Transcript Cruising the River - Saint Paul Public Schools

Extended School Year
Services
2010-2011
What is Extended School Year
Service?
• Not the same as summer school
• Ensure the receipt of FAPE
• Primarily provided during summer
break due to efficient use of district
resources
• Is not a continuation of the IEP. Is not
due to skills delays or lack of
meeting goals and objectives.
Why ESY?
• Unable to relearn skills lost over break period
– Took unreasonable amount of instructional
time relearning skills/behaviors previously
taught
– Guideline: Takes substantially longer to regain
skills than length of the break
• Some skills replaced by inappropriate skills or
behaviors
• Lose ground on functional independence
(example: just learned to walk)
• At risk for placement into more restrictive setting
Who should be considered?
• All students with disabilities must be
considered for ESY
– Districts cannot establish policy to
exclude certain groups of students
• Consideration based on the
individual needs of the child
• Annual IEP team decision
ESY is:
• Based on individual student needs and
specific critical skills important to overall
progress
• Designed to maintain mastery of skills
• Designed to maintain reasonable readiness for
next school year
• Considered as a strategy for minimizing
regression
• Delivered in variety of environments and
structures such as
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Home
School based
Community activities
Related services alone or in tandem with above
ESY is not:
• Mandated 12 months service
• Required for convenience of school or parents
• Required or intended to maximize educational
opportunities
• Necessary to continue instruction on all previous
year’s IEP goals during ESY period
• To be considered to help advance students in
relation to peers
• For students who exhibit regression due to
medical problems causing degeneration or
transitional life situations (death or divorce)
• For students who fail to achieve IEP goals and
objectives during school year
• To provide education beyond what is described in
IEP goals and objectives
• For credit recovery
Legal ESY Standards
• (a) there will be significant regression of a skill or
acquired knowledge from the pupil’s level of
performance on an annual goal that requires more
than the length of the break in instruction to
recoup unless the IEP team determines a shorter
time for recoupment is more appropriate
• (b) services are necessary for the pupil to attain
self-sufficiency because of the critical nature of
the skills addressed by an annual goal, the pupil’s
age and the level of development, and the
timeliness for teaching the skill
• (c) the IEP team otherwise determines, given the
pupil’s unique needs, that ESY services are
necessary to ensure the pupil receives a free
appropriate public education
Case Manager Responsibilities
• Ensure data is collected
– Beginning of school year
– After breaks
• Data used at IEP meeting to
determine annual need for ESY
• Ensure IEP team discusses full
continuum of services for ESY
– Parent involvement
– Hand out parent brochure
– Remind staff that ESY not an automatic
summer service for setting 3 students
How to fill out the IEP
• From EasyIEP do the following:
– Under ESY section of IEP Process choose from
the drop down box whether student (a) is
eligible for ESY services, (b) is not eligible for
ESY services, or (c) more data is needed
– Check the appropriate statement that the
student qualifies for ESY
– Write a rationale statement as to how student
qualifies for ESY
– Select eligible ESY services/related services
– Select no more than 2 ESY goals to address.
Choose ESY goals by accessing ‘goals and
objectives’ section of IEP process
How to fill out IEP (cont)
• Adaptations
– Transportation – Does the student need
curb-to-curb for ESY? Could he/she ride
a regular ed bus?
– Does the student need para support
during ESY?
– Also important for students not
receiving ESY – do they need curb-tocurb transportation?
Service Guidelines
• Suggested choices
– ALC - 60 minutes of special ed services
2 – 3X week
– ECSE
• Center based 2, 3, or 5 times a week 240
minutes
• Inclusion in regular preschool – 30 min 1X
week
• Home based – 30 min 1X week
• Parent drive in to center for related service –
30 min 1X week
K – 8 Center Based Services
– K-6 Learning Center/ASD K-8:
• 240 minutes a day
• Location: Rondo Learning Center
– 7th and 8th grade EBD II/III, RiverEast Upper:
• 240 minutes day
• Location: Homecroft Building
• K-8 LD, DCD, DHH, PI, OHD
– Location- Capitol Hill
– 240 minutes per day per session
• Grades 9-12: Autism, DHH, DCD, PI- Arlington
Building
• All High School EBD Fed II/III, PAS/PSD- West 7th
• Transition to Independence- Bridgeview
• Transition Plus- TBD
Center Based Services
• ECSE
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Location: Rondo ECSE
Center based 2, 3, or 5 times a week 240 minutes
Inclusion in regular preschool – 30 min 1X week
Home based – 30 min 1X week
Parent drive in to center for related service – 30 min 1X
week
• Be sure to indicate 1:1 on student application if in
IEP
– Not all Federal Setting 2 and 3 EBD, Autism, DCD, DHH,
and ECSE students “are entitled” to ESY. Can’t be
because we are “worried about them” or “they have a
bad home life” or “they won’t have anything else to do”
ALC Only – no ESY
• Case managers need to connect with ALC
Summer Team Leader in building to make sure
our students get signed up
• 6th grade students go to 7th grade ALC
• 8th grade students go to 9th grade ALC
• If student going to ALC needs special
transportation or a para, need to put on student
application AND contact Mary Garrison
• ALCs are often combined if building is under
construction. Need to tell parents
• If students attend programs outside their
attendance areas that are not magnets ( Como El,
Phalen, St. Anthony Park), they must attend the
ALC program in the school closest to their homes.
Timelines:
• Throughout school year
– Have discussions with parents
– Hand out brochures
– Write IEPs
– Collect ideas about alternatives in the
community
– Watch for updates in the Special
Education Newsletter
Timelines (cont)
• January 30, 2011 – new online
student application will be live on the
Custom Websites portion of
www.connect.spps.org
• January 30, 2011– staff applications
will be available. Will close end of
March.
• April 15, 2011. Student applications
due.
• May 2011: connect with parents to
confirm ESY locations, timelines for
transportation information.
Contacts
– Mary Kelly, Interim Executive Director of
Special Education
• Supervisors
– Mary Garrison, Elementary
– Abel Riodique, Elementary
– Larry Wren, Middle/High School
– Dan Wolff, Transition
– Laura Shae, ECSE