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What Are Our Biggest Takeaways?
What Are Our Biggest Takeaways?
Takeaway #1
Takeaway #1
IEP Process is very student centered at all levels
- Self-determination and self-advocacy are significant.
- Students are always encouraged to imagine themselves as contributing to society.
- Students are identified in several stages.
- The IEP process is very transparent.
- Students are granted the time that they need.
Takeaway #2
Takeaway #2
Parent communication is a priority
- Communication is pre-loaded.
- Students are taught to problem solve and regulate on their own.
- Articulation meeting prior to entrance into school about process and how to handle situations.
- Expectations are consistent school-wide.
- Simplicity and streamlined.
Takeaway #3
Takeaway #3
Resource Centers
- Used in many ways at schools:
- Students come in for breaks
- Testing help
- “Cool down” areas
- Can also be used to help a student transition for a month, a week, etc.
What is Transferable?
What is Transferable?
Everything about working to support ALL children is transferable to our system. We must live by the mission that all children are created in the image of God and follow our own Catholic Social Teachings. The moral test of any society is "how it treats its most vulnerable members": we must recognize that the special needs of the children we serve in and out of our school communities makes them vulnerable and that we are called by God to serve them in the best way we can so that they can experience a full, enriched life. This cannot be achieved overnight, but we must begin taking steps towards serving ALL children.
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