September Family Training Series

Please join parent trainer, Sassafrass Moore, on Friday, September 2nd, at 5PM (EST), as we discuss the alternative dispute resolution process. In dealing with the school, if you believe the school is not meeting its legal obligations to provide appropriate services for your student, this is for you. You will learn the informal processes to start by, how to prepare and communicate your child's needs, and the formal dispute options offered in our state. It is important to know that you have legal recourses. Even if your student's IEP is looking great now, it is always a good idea to come to the IEP table fully aware of your role and rights.

https://youtu.be/_DOE2k9vUu0

Please join Sassafrass Moore and Ginger Manley, via YouTube, as we discuss the Best Practices for Inclusive Education. The BPIE is a self-assessment for districts and schools to evaluate the current status of inclusion across the district or within a school. It must be completed every three years to show the most current data. We will talk about why the BPIE is important, and about FIN, the Florida Inclusion Network, who facilitates in the testing and corrective planning at the district level. We will learn about the three domains the BPIE covers, as well as the meetings that occur to review the data and come up with school improvement goals. Parents can ask for their school's current BPIE Assessment result, or even better, participate in the next one as a stakeholder!

https://youtu.be/MR9q7LB306o

Please join Sassafrass Moore and Ginger Manley, via YouTube, for the next of our Best Practices for Inclusive Education (BPIE) Coffee Talk Series. Each Coffee talk will bring specific ideas and strategies to encourage inclusion in our classrooms. In this brief video we will discuss what differentiated instruction is and how it is used in the classroom setting. When parents know more of these options for content delivery, they become better Individualized Education Planning (IEP) partners and are able to add more concrete ideas to the IEP. When we know strategies that help our child, they can be added to the IEP, guaranteeing their use in the classroom.

https://youtu.be/-x2Xr-p9r44

Please join Sassafrass Moore and Ginger Manley, via YouTube, for the rest of our Best Practices for Inclusive Education (BPIE) Coffee Talk Series. Each Coffee talk will bring specific ideas and strategies to encourage inclusion in our classrooms. In this brief video we will discuss what flexible groupings look like and how they are used to teach all students alike, not just ones identified as having delays or disabilities. When we pair students in different groupings, they learn the value lesson that we all have strengths and weaknesses, and that we can all support and teach each other. Groupings can be based on ability, intelligence style, and should be switched around often. Come learn more!

https://youtu.be/vS38HZUZBwg

Please join Sassafrass Moore and Ginger Manley, via YouTube, for the next talk in our series; Best Practices for Inclusive Education (BPIE) Coffee Talk Series. Each Coffee talk will bring specific ideas and strategies to encourage inclusion in our classrooms. In this brief video we will discuss what specially designed instruction, or as it is also known, Universal Design for Learning. All humans, whether typical or having disabilities have different areas where they succeed more or less than in others. Gardiner, the child development theorist studied by most teachers, created his Gardiner's Multiple Intelligences Theory. This states that we have not one overall intellectual capacity, but multiple. It is exceeding uncommon, if not impossible to find someone who excels in all domains. As educators, it is important to mix up the instruction styles, so that all children are reached, regardless of disability, or not.

https://youtu.be/2vAelSAKsVI

Please join Sassafrass Moore and Ginger Manley, via YouTube, for the last of our Best Practices for Inclusive Education (BPIE) Coffee Talk Series. Each Coffee talk will bring specific ideas and strategies to encourage inclusion in our classrooms. In this brief video we will discuss what collaborative teaching looks like. Whether your child is in regular education with supports, an exceptional education classroom, Multi-Tiered System Support (MTSS), or Response to Intervention II (RTI), but not ESE identified yet, there is a need for collaborative teaching. No one professional can know it all. There is always ways that educators can support each other to the betterment of all students. learn some ideas to encourage this practice in your child's school!

https://youtu.be/8y-DDad-nv0

Please join parent trainer, Sassafrass Moore, on Tuesday, facebook.com/popinfl, as we discuss all the new tracks to a standard diploma! Did you know that students can take Certified Technology Education (CTE) classes that allow students to graduate high school with a trade? We will also discuss transition issues such as interest inventories/vocational interest inventories, Vocational Rehabilitation (VR), and the new age in Florida to begin with Transitional Individualized Education Plans (TIEP). We will also touch on the Age of Majority, becoming an adult, and how to instill self-advocacy and self determination skills in our kiddos.

Please join Sassafrass Moore, facebook.com/popinfl, as we discuss the Best Practices for Inclusive Education. The BPIE is a self-assessment for districts and schools to evaluate the current status of inclusion across the district or within a school. It must be completed every three years to show the most current data. We will talk about why the BPIE is important, and about FIN, the Florida Inclusion Network, who facilitates in the testing and corrective planning at the district level. We will learn about the three domains the BPIE covers, as well as the meetings that occur to review the data and come up with school improvement goals. Parents can ask for their school's current BPIE Assessment result, or even better, participate in the next one as a stakeholder!

Please join parent trainer, Sassafrass Moore, on facebook.com/popinfl, as we discuss the alternative dispute resolution process. In dealing with the school, if you believe the school is not meeting its legal obligations to provide appropriate services for your student, this is for you. You will learn the informal processes to start by, how to prepare and communicate your child's needs, and the formal dispute options offered in our state. It is important to know that you have legal recourses. Even if your student's IEP is looking great now, it is always a good idea to come to the IEP table fully aware of your role and rights.