Instructional | KEDC Special Education Cooperative

This session will provide the updated step-by-step guide of the process for developing an Individual Education Program using the IEP Guidance Document produced by the Kentucky Department of Education. Teachers will be provided the knowledge and skills to design meaningful, individualized programming for students in special education. This session will emphasize the role of determining current baseline using student performance data, developing measurable, observable goals, determining evidence based SDI & SAS and using appropriate tools for monitoring progress on successful student outcomes.

Who can register for the training:

• New Teachers
• Service Providers
• Administrators who need a detailed step-by-step training of how to develop IEP for students with disabilities. 

This will be a full day session for Elementary and Middle School Special Education Teachers working with Students with Autism, Emotional-Behavioral needs, and any other student determined to have social emotional needs. We will explore the WeThinkers and SuperFlex Social Skills Curriculum.  Free Kits available to the first 15 districts registered. More than 1 person from each district can attend but kits are 1 per district.

EnVISIONing the Future is a day set aside to bring students with blindness/visual impairments, their families, teachers, and service providers together to gain new learning experience, network, and learn from each other.   The day’s events will include hands-on learning activities and collaboration with representatives from various related organizations and agencies. Registration coming soon. For more information contact Pam Howard at pamela.howard@ksb.kyschools.us

Literacy Strategies for SwD Cadre 2018~2019

For Special Education Teachers though We welcome all educational partners!

Gather, learn, & share ideas for SLD in Reading & Writing using Recipe for Reading and The Writing Revolution Books

We will have PLC Discussions & learn from others in the field. 

All meetings are @ KEDC/Ashland 9-3:00 ~ Lunch is on your own - Books and materials are free while supplies last!

Scheduled dates for cadre:

• December 5
• January 9
• February 6
• March 6
• April 17
• May 8
• June 26
• July 10

Guidelines For Responding To Student Threats of Violence:  The Virginia Student Threat Assessment Model

The Virginia Model for Student Threat Assessment is a set of guidelines for school administrators to use in responding to a reported student threat of violence including those with disabilities. School teams will be trained to use a decision tree process of evaluating threats and determining appropriate interventions to resolve the conflict or problem that precipitated the threat. 

In 2002, Professor Dewey Cornell of the University of Virginia led a team of educators and researchers to develop a practical and effective set of guidelines for schools to use in responding to threats of violence. The resulting model was described in the 2006 manual, Guidelines for Responding to Student Threats of Violence. After years of development and research, this model, the Virginia Student Threat Assessment Guidelines (VSTAG), was formally recognized as an evidence-based program by the federal government's National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices in 2013. Over the past 17 years, VSTAG has been widely disseminated in the United States and Canada. No other model of threat assessment has demonstrated effectiveness in controlled studies published in peer-reviewed journals.

School Teams are required. Recommended team members include the Principal and/or Assistant Principal, School Counselor, School Psychologist, SRO, and the Director of Special Education or Special Education teacher leader at the school.

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