The document discusses challenges with special education paperwork and compliance processes that take time away from directly helping students. It notes that special education teachers spend over a third of their time on paperwork instead of instruction. The document also discusses how a new electronic data and reporting system could help streamline processes, reduce paperwork, and allow teachers to spend more time teaching by automatically filling fields, tracking data, and ensuring compliance.
1. ANALYZING SPECIAL EDUCATION’S “ GREAT DIVIDE” S.E.A.S. “ IEPs are not actually designed or used for individualized education; instead they are focused on legal protection and compliance with regulatory processes”
2. Each of these programs requires varying degrees of administration and staff participation. Special Education Cycle YOUR data interconnects with each of the daily tasks in your SPED department. It drives the actions, decisions, funding, and development of each IEP and the services that follow. SEAS Application
7. Can you fit all of your eggs into ONE basket??? 80 to 90 % of in-service for special education is devoted to compliance… … not improving instruction or the quality of student IEPs. Special Education… MORE than just IEP’S RTI IDEA FAPE HIPPA Civil Rights State FTE reporting Organizational Oversight Data Backup Transferability
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9. State Web-Based IEP application Special Education Cycle “ The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” ~John Pierpont Morgan WILL receive IEP data and integrate with state reporting mechanisms. Will NOT assist in the collaboration activities that create, address, and track WHY theses determinations have been made. i.e. Pre-eval assessments, Goals & Objectives
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11. Add as many students of Schools to the staff YOU CHOOSE SEAS Security…Just like you want it
12. “ DATA-DRIVEN DECISION MAKING is the KEY to identify strategies that work and developing more effective methods of allocating your resources" *Does not help create quality narratives DATA… Where does it all Come From?
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17. 98% 12,000 10% Teacher Satisfaction = Teacher Shortages of school districts report special education teacher shortages. 59 openings for special education teachers were left vacant or filled by substitutes in 1999-2000. 58 U.S. Department of Education-funded SPeNSE study of special education positions nationally that are filled by uncertified personnel . 60 (The proportion of special education positions held by uncertified personnel is even higher in some states. 61 ) Improving working conditions of special educators by reducing paperwork and mitigating the adversarial nature of special education
