Vocabulary

Hi everyone!

I hope your week is successful so far! Thanks for everyone who filled out the Happy Happy survey! Those of you who haven't, please get that to me asap.

Couple of things:

1-Many people have had SEAS questions for Phyllis lately, so I just wanted to clear it up for you guys: APSCN and SEAS aren't related in any way, so if your Alpha and your SEAS roster don't match, don't be alarmed. APSCN we handle, but we need you to manage your SEAS account.

2-Upon review of Requests to Evaluate I am noticing there are some documents that you guys aren't sending. These documents should be available to send to us when you send consent, as you should be reviewing them in your referral or reeval conferences. The information on these documents is vital to any decision you are making in the conferences.

Most notably, these documents are:
Hearing and Vision
Social History
Current Grades
CBA
Group Achievement Scores

All of these documents should be weighty in any decision making process. My big worry is not that you aren't sending them to us right away, but that perhaps they aren't available for review in the conference.

Please make sure you are reviewing ALL information when analyzing what data we need to collect in order to properly serve each child. These documents are not just needed for the report, they are needed in order to make thoughtful decisions.

Today I wanted to bring to your attention an intervention clearinghouse http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/ Check this site out for tons of ideas on how to adapt our teaching style, curriculum and interventions to best match each kiddo's learning style.

I hope you have a wonderful end of the week and weekend. Please post questions, comments or ideas here for us all to share!