Hello!
Spring break is here for some and wrapping up for others of you. I hope that you each have been able to spend time doing the things that give you energy and bring you joy! I also want to say THANK YOU to all of the educational diagnosticians reading this, as the state of Texas and Governor Abbott have proclaimed March 7-11, 2022 Educational Diagnostician Appreciation Week. While being celebrated by others is pretty cool, so is being able to say thank you to those who influenced our careers and help us get to where we are today. If you have not done so, take a minute to reach out to a fellow diagnostician who has impacted you either personally or professionally and let them know what they mean to you.
Region 10 is looking forward to seeing many of you in person here at the service center for our Region 10 & 11 ICE Symposium for evaluation personnel on March 22, 2022. We have a variety of sessions planned that day including a fabulous keynote speaker to kick us off. Hope you can join us live or virtually! Details and links are included below if you still need to register.
Amy
Understanding Dyslexia in Children with Visual Impairments
This article with embedded videos from Marnee is an excellent edition for your professional library.
In Person Sessions
Essential Elements of the FIE ( these are repeat sessions from Fall 2021)
The following series is designed for educational diagnosticians who are interested in developing or deepening their skills as an evaluator.
Selecting and Administering Assessments for the Educational Diagnostician
(4/22/22) Session ID: 2638295
Writing Impactful FIEs for the Educational Diagnostician
(4/28/2022) Session ID: 2638296
The Impact of Learning Loss and Eligibility Determination with Dr. Andrea Ogonosky (rescheduled from 2/4/22 - if you can no longer attend please cancel your registration)
4/8/2022 Session ID: 2640862
Language Difference vs Disorder with Dr. Jyutika Mehta, Pam Sepulvado and Amy Smith
4/6/2022 Session ID: 2643153
NEW! TEA Standards Based IEP for Evaluation Personnel
4/27/2022 9:00-12:00 Session ID: 2643841
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4/27/2022 1:00-4:00 Session ID: 2643842
Check out the Texas Transition Network for the Summary of Performance Guidance document as well as many other must have resources and trainings.
This is an excellent resource that provides an overview of the summary of performance as well as links to legal and state developed references on what to include and who is required to have one.
upcoming sessions for ARD Managers
ARD Manager 101: How to Stay Cool When Conversations Get Heated/ARD Facilitation (repeat from August 2021)
Ever dreaded going to an ARD meeting that you knew was not going to go well? How about having conservations you knew not everyone would agree with? In this interactive session, you will learn strategies for changing the course when a conversation during an ARD/IEP meeting begins to get heated.
NEW! ON Demand TEA Course: Admission, Review, and Dismissal (ARD) Committee Manager Training
This professional development session is a self-paced, online course that is intended to provide participants with best practices to ARD committee managers for local education agencies (LEAs) that choose to use this model. This course is intended to provide information, guidance, and best practice for successfully achieving the expectations, roles, and responsibilities of an ARD committee manager, including scheduling ARD committee meetings, preparing and finalizing required ARD committee paperwork, facilitating the ARD committee meeting, and supporting families and school personnel with the ARD committee processes. Participants who complete the course will receive 12 hours of professional learning credits.
Network 1 updates and resources
REPRINTED FROM JIM WALSH’S “DAILY DAWG” WITH PERMISSION FROM THE WALSH GALLEGOS LAW FIRM.
“I WANT COPIES OF YOUR TESTING PROTOCOLS”
The issue of parental access to testing protocols has been around for a long time, but we rarely see court cases directly address it. The Northshore School District in Washington had no choice about the matter.
The parents wanted to have physical copies of the protocols from the testing that the school did, but the school refused to provide them, citing copyright concerns and the need to maintain the integrity of the testing regimen. The school did permit the parents to view the materials, but not to have physical copies. The school also offered to send the testing protocols to a qualified outside provider identified by the parents, but the parents did not pursue this option. The ALJ (Administrative Law Judge) and the court held that the parents were not entitled to have physical copies of the protocols and the denial of them did not prevent them from participating in the IEP process.
A rare ruling on an obscure but important issue, and one that LSSPs will be pleased to hear about.
Daniels v. Northshore School District was decided by the federal court for the Western District of Washington on August 24, 2021. It’s published in The Special Educator at 79 IDELR 125.
DAWG BONE: ACCESS TO SEE—YES. PHYSICAL COPIES—USUALLY NO.
Subscriptions to the Daily Dawg are available at www.edlawdawg.com
Amy Smith, Evaluation Consultant
Email: amy.smith@region10.org
Website: https://www.region10.org/programs/evaluation-special-education/overview/
Location: Region 10 Education Service Center, East Spring Valley Road, Richardson, TX, USA
Phone: 972-348-1784