Welcome: Ted Kelly
welcomed everyone.
UPDATES:
ULRC: Bruce Schroeder
reviewed upcoming CSPD events.
Davalee Miller
introduced the February issue of the Utah
Special Educator which focused on general educators.
She also gave an update on Mentors and directed everyone's attention to
the pictures from the Mentor conference that were in February issue of the
Utah Special Educator.
Bruce announced that Jerry Christensen has been elected national president
of the Division of Early Childhood of CEC.
Jerry Christensen
updated everyone on the Preschool Conference which is
March 25-27. Registrations, due February 23, are about half in. He urged
everyone to turn them in as soon as possible. He also mentioned the form
to nominate outstanding preschool teacher/worker and that no nominations
have been turned in as yet. This is an great opportunity to honor someone
who is outstanding in this field.
Bruce announced the IDEA meeting on February 10 in Provo at the Provo
Park Hotel. Each district will be getting the training manuals and pertinent
information at that time.
PARENT CENTER:
Helen Post talked about their mini grant to work with American Indian
families. On February 10 there will be a dinner/meeting for Native American
families, made possible with this grant. She told of the Parent Conference
in March 28 at Olympus Hotel 9-4 with preconference on March 27 (State office
building with Dr. Gooze) and a reception Friday night at the Olympus Hotel.
She also updated consortium on the "Educated Transition Choices"
teams that received a kit of materials they could use. Helen gave updated
kits to participants and told about the materials in them.
USOE:
Tim McConnell called attention to page 24 in February Utah Special Educator
announcing the Statewide Inclusion Conference on November 12-13, 1998.
Ken Reavis announced that the program at Westminster has been approved
to provide teacher special education training.
Mae Taylor-Sweeten said that on March 11 there will be a legislative
update in Provo at the Provo Park Hotel from 9 to 12, with Consortium following
that in the afternoon.
Donna Suter reminded everyone of the upcoming transition conference
on March 19-20 at the Egyptian Center in Ogden.
INSTITUTES OF HIGHER EDUCATION:
Utah State University: Bruce announced for Jane Pemberton that
at the May consortium there will be a collaboratiave live demonstration
of technology including Unitah School District and USU.
Kathy Howard from the State Office of Rehabilitation has joined consortium
and was introduced.
BUSINESS:
Consortium board is at the end of the three year tenure of the leadership
team which consists of one rural representative, one urban representative
and one at-large representative. It was proposed that there be a change
to leadership team where there are two elected members (one urban and one
rural) and one appointed member from the fiscal agent (currently PROVO).
The motion was made, discussed and approved unanimously.
PRESENTATION:
Margaret Lubke updated everyone on IDEA. Task forces were established
(10 total) to look at the regulations. There are co-chairs from PAR and
ULRC for the task forces. Task forces have been meeting on a monthly basis.
There is also a planning committee to oversee the task forces (people on
committee are from school districts, USOE, higher education, parents, other
agencies). The task forces were to review statutes, develop response to
draft regulations, develop recommendations for Utah rules, and develop a
User's Manual. The User's Manual will include federal requirements, state
requirements, monitoring items, explanations, examples & non examples,
glossary terms, inservice resources. (This information will also be online).
Idea! IDEA "Certification" to learn the information (learn to
access information) and get something for their efforts (take a test to
show knowledge). This is still in the planning stages right now.
USOE homepage:
www.usoe.k12.ut.us
provides calendars, membership names
and addresses, OSEP response, links to other sites.
Mae Taylor-Sweeten gave a legislative update. She said that an administrative
intern in office will be helping with IDEA information (Randy Schelble).
She said that this legislature is a fairly non-controversial session. Governor's
recommendations have been so close to what USOE has wanted that things have
progressed smoothly so far.
Davalee Miller & Jerry Christensen did an activity to focus group
on changes that have occurred and what that means. Consortium was divided
into groups to brainstorm about
(1) What are the successes you have had regarding
CSPD activities this year? and
(2) What do you foresee as your training
needs for the future?
Results:
Successes: |
Needs: |
| substitute training | continue as planned |
| credentials portfolios | collaborating w/other agencies |
| meeting w/consultants - USDB | IDEA |
| upcoming trainings planned | assess at-risk |
| inclusion team involvement | difficult behaviors |
| Ednet faculty meetings | management of difficult students |
| ESOL training | tech |
| collaboration w/ reg. ed in training | discipline |
| Para professionals | IEPs |
| Seven Habits | reg ed - pre & secondary |
| Mandt training | |
| technology | |
| post high school w/adult services | |
| monthly inservices | |
| monthly mentor mtgs. | |
| DBI - institutes for students w/ID | |
| inclusion | |
| ESL | |
| Autism | |
| tech | |
| staff development teams meet regularly | |
| total school trainings | |
| conference participation |
Ted Kelly asked
everyone to look at the Provo homepage, specifically LRBI, to see if there
is anything that can be improved.
The next consortium will be on March 11 at the Provo Park Hotel in Provo
and then on May 1 at St. George Hilton.
Meeting adjourned at 11:30 a.m.
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