SEA Executive Committee Activities - December

SEA representatives meet monthly with District 200 Administrators.  The December meeting included discussions about:

• Transition tours for parents of students with IEPs
• Encouraging parents of 7th and 8th grade students to participate in visitation days
• Individual visitation for parents who miss regularly scheduled dates
• Testing accommodations for EXPLORE and placement tests
• How freshmen parents know who their child's case manager (CM) is
• Putting 9th grade transition "Parent Panel" into the regular schedule each fall.

SEA representative meet monthly with District 97 Administrators.  The December meeting included discussions about:

• Teacher selection/evaluation
• Upcoming workshops for parents about measurement and tracking
• Follow-ups to may meeting including:  "Is your Child Struggling" brochure; Extended School Year (ESY); IEP meeting process; Parent survey, Regular communication to parents
• RTI norming data
• Director of Special Ed and Assistant Director of Special Ed visiting offsite and district schools
• Accommodations for twice exceptional kids for outside testing
• Training versus certification of staff in reading intervention programs
• District guidelines for OT services
• Parent training concerning new IEP format

SEA Representatives also serve on the following committees:

• D97 Advisory Committee on Special Education
• D97 Diversity Leadership Network
• D97 Mid Level Oversight Committee and two of the Action teams (Curriculum, Transitions and Academic Structures)