Transcript Cruising the River - Saint Paul Public Schools

Extended School Year
Services
Key Points
• Shifting paradigm over past 2 years
– Change from summer school to ESY
• Access by any student with disability vs.
access by only a few needing support to
maintain progress
• Difficult concept for staff and parents
to understand
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
Legal ESY Standards
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No single criterion
Regression-recoupment
Emerging skills
Nature and severity of disability
Notice and timing
Content and duration of services
Ability of parents to provide an
educational structure at home
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
What we learned last year:
• We weren’t sure how to fill out the IEP for
ESY services.
• We didn’t know what else to offer parents
besides summer school.
• We didn’t understand that we had to fill out
student applications in addition to the IEP.
• We didn’t talk with parents early enough.
• We didn’t give any guidelines as far as
time and setting for students.
• We didn’t know how to enroll students in
ALC program.
How to fill out the IEP
• Need to fill out three sections:
– Service Grid: Must fill in separate lines
for each ESY service ( including related
services needed) and check ESY box on
line
– ESY Box: Must fill in “yes” box, not
“more data needed”. Must fill out
template using data.
• Note: ESY summer session isn’t long. Pick
one goal – at most 2.
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
• EBD:
– K – 6 Rondo Learning Center 240
minutes a day
– 7, 8………Looking at different site –
possibly Homecroft 240 minutes day
– 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”
K - 8 LD, DCD, DHH, PI, OHD
• Center based services
– Capitol Hill location
– 240 minutes per day per session
– Can be 2, 3, or 5 days, but students
typically have come five days.
Considering how to schedule this.
– Be sure to indicate 1:1 on student
application if in IEP
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)
• End of January – new online student
application will be live on the Custom
Websites portion of
www.connect.spps.org
• End of January – staff applications
will be available. Will close end of
March.
• April 15, 2009. Student applications
due.
• May 2009: connect with parents to
confirm ESY locations, timelines for
transportation information.
Contacts
– Cecelia Dodge, Director
• Supervisors
– Mary Kelly, Elementary
– Mary Garrison, Elementary
– Marcy Doud, Middle Grades
– Mary Pat Mesler, High School
– Barbara Stilwell, Continuous Improvement
– Ruth Paisley, ECSE