Welcome back everyone! I hope the summer has brought you back to school refreshed and ready for fun! While you were away, transition has mainly stayed the same! The look of EASY IEP may be different, but the data that you enter is not. I do have a FEW reminders as you begin thinking about Senior Annual Reviews... ( I mean they are good reminders in general!) :-)
1. MAKE SURE you have an agency invite signed by parents BEFORE you send out an IEP invite. If a transition agency does not show, you do NOT have to excuse them. They are a mandated invitation, but not a mandated attendee.
2. Have the student complete, at LEAST the student survey.. (which is conveniently located right over here) ---------->
3. Before you begin your transition plan, it will be very helpful to complete your goals FIRST. As you are working on goals, think about why you are working on those skills for the the student. What FUNCTION will these skills have in the students life after high school.
4. If you are getting an error on page three of the transition plan, (Where goals are pulled through) make sure that you have either training or education checked on your goal pages and not both. 9 times out of 10 this is why you are getting the error.
5. If your goals aren't pulling through to page three of the transition plan, it's because you haven't chosen a transition area in the drop down box of the goal section.
6. Even though you are doing senior annual reviews now, do NOT forget that you will still be responsible for a SUMMARY OF PERFORMANCE on every senior. This will include seniors that graduate early, graduate from Premier, graduate from Rivers Edge, or age out of programming. It does not include seniors that drop out, or do not finish for other reasons.
I do have a bit of bad news. Because every high school has gone to doing senior annual reviews in September, it will be impossible for me to 1. attend every senior annual review and 2. create a senior annual review folder specific to every senior. HOWEvER, I will provide the standard information for you and will be more than happy to come to any meetings that you think will need additional guidance.
As always, if you need anything, please do not hesitate to call me at the office, on my cell, or email me!!
Have a great year! :-)
