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Completando os Três Aninhos – Transição da Intervenção Precoce
Completando os Três Aninhos – Transição da Intervenção Precoce
Completando os Três Aninhos fornece informações sobre os procedimentos para a transição de uma criança de intervenção precoce (EI) para educação especial. Diferenças entre EI eEducação Especial •Processo dePlanejamento deTransição •Processo de EducaçãoEspecial •Consentimento e Avaliações •Elegibilidade paraEducação Especial •A Reunião da Equipe •Opções para ResolverDiferenças •Revisão
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Basic Rights: Evaluation and Eligibility
Basic Rights: Evaluation and Eligibility
Host: Triton District SEPAC This presentation is a comprehensive introduction into special education laws and procedures. We will delve into the purpose of the law, referrals, evaluations, and the team meeting process including determining eligibility. Further discussion will focus on services, placement, and what to do when
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RTSC Online Orientation Training
RTSC Online Orientation Training
Become a Special Education Decision-Maker for a Child in State Custody Volunteers, known as Special Education Surrogate Parents (SESPs), serve as appointed educational special decision-makers for students in the custody of the Department of Children and Families (DCF). SESP volunteers have the legal authority of a parent or
POSTPONED – Basic Rights: Understanding the IEP
POSTPONED – Basic Rights: Understanding the IEP
This workshop has been postponed and a new date is to be announced. Host: Advanced Math and Science Academy Charter School This presentation was developed to help families gain a deeper understanding of the IEP document. We will talk about why it is important, how it is
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Children & Youth with Special Health Needs (CYSHN) Town Hall: COVID-19 Vaccinations
Children & Youth with Special Health Needs (CYSHN) Town Hall: COVID-19 Vaccinations
To change the language of this website and form, click on the language widget above. Para cambiar el idioma de este sitio web y el formulario, haga clic en el widget de idioma de arriba. Para alterar o idioma deste site e formulário, clique no widget do
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SESP Weekly Check-In
SESP Weekly Check-In
SESP Weekly Zoom Meeting All SESPs are welcome. This will be an open zoom meeting format with RTSC support staff facilitating conversations around general questions that are common among Special Education Surrogate Parents (SESPs). For questions, contact us at rtsc@fcsn.org.
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SESP Weekly Check-In
SESP Weekly Check-In
SESP Weekly Zoom Meeting All SESPs are welcome. This will be an open zoom meeting format with RTSC support staff facilitating conversations around general questions that are common among Special Education Surrogate Parents (SESPs). For questions, contact us at rtsc@fcsn.org.
Basic Rights: Evaluation and Eligibility
Basic Rights: Evaluation and Eligibility
Host: New Heights Charter School This presentation is a comprehensive introduction into special education laws and procedures. We will delve into the purpose of the law, referrals, evaluations, and the team meeting process including determining eligibility. Further discussion will focus on services, placement, and what to do
Basic Rights: Evaluation and Eligibility
Basic Rights: Evaluation and Eligibility
Host: Danvers SEPAC This presentation is a comprehensive introduction into special education laws and procedures. We will delve into the purpose of the law, referrals, evaluations, and the team meeting process including determining eligibility. Further discussion will focus on services, placement, and what to do when you
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Connecting Families with MA Rehabilitation Commission (MRC)
Connecting Families with MA Rehabilitation Commission (MRC)
The MRC Office of Individual and Family Engagement: what it can do for YOU and Your family! To change the language of this website and form, click on the language widget above. Para cambiar el idioma de este sitio web y el formulario, haga clic en el
Discipline and Suspension Training
Discipline and Suspension Training
This training describes different types of disciplinary offenses, the school responsibilities for discipline, range of consequences for rule violations, the difference between suspensions, expulsions, and emergency removals, different categories of suspensions, procedures for out of school suspensions and expulsions, and legal protections for students on IEPs including
Charla de la comunidad latina de FCSN
Charla de la comunidad latina de FCSN
Charla de la comunidad latina de FCSN (Ruth de la Cruz Coordinadora del Grupo de Padres Latinos de FCSN, nos reunimos el primer jueves de cada mes para traer actualizaciones de los proyectos de FCSN, responder preguntas y a veces aprovechar la oportunidad para hacer capacitaciones o
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RTSC Online Orientation Training
RTSC Online Orientation Training
Become a Special Education Decision-Maker for a Child in State Custody Volunteers, known as Special Education Surrogate Parents (SESPs), serve as appointed educational special decision-makers for students in the custody of the Department of Children and Families (DCF). SESP volunteers have the legal authority of a parent or
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Trauma Training for SESPs
Trauma Training for SESPs
This training will offer a systematic approach to looking at Developmental Childhood Trauma as it impacts our students in the child welfare system. This interactive training will study trauma’s effects on the academic and social/emotional learning of a student and the impact on their IEP. This training
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RTSC Online Orientation Training
RTSC Online Orientation Training
Become a Special Education Decision-Maker for a Child in State Custody Volunteers, known as Special Education Surrogate Parents (SESPs), serve as appointed educational special decision-makers for students in the custody of the Department of Children and Families (DCF). SESP volunteers have the legal authority of a parent or
SESP Weekly Check-In
SESP Weekly Check-In
SESP Weekly Zoom Meeting All SESPs are welcome. This will be an open zoom meeting format with RTSC support staff facilitating conversations around general questions that are common among Special Education Surrogate Parents (SESPs). For questions, contact us at rtsc@fcsn.org.
