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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-11-28 | 4 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 6:30 PM to have you do small group work, we had five program priorities and our program priorities we call chapters. And that sounds lengthy, but each chapter is one page long. The entire strategic plan is nine pages. It isn't found in a white binder, it's actually written to be used. And so I'll share those chapters with you, I'll show you the plan and then I will tell you the next steps. Victoria Forester: Sorry, I need to go back one. The first program priority is looking at intervention and identification. So we wrote goals and strategies around how do we intervene for all students before they are assessed for special education services. And how do we properly identify students who need extra help. So the first chapter is all about intervention and identification. Victoria Forester: The second priority is actually defining our program, our service delivery model. How are we going to serve the students all the way across the district, from age three all the way to age 22. Because in Special Education, we serve preschoolers all the way up until the age of 22. Or a culminating event such as graduation from high school. Victoria Forester: Program priority three is our systems of support, we have invested time, energy, brain work and money into a multi tiered system of support, and within that system that encompasses General Ed, kiddos as well as special education kids. Victoria Forester: Leadership and communication is chapter four. How do we go about engaging the community, engaging teachers, staff, parents and students into all of the work. And how do we communicate this. So this is my fourth stop on a road show about the strategic plan, and we are getting to anyone who will be willing to really engage in this work. I have met with parents, and teachers, and principals, community members. Because my desire in this work, we talked in the strategic plan about our destination for this work. Our destination post card. And mine is to be the premiere district in special education in the next five years. Lofty goal, one I believe in, one I believe we can do, and if we work through this three year plan, we will get there. Victoria Forester: And the last thing is the most boring chapter for most people, but it is where my job lies. And that is in monitoring and compliance. Of course special education has more rules and regulation than any other part of education. Special education also is the most highly litigated legal work in the nation. More so than litigation around homicide, and crime, and burglary. Litigation around special education law. So I have become in the last five or six years in special ed, quite a lawyer. I know a lot about the law and a lot about compliance and this is something we need to grow in, in this district. That which gets monitored gets done. Victoria Forester: So the strategic plan is actually a glossy beautiful nine-page document that will go out to every family in the district, both in online, sent in an email and also in paper copy. Again, it's supposed to be used. So it's the second attachment on your agenda. Oh, okay, yeah, that's it, isn't it cute? So again, and if you'll just scroll a bit, you'll see the beginning that I have already talked about, our strategic plan members, some actual pictures of people doing the work, and if you will scroll down to the next page, here you'll see the first chapter, you'll see that every chapter has a goal. Every goal has strategies and every strategy has action steps. The action steps are the interesting part, right? That's the part where we have to do something to make the strategy and the goal happen. 03/13/19 Page 4 of 32 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-11-28.pdf |