CASE Management 101

All special education teachers are case managers. The responsibilities include ensuring that the students they case manage have:

1. an updated, appropriate IEP that is developed and approved by the ARDC within 1 year of the prior IEP date.

2. routine progress monitoring for grades, attendance, behavior, and updating IEP progress

3. data collected to inform instruction and next steps with instruction

Audience: Special Education Teachers and Administrators

Presenter: Candace Jackson

Room 1066

Co-Teaching: What Works

This session will uncover how two professions work together using their expertise to instruct all students while ensuring students with special education needs receive their services outlined in the IEP. Teachers will leave knowing their role in classroom instruction, implementing the IEP, documenting services, and analyzing data to make determinations of next steps with instruction.

Audience: Special Education Teachers and Administrators

Presenter: Teresa Brummit-Dunn and Dominique Bass

Room 1073

Creating a Winning Classroom for Elementary Teachers

Is it time to reset your classroom? This session will provide new and DOI elementary teachers tools and processes to use to ensure that classroom lessons run smoothly without disruptive behavior from students compromising the delivery of instruction.

Presenter: Guidance & Counseling

Room Teaching Theater

Functions of Behavior & Strategies for Working with Angry and Aggressive Students

In this session, participants engage in utilizing principles of behavior to improve student engagement in the classroom and to decrease disciplinary referrals, applying strategies to address specific types of student behaviors, and adopting new tools to use in classrooms.

This session will also provide intervention strategies for working with emotionally unpredictable students in the general education and special education settings.

Audience: Grade 3-5 Teachers, Grade 6-8 Teachers, Grade 9-12 Teachers, Campus Behavior Coordinators, Paraprofessionals, Special Education Teachers and Administrators

Presenters: Paula Mickle and Thomas Mancha

Room 2030

Goalbook Part 2: IEP Goals and Objectives and Goalbook Data Collection/Progress Monitoring

The 1.5-hour session will include two trainings on the priority passport:

• IEP Goals and Objectives: In this session, participants will learn how to use Goalbook to write PLAAFP as well as IEP Goals and objectives. They will become familiar with options available in the platform that will increase the effectiveness and fidelity of IEP goals.

• Goalbook Data Collection/Progress Monitoring: In this interactive training, we will show you how you can use your Goalbook Toolkit account to develop a plan to monitor progress toward learning goals. Participants will learn how to use Goalbook’s Anchor Pages to identify the most essential skills at each grade level with scaffolding to support access. We will then identify criteria to ensure assessment alignment to the goal and considerations for data gathering and reporting. Based on progress monitoring data, teachers will explore how to adjust instruction using Goalbook’s Strategy Wizard. This course is recommended for educators who have previous experience with Goalbook Toolkit.

Audience: Special Education Teachers - All Positions (ECSE, CASE, SILC, PASS, SILC/PASS, AB, Co-Teach/ICS, Resource)

Presenter: Tawinna Calais

Room 2024

Modifying the Curriculum

Teachers often wonder, "how can I modify the instruction if the student has to learn grade level standards". This session will reveal the practices behind modifying grade level instruction based on the students needs and aligned to grade level standards.

Audience: Special Education Teachers and Administrators

Presenter: Shandressa Banks

Room 2023

NCI (Nonviolent Crisis Intervention)

This course for Nonviolent Crisis Intervention (NCI) training will provide strategies and procedures on how to intervene in crisis situations by teaching staff de-escalation techniques as well as restrictive and nonrestrictive interventions. Participants must also complete the online portion of the training to be certified.

Audience: Special Education Teachers and Administrators

Presenter: Chris Gereke

Room Cafeteria

PEIMS ECSE Coding for students 3-5 years old

This session will focus on the PEIMS coding in eSped for ECSE aged students, 3-5 years old, that receive special services as an EE, PK, or Kindergarten student.

Audience: Special Education Teachers and Administrators, Speech Language Pathologists/SLP Assistants

Presenters: Kim Sharp and Shawn Wade-Smith

Room 1064

Unpacking the TEKS/PK Guidelines

This training is designed for diving into the standards to gain an understanding of what the TEKS are and what students are supposed to know and be able to do to demonstrate their learning of the state standards.

Audience: Grade PreK-2 Teachers, Grade 3-5 Teachers, Grade 6-8 Teachers, Grade 9-12 Teachers, Instructional Coaches and Instructional Specialist, Paraprofessionals, Special Education Teachers and Administrators

Presenter: Dr. Alexis N. Taylor

Room 1065

What Does The Law Say?

The purpose of this session is is to help educators, and other stakeholders to better understand the collection of federal regulations for special education that ensures a free and appropriate public education (FAPE) for students with disabilities that attend public schools. IDEA requires that each public school provide services to eligible special education students in the least restrictive environment (LRE) and in accordance with each student’s individualized education program (IEP).

Audience: Special Education Teachers and Administrators

Presenter: Sheena Johnson

Room 2031

Writing Valid FIE's with Fidelity

The assessment team including the diagnosticians and LSSPs will review case studies and determine the validity and fidelity of the report using a given rubric.

Audience: Diagnosticians, Speech Language Pathologists/SLP Assistants

Presenters: Angela Blackshear & Elizabeth Bradshaw

Room 1067