Your home or school
Any, IL 00000
United States
** This cohort series is being offered in collaboration with STAR NET Region VI **
In part 1 of this two part series, participants will learn about using ongoing authentic assessment data to build the present levels of academic achievement and functional performance (PLAAFP) statement in the IEP. We will introduce the "Golden Thread" that sews the entire IEP together. Participants will see how they can take their current evaluation summary to the PLAAFP statement when completing an initial or triennial evaluation. Lastly, participants will understand how the building of the PLAAFP in this way will set up the rest of the IEP to be high quality.
Part 2 will continue the work from session 1 by working through the Impact/Needs statement based on the PLAFFP. Next, participants will take a deep dive in goal writing. The concept of the golden thread will be extenuated through using “filters” to determine if a need/next step is IEP goal worthy. Participants will learn about foundational skill development in each domain and compare/contrast worthy functional goals versus goals written for general skill development.
** Participants must be in attendance for both sessions - November 7 and November 14 - in order to get credit. partial credit will not be awarded. **
Participants will be able to:
1) Use data to measure present level of academic achievement and functional performance.
2) Discuss ways to prioritize authentic assessment data in the IEP.
3) Summarize the Golden Thread of the IEP.
4) Create high quality goals based on present level data.
5) Clarify what makes a goal "IEP worthy".
6) Restate the importance of targeting foundational skills for IEP goals.