Good Morning,
Although the snow is flying and the Holiday music is playing, I want to take an opportunity to guide us in some preplanning for the upcoming summer. As you may know, the summer school program funded through general education funds will not be in place this coming summer. I anticipate this will in turn impact requests for extended school year services for students with IEPs. As you may remember, extended school year services are considered through the IEP team process. The data needed to help with that consideration is the progress monitoring (charting) of IEP goal areas. I would encourage teachers to gather progress monitoring data after the Holiday break to help with any requests that may come this upcoming spring. Further information is available on the Grant Wood website at:
http://www.aea10.k12.ia.us/divlearn/specialeducation/index.html
May you all have a well deserved restful Holiday break and I look forward to working with you in the upcoming year!
Take care,
Julie
Monday, December 21, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Supply Budgets
Hello,
I hope this finds everyone safe and sound during our first Iowa snowstorm! Last night at the school board meeting the Linn Mar Budget Management Model was reviewed. The model lists some budget goal priorities. One of those priorities is to reduce supply and equipment budgets by 10% and eliminate or reduce purchases of supplies and services. Student Services will be implementing this priority by several means. One of those means is to reduce special education classroom supply budgets by 10%. Karen Wilson has the adjusted amounts of remaining budgets. All purchase orders will be reviewed and must be connected with specific curriculum needs and/or individual student needs.
If your classroom is planning for a field trip off the Linn Mar campus after January 1, 2010 please contact your building principal. In turn, they will contact me with any questions/concerns that may arise.
For those of you using the Unique Learning Curriculum, we will continue to monitor the number of printed copies and will reimburse the printing costs back to the building’s print budget at the end of the year. Please remember to notify Karen Wilson with the number of copies made on a monthly basis. As a reminder, these costs are budgeted through the Special Education ARRA (Stimulus) funds.
Any other questions/concerns please feel free to contact me.
Take Care,
Julie
I hope this finds everyone safe and sound during our first Iowa snowstorm! Last night at the school board meeting the Linn Mar Budget Management Model was reviewed. The model lists some budget goal priorities. One of those priorities is to reduce supply and equipment budgets by 10% and eliminate or reduce purchases of supplies and services. Student Services will be implementing this priority by several means. One of those means is to reduce special education classroom supply budgets by 10%. Karen Wilson has the adjusted amounts of remaining budgets. All purchase orders will be reviewed and must be connected with specific curriculum needs and/or individual student needs.
If your classroom is planning for a field trip off the Linn Mar campus after January 1, 2010 please contact your building principal. In turn, they will contact me with any questions/concerns that may arise.
For those of you using the Unique Learning Curriculum, we will continue to monitor the number of printed copies and will reimburse the printing costs back to the building’s print budget at the end of the year. Please remember to notify Karen Wilson with the number of copies made on a monthly basis. As a reminder, these costs are budgeted through the Special Education ARRA (Stimulus) funds.
Any other questions/concerns please feel free to contact me.
Take Care,
Julie
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Bookshare
More information to come... but we are learning about a web based free service specifically for NIMAS eligible but also other students with reading disabilities. It provides books that can be downloaded to a computer and read to a student. There are some upcoming webinars where we are learning about it but you can check it out at bookshare.com. Ask your GWAEA rep for details.
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