Special Populations
Durham has multiple special populations who have legally required service plans:
Sped students have an educational need and a designated disability with an ARD committee written service plans (SOS). This SOS stipulates accommodations for class and testing.
Gen Ed teachers must provide all services, but there are SDI (specially designed instruction) teachers on campus who assist students during class and can confer with teachers about instruction and behavior.
504 students have an impairment to a life function and have service plans with accommodations for class and testing.
Gen Ed teachers must provide all services. There are no case managers for 504 students -- please see an admin for questions.
GT students have service plans in Eduphoria.
The GT coordinator on campus is Peyton Miller.
RtI is part of a Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) process -- it is NOT a set program.
The MTSS process does have guidelines that tell us when to step in.
An ELL (English Language Learner) student is one who, at home, speaks another language other than English and whose English-language skills are such that the student has difficulty completing ordinary classwork in English.
The terms LEP (Limited English Proficiency) and ELL (English Language Learner) are used interchangeably.
ESL is the program "English as a Second Language" and the student is receiving services.