New Math Curriculum Course Flow Chart
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Special Education Discipline
The Pupil Services Department is held accountable in several areas. These include the following:
Academic Achievement
State and Federal Paperwork compliance
Federal/State Performance Plan Indicators
Disproportionality
Eligibility
Civil Rights of students
Special Education Discipline
Parent/Student rights
Disability specific training (Autism, FASD, etc.)
Secondary Transition
Transition from part C to B
Student behavior and social emotional considerations with studets
Budget compliance
Staffing
On this blog sight, I will begin a series of posts that talk about all of these areas and what is happing in our district in regard to each. Today I will focus on suspension of students with disabilities.
All students may be suspended for up to ten school days per year. What happens when a student idnetified as having a disability has 10 consecutive days of suspension, or has over 10 cumulative days of suspension? What if a student is suspended for drugs, a weapon, or serioulsy harming someone? Rather than write an answer to all the possible scenarios, I reference you to the below special education discipline flow chart. The flow chart provides a step by step guide to suspension and expulsion. If you follow this process you will have no problems in this realm. This flow chart is found in board policy as an exhibit.
http://www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=15402
Please remember to always contact your assigned school psychologist to help in these situations and to contact the Pupil Services Department to help you determine if a pattern of exclusion exists (10 cumulative days suspended).
Thank you, and contact me if you have any questions.
Math Curriculum and Placement Information
Hello Principals and Counselors…with the adoption of new Math courses by the curriculum committee there will be a new procedure needed for placing high school students into pre-algebra which will be re-named to Algebra Readiness.
The entry base level expectation for math placement in grade 9 is Algebra. Obviously we will have students who have taken Algebra in middle school and those students will move on to Geometry in grade 9. When it is the recommendation of the math instructor in middle school that an exiting grade 8 student is not ready for Algebra a student may be placed in Algebra Readiness (formally Pre-algebra) with the recommendation of the IEP team (for a special education student) or the recommendation of the Intervention Team (for non- special education students). As high schools start building schedules in February it is important to anticipate these new placement procedures.
Middle School Math courses will consist of:
-7th Grade Math
– 8th Grade Math
– Algebra I (high school level) —Alaska Performance Scholarship Approved
High School Math Courses include:
-Algebra I (year-long) —Alaska Performance Scholarship Approved
-Geometry (year-long) —Alaska Performance Scholarship Approved
-Advanced Algebra (year-long) —Alaska Performance Scholarship Approved
-Pre-Calculus (year-long) —Alaska Performance Scholarship Approved
-Calculus or Advance Placement Calculus (year-long) —Alaska Performance Scholarship Approved
-Personal Finance (semester long course)
-Business Math (semester long course)
-Algebraic Modeling (semester long course) —Alaska Performance Scholarship Approved
-Statistics (semester long) —Alaska Performance Scholarship Approved
-***Algebra Readiness (formally Pre-Algebra IEP or I-team placement only)
PLEASE PASS ALONG THIS INFORMATION TO YOUR MATH TEACHERS, INTERVENTION TEAM, AND SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS.
Title I Pre-K Eligibility Process
Description of Title Pre-K screening process
Reading Intervention Matrix
Descriptions for reading interventions with web links
Intervention Process
Updated and simplified flow chart describing the KPBSD intervention process.
KPSAA Borough Tournament Workgroups
Hello High School Principals,
I am sure that you are all quite aware of recent discussions and issues pertaining to high school Borough Cross Country, Track, and Nordic Ski meets. At last year’s final KPSAA meeting the Executive Board charged me with forming three separate committees to examine the following questions for each meet:
1) Should KPBSD and KPSAA continue to offer a Borough wide meet at all?
2) If they continue should the current language in the KPSAA handbook remain or should language be modified to make attendance compulsory
3) Possibly develop a philosophy statement/rationale for why we host Borough Tournaments since there is language about Borough music festivals.
All High schools are encouraged to have representation on each committee.
The following dates/times have been scheduled for our committee meetings:
-High School Borough Track & Field on January 15, 2014 from 1:00-3:00PM in the Warehouse Conference Room
– High School Borough Cross Country Running on January 17, 2014 from 1:00-3:00PM in the Warehouse Conference Room
– High School Borough Nordic Skiing on January 22, 2014 from 1:00-3:00PM in the Warehouse Conference Room
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KPBSD Instruction
The purpose of this blog is to promote communication about the District’s entire instructional program in one place. New processes and clear direction will be available in one place for comment and easy access.