  Again this will be an ongoing process throughout the school year.  Our current paperwork completion is overall compliant we are implementing new state requirements for this audit cycle.

I look forward to working with students and my staff as the year progresses.

Respectfully Submitted,

Tammy Wyman