Understanding the Legal Aspects of a Students’ FAPE for Charter School Teachers/School Leaders
Conference Organizer:
Dr. York Williams, Associate Professor of Special Education, Department of Special Education, at West Chester University
Overview
The purpose of this conference is to provide local charter schools who are their own Local Education Associations (“LEA”) with the legal, instructional and pedagogical framework necessary to address their students’ needs across special education and section 504. Research confirms that charter and cyber schools alike confront unique challenges at providing a Free Appropriate Public Education (“FAPE”) for students that are typically not the same types of obstacles that traditional public school special educator’s encounter while providing a FAPE for students. School teacher professional development and school leadership Act 48, PIL and CLE credits for special education lawyers will be provided through this conference.
Teachers and School Leaders will be able to take up to four seminars that:
Identify the legal aspects of providing a FAPE in a charter and cyber school environment.
Identify programmatic best practices for compliance and monitoring.
Develop a framework for special education collaboration across related service providers, family members and community education providers.
Develop an understanding of the legal and practical requirements of IDEA transition part C to Part B under transitions.
Develop an understanding of the legal and practical requirements of IDEA part B secondary transitions, the summary of academic and functional performance (“SAAFP”) and Secondary Transition Indicators.
Develop a more advanced understanding of Common Core State Standards and their integral relationship to the IEP goals.
Develop an Understanding of the legal requirements of developing measurable SMART IEP goals that have baseline data.
Develop a legal understanding of the requirements of progress monitoring and related service provider coordination