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Bullying: What Parents Need to Know
Bullying: What Parents Need to Know
Host: Hudson Public Schools Our new presentation addresses what a bully is; the school’s legal obligation to prevent and address bullying; some strategies and tools for dealing with bullying; and how to address bullying in the IEP. We welcome both parents and professionals to join us for
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Basic Rights: Evaluation and Eligibility
Basic Rights: Evaluation and Eligibility
Host: Winthrop Public Schools This presentation is a comprehensive introduction into special education laws and procedures. We will delve into the purpose of the law, referrals, evaluations, and the team meeting process including determining eligibility. Further discussion will focus on services, placement, and what to do when
Basic Rights: Transition Planning
Basic Rights: Transition Planning
Host: Millis SEPAC This presentation addresses the planning involved when a student is of transition age. The importance of planning, the roles of both parent/guardian and student and the student’s post-secondary vision. We will discuss how to prepare for the transition planning meeting, the age of majority,
Basic Rights: Evaluation and Eligibility
Basic Rights: Evaluation and Eligibility
Host: Ashburnham-Westminster SEPAC This presentation is a comprehensive introduction into special education laws and procedures. We will delve into the purpose of the law, referrals, evaluations, and the team meeting process including determining eligibility. Further discussion will focus on services, placement, and what to do when you
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Basic Rights: Evaluation and Eligibility
Basic Rights: Evaluation and Eligibility
Host: Island Parent Advisory Council This presentation is a comprehensive introduction into special education laws and procedures. We will delve into the purpose of the law, referrals, evaluations, and the team meeting process including determining eligibility. Further discussion will focus on services, placement, and what to do
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I’m Not a Bad Parent Film Screening
I’m Not a Bad Parent Film Screening
A documentary screening and discussion for SESPs Hear, see and discuss another perspective We invite you to view the film originally premiered by The Family Project - a collaboration among students in Northeastern University's School of Journalism, Citizens for Justice, and Northeastern University's Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline Project -
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SESP Weekly Check-In
SESP Weekly Check-In
SESP Weekly Zoom Meeting All SESPs are welcome. This will be an open zoom meeting format with RTSC support staff facilitating conversations around general questions that are common among Special Education Surrogate Parents (SESPs). For questions, contact us at rtsc@fcsn.org.
RTSC Online Orientation Training
RTSC Online Orientation Training
Become a Special Education Decision-Maker for a Child in State Custody Volunteers, known as Special Education Surrogate Parents (SESPs), serve as appointed educational special decision-makers for students in the custody of the Department of Children and Families (DCF). SESP volunteers have the legal authority of a parent or
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Bullying: What Parents Need to Know
Bullying: What Parents Need to Know
Host: Pembroke SEPAC Our new presentation addresses what a bully is; the school’s legal obligation to prevent and address bullying; some strategies and tools for dealing with bullying; and how to address bullying in the IEP. We welcome both parents and professionals to join us for this
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Effective Communication
Effective Communication
Host: Douglas SEPAC Describes how to be an effective communicator, why effective communication with the school is important, summarizes the methods of communication, how to establish effective communication with the school and parent’s procedural due process rights for resolving disputes. Please sign up to attend through our
Trauma em Português
Trauma em Português
Registre-se Uma série de conversas sobre traumas. Questões sobre traumas causados por violência doméstica, abuso sexual, questões psicológicas, questões de género, bem como a situação de imigrar e reconstruir uma vida numa cultura que não é a sua..
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SESP Weekly Check-In
SESP Weekly Check-In
SESP Weekly Zoom Meeting All SESPs are welcome. This will be an open zoom meeting format with RTSC support staff facilitating conversations around general questions that are common among Special Education Surrogate Parents (SESPs). For questions, contact us at rtsc@fcsn.org.
Basic Rights: Evaluation and Eligibility
Basic Rights: Evaluation and Eligibility
Host: Bellingham SEPAC This presentation is a comprehensive introduction into special education laws and procedures. We will delve into the purpose of the law, referrals, evaluations, and the team meeting process including determining eligibility. Further discussion will focus on services, placement, and what to do when you
Basic Rights: Evaluation and Eligibility
Basic Rights: Evaluation and Eligibility
Host: Sudbury SEPAC This presentation is a comprehensive introduction into special education laws and procedures. We will delve into the purpose of the law, referrals, evaluations, and the team meeting process including determining eligibility. Further discussion will focus on services, placement, and what to do when you
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Basic Rights: Understanding the IEP
Basic Rights: Understanding the IEP
Host: Northborough Southborough SEPAC This presentation was developed to help families gain a deeper understanding of the IEP document. We will talk about why it is important, how it is developed and the different sections of the document. Further discussion will focus on what types of services
Basic Rights: Transition Planning *Simultaneous Interpretation Provided
Basic Rights: Transition Planning *Simultaneous Interpretation Provided
Host: Malden SEPAC This workshop will be presented in English with simultaneous interpretation in ASL, Arabic, Cantonese, Haitian Creole, Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish, and Vietnamese. This presentation addresses the planning involved when a student is of transition age. The importance of planning, the roles of both parent/guardian and