Special Education Task Force

Focus: Inclusionary Practices & Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)

Agenda | Thursday, November 29, 5pm to 8pm

Pre-Reading: Summary of the Evidence On Inclusive Education (please review this report that was originally distributed for Meeting #1 on 10/23)

GOAL: Draft recommendations that advance inclusionary practices

• Generate Ideas that Advance Inclusionary Practices and Least Restrictive Environment
• Evaluate Those Ideas
• Narrow the Options to the Most Promising

4:15 Optional Session / Q&A with DPS Portfolio Team

Special Education and the DPS Family of Schools – including charter, innovation and traditional schools

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5:00 Agenda Preview and Preliminary Matters

5:10 Quick Look at Recommendations from Meetings 2 and 3

5:25 Youth Panel: Experiences of Inclusion

5:55 Generating Options – Inclusionary Practices and Least Restrictive Environment

6:30 Apply Criteria to The Options

• Which Are Ideas Are Most Promising?
• Which Best Meet the Tests from Meeting 1?
• Which Ideas Can be Modified, Combined, Improved?
• Which Enjoy the Most Wide-Spread Support Among the Task Force?

Break during this portion of the agenda to get dinner

7:30 Narrowing

• Which Ideas Could for the Basis for our Recommendation?

7:50 Conclusion

• Did We Reach a Preliminary Conclusion or Agreement-in-Principle?
• What Next?
• Meeting Evaluation Survey
• Prepare for Meeting #5 Structures for Ongoing Engagement, Collaboration & Accountability (Sat 12/8 10am-1pm)
• Reminder: Wed 12/5, 4:30pm-5:15pm | Optional Session with DPS Chief Financial Officer: Special Education Budgets (location: Contemporary Learning Academy)