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August ESE Meeting
Housekeeping
Items
Teacher Expectations
Referrals
Private School/Home School Students
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Add To Your Favorites!
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ESE Webpage – your gateway to procedures
and forms!
http://www.rockhill.k12.sc.us/exceptionalstudenteducation.aspx
Departments
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Instruction and Accountability
Exceptional Student Education
WOW – The Transfers
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Well over 65 transfer students, so far…
Keep up the good work!
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Getting the Transfer Packets completed and sent
to Mary Van Lieu
The EFA box
Self-contained kids
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Enroll at geographic home school
Contact your school psych
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New ACTION Form
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Where can I get it? (all 3 pages of it!)
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Website
Betsey Williams
NEW! ESE office is sending the ACTION
form to the SIS CLERK
Keep the Conference Notes brief
What questions do you have?
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PWN – After EVERY Meeting/Action
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EXCENT PWN form
District PWN form
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Last line of the page 3 – ACTION Form
Training PowerPoint on the ESE Website
 http://www.rockhill.k12.sc.us/exceptionalstudenteducation/ie
presources.aspx
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Betsey
Website
Nursing Services – Related Service
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Check your case load names with the nurse
Students with IEPs and who have IHPs
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Add Nursing Services as a related service by
calling a meeting or doing an amendment to the
IEP
Attach a copy of the IHP to the IEP packet (IHP
MUST be in the ESE file)
COSF
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EXCENT Data Entry requirement for
Preschool and Elementary Teachers every 9
weeks!
ALL children under the age of 6
Expectations of Case Managers
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Provide IEP info to all teachers and others
who “need to know”
Annual reviews due on student birthdates
Document at least 2 attempts to invite
parents to participate
Call special reviews
Bring a draft copy of the IEP to every IEP
meeting.*
Expectations of Case Managers
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Update present levels for each IEP
meeting
Include functional assessment in the
present levels
A new IEP is required at each reevaluation
Complete an ACTION Form for all IEP
meetings and actions
Expectations of Case Managers
Complete a Prior Written Notice
(PWN) for all meetings, actions, and
parent requests
11. Turn all IEP packets into the ESE
office within 5 school days of the
meeting or action
12. Don’t miss Re-eval dates
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Chapter 2 - ChildFind
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School Districts - locate and identify students
w/disabilities in need of specialized instruction
Referral Process (defined in SEPG Ch. 2)
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Preschool
School-age
Parent Requests
Private School/Homeschool
RTF (New Hope)
Chapter 2 - ChildFind
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Section C – Referral Processes
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General Ed. Intervention (our elementary process
follow school process of RTI)
Problem-Solving Process (our secondary process
follows SIT process requiring at least 3 meetings)
Our elementary and secondary processes ARE
DIFFERENT – follow the Referral Procedures
Data is required!
Secondary Referral
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Teacher/team completes the packet to
INITIATE problem-solving process
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6-page packet
At least 3 meetings are required
Intervention data must be taken
ERCC Meeting required before referral is turned
into ESE Office
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School psych
Special Education teacher
Procedures for parent requests
Elementary Referral
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Teacher/RTI team completes the packet at
the END of the school’s RTI process
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2-page cover for school RTI process and data
ERCC Meeting is required before referral is
turned into the ESE Office
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School Psych OR S/L Therapist
Special Education teacher
Procedures for parent requested
Parent Requests
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School describes and asks cooperation in
the child taking part in the school’s
intervention process
Can’t hold up a parent request to do an
evaluation if they don’t agree to the
interventions
In almost all cases, interventions will have to
be implemented WHILE the evaluation is
being done
Chapter 9 – Private School/Home
School Service Plans (not IEPs)
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Parentally placed students who qualify have
the opportunity to participate, but have no
individual right to SpEd or Related Services.
RHSD3 is required to use a proportionate
share of our federal funding to provide
services.
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between 1 and 2 hours per week per child
Served with Service Plans NOT IEPs
What Teachers Need to Know
about Service Plans
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RHSD3 procedures (Private School/Home
School Students) and Service Plan (green)
Student should be entered in EXCENT, but
Service Plan is not in EXCENT.
Charter Schools ARE NOT private schools
– CAH is our responsibility (IEPs)
– YPA and Virtual Charter School is the
responsibility of the SC Charter School District
To Finish Up
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