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December 11, 2017

NOREP/Prior Written Notice: Lessons Learned in the Field

Special education laws and regulations ensure that parents are given opportunities to participate meaningfully in their child’s special education experiences. The NOREP/PWN: Lessons Learned in the Field webinar will provide an opportunity for participants to gain a better understanding of the legal requirements and implications of the NOREP/PWN, as well as how legal concerns may transpire when parents are not provided their procedural rights from the perspective of a hearing officer.

November 8, 2017

FERPA and Educational Records

IDEA B and FERPA have a lot in common. How do you read them together when facing a new issue or question?

September 21, 2017

Significant Disproportionality

The December 2016 amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act require each state to develop a standard methodology to identify local education agencies with significant disproportionality and ensure that children with disabilities are properly identified for services, receive necessary services in the least restrictive environment, and are not disproportionately removed from their educational placements by disciplinary removals. To facilitate the regulatory process, the PDE conducted three stakeholder forums to obtain public comment on the required significant disproportionality standard methodology. The brief webinar located on this page provides information regarding the terminology for significant disproportionality, an overview for the required methodology, and the input questions for the flexible parameters within the methodology.

September 29, 2015

Evaluation and Reevaluation Processes: The Basics

August 28, 2014

Child Find: Emotional Disturbance

This webinar will begin with a clear outline of the requirements of Child Find in Pennsylvania and a district’s responsibilities. The unique features of Emotional Disturbance, the definition and characteristics, will be explored as well as the process of referral, screening, and identification of students suspected of having an Emotional Disturbance.

August 12, 2014

Calculating Amount of Supports & Educational Environment

The purpose of this webinar is to provide information about how to calculate the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) percentage as reported in the Penn Data/PIMs systems. This webinar will give guidance regarding the fundamental differences between the amount of special education services a student with a disability receives and the LRE percentage.

May 22, 2014

A Focus on Consideration of Assistive Technology

The need for Assistive Technology (AT) devices and services is one of the special considerations that IEP teams MUST address before developing the IEP. What do teams needs to know in order to do this? This session will provide information and resources to guide IEP teams in considering AT and addressing it in the IEP document.

May 22, 2014

Surrogate Parents and Special Education in Pennsylvania: An Overview

IDEA authorizes parents to make decisions related to the provision of special education services. Whenever the parents of an eligible or thought to be eligible student are not known, cannot be located after reasonable efforts, or when the child is a ward of the state, a surrogate parent must be appointed. The federal requirements related to the appointment of a surrogate parent for IDEA eligible or thought to be eligible students are specified in CFR 3330.519.

April 24, 2014

Progress Monitoring for Assistive Technology

This webinar will discuss progress monitoring of multiple types of measurable annual goals including reading, writing, and communication as it relates to the assistive technology tools used in reaching the goal. Participants will state the definition and requirements for assistive technology in the school environment and the IEP and describe the difference between monitoring the assistive technology tool and the IEP goal.

April 24, 2014

Progress Monitoring for Behavior

Progress monitoring is the ongoing process of collecting and analyzing data to determine student progress toward attainment of measurable annual goals. This webinar will provide information and considerations to be addressed when identifying a student behavior to target, writing a measurable behavior goal. This webinar will provide examples of how to monitor student progress.

April 3, 2014

Progress Monitoring for Reading

Measurement of student growth in reading is critically important so that instructional decisions can be made in a timely manner. This webinar will review the use of assessment tools for progress monitoring of IEP goals in reading, including general outcome measures as well as mastery measures.

April 3, 2014

Progress Monitoring for Mathematics

In Progress Monitoring for Mathematics, participants will learn how to use progress monitoring tools to measure the effectiveness of mathematics instruction for students with mathematics goals and objectives in their IEPs.