April 15, 2021

Time and Place
The April 15, 2021 meeting of the Specialized Programs and Services Subcommittee will be held at 5:00p.m. Due to the Governor's state of emergency declaration, and because it is unsafe to assemble in a single location, the meeting will be held electronically and the meeting shall only discuss or transact business statutorily required or necessary to continue operations of the public body.

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Agenda
1. Call to Order

2. Old Business

A. Transition

1. Discuss Achieve Program. Are we able to look at a class plan or syllabus of program? Is this program at every high school?

2. Discuss ECSE, elementary, middle, and high school transition assessments. May we see what these assessments ask?

3. Discuss collaboration with SEAC and how we can be of help with pushing out the listing of transition supervisory in each high school to our community. Discuss POC in ECSE, elementary, and middle school transition supports.

4. Discuss these recommendations from the SEAC annual report:

Recommendation 3C: Job Training - Transition services are a related service and should be documented and written into the IEP as a direct service with support hours documented to accomplish the activities defined in the IEP. There is no reporting on what has been accomplished and often relying on the student or special education case manager to initiate a process.

a) IEP's should clearly document the special education services that will be needed while attending MATA and AOL. This would ensure that teachers are aware of the student's needs in that environment rather than relying on an aide that the school sends along with the student.

b) Provide dedicated Job Coaches at the high school level. Currently teaching assistants are trained as Job Coaches and they have other responsibilities that take away from their ability to devote their time to job coaching.

Recommendation 3D: Job Training - Provide training options at MATA for students that could support different programs at MATA where they can develop specific job skills that are entry-level but necessary to assist within the different programs at MATA or in real life. For example, learning to sort items/inventory, stock shelves, rotate inventory, entry positions in cosmetology, prep work for culinary, etc.

3. New Business

4. Adjourn

Minutes
(To be posted)