Are your teachers and staff fully up to speed on special education law?
Protect Your District: Know the Special Ed Law
Your school most likely has mandatory special education training requirements to fulfill and it’s an issue for every teacher. Your regular ed teachers are part of the team, too, and it’s impossible to comply with the law if they’re not performing their roles effectively. Do they know all they should? Do they have a solid grounding in the principles, practices and laws relating to special ed students? Are they able to act in the best interests of students, families, your school and your school district? Get the answers in Inside the School’s Special Education Law: 8-Part Training Series.
Special Education Law: 8-Part Training Series …
a comprehensive review for regular ed teachers!
Led by Thomas N. Shorter, attorney and noted authority on special education issues, Special Education Law: 8-Part Training Series provides a detailed look at the myriad requirements and provisions of special-education law … all presented in plain language.
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Created expressly for non-special ed teachers, it’s content-rich, wonderfully convenient, and exceptionally affordable. It will help you:
- Educate your teachers.
- Improve IDEA compliance.
- Protect your school and district.
- Better serve the needs of special ed students and their families.
Delivered on CD, each seminar in the series lasts approximately one hour, and features a blend of video and PowerPoint. Each also comes with transcripts and reproducible handouts. Your entire school will have the education materials for years to come.
It’s hard to express just how much essential information is contained in these in-depth presentations, but here are some content highlights from each:
Seminar #1: IDEA Overview provides an introduction to, and overview of, special education law. It covers:
- The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
- Child find and evaluation requirements.
- Determining eligibility.
- FAPE requirements.
- Individualized Education Program (IEP) teams.
- Placement options and alternatives.
- Informed consent.
- Due process.
- And more.
Subsequent seminars in the series expand on these and other essential program elements:
Seminar #2 Evaluations and Eligibility
- Required steps for IDEA compliance.
- When preplacement evaluations are required, and who conducts them.
- Evaluation tools and timelines.
- Processes for Specific Learning Disabilities (SLDs).
- Independent Educational Evaluations (IEEs).
- Determining eligibility.
- Disability definitions and categories.
- Reevaluations – timing, limits and process.
- Response to Intervention (RtI) issues.
- Parents’ rights.
Seminar #3 Procedural Rights and IEPs
- The IEP document as the central vehicle for providing special education.
- Its importance in protecting school districts from litigation.
- IDEA’s core requirements for IEPs – Present Level, Annual Goals, Goal Measurement.
- The statement of services and what it must include.
- IEP team composition – required and discretionary members.
- The roles of the regular-ed teacher and others in IEP development and amendment.
- The amendment process for IEPs.
- Roles in implementation of the IEP.
- Timelines and notification requirements.
Seminar #4 Discipline Provisions
- How discipline rules and limitations differ for special ed students.
- Important distinctions between Removal and Change in Placement.
- Removal and the “ten-day rule.”
- What determines a Change in Placement.
- The importance of documentation.
- Manifestation determinations – process, roles and notification requirements.
- Requirements when manifestation is (or is not) determined.
- Interim Alternative Education Settings requirements.
- Parental appeal process and stay-puts.
Seminar #5 Transitions
- Post-secondary concerns regarding special-ed students.
- Post-secondary options.
- Timeframe for identifying transition needs.
- When a Statement of Transition Needs must be prepared and what it should include.
- Transition planning and the IEP.
- Rights of students at the age of majority.
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Seminar #6 Private Schools
- Parents’ right to place their child in a private school.
- FAPE and the private school option.
- Whether and when reimbursement is required.
- Proportionate funding obligations.
- Claim requirements for reimbursement.
- Private preschool issues, including impact on child find.
- Evaluation and notification processes pertaining to reimbursement.
- Public school services for private school students.
- Due process rights for children in private schools.
Seminar #7 Due Process
- Parental right to due process.
- Parental procedural rights, including notification.
- Working with the district insurance carrier.
- General rules for due process hearings.
- Preparation of witnesses.
- Review of records.
- Due process timelines.
BONUS: Seminar #8 Section 504
- Overview of Section 504 and Title II of the ADA.
- Eligibility parameters under Section 504.
- Where Section 504 and IDEA intersect.
- Impact of amendments effective Jan 1, 2009.
- Mitigating measures.
- FAPE and Section 504.
- Requirements of an Individual Accommodation Plan (IAP).
- Reevaluation processes and timeframes.
- Discipline issues for Section 504, esp. drug and alcohol exceptions.
- Parents’ rights.
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About the Presenter: Thomas N. Shorter
Presenter Thomas N. Shorter is a shareholder in the Employment, Health Care and Education Practice Groups in the Madison office of Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. Tom represents health care and educational institutions, providing counsel in labor and employment and regulatory matters such as collective bargaining, FMLA compliance, discrimination issues, discipline and discharge, services for children with disabilities, IDEA, Section 504, ADA, HIPAA, EMTALA, Stark, and Anti-Kickback issues. His heath care practice includes working with hospitals, physicians’ groups, research institutions and other health care organizations. His education clients include public and private K-12 educational institutions.
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Super-convenient!
Train in groups, or let teachers watch each CD on their own, as their schedules permit. Then add the program to your school’s permanent staff-development library, to train new teachers and provide refresher training on a yearly basis.
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CD format makes training affordable for all
When you send people to offsite seminars, you have to pay for travel, lodging, meals and the like. You also pay steep seminar fees to help cover built-in costs—for the facility, the seminar leader’s travel, the AV setup, the onsite coordinator, etc. And the more people you send, the more you pay! No wonder offsite is off-limits for most schools.
But programs like this one really change the game for group training. With seminars delivered on CD, you incur none of travel costs, and the built-in costs are few. That means you can experience the program at a remarkably modest price.
Cost:
The entire Special Education Law: 8-Part Training Series costs $899 … no matter how many people you train. Purchase the program, and you can share it with all the teachers in your school. (And not just this year, but for years to come!) It’s not hard to do the math; depending on the size of your school, your training cost can drop to just a few dollars per teacher.
An opportunity you can’t afford to miss …
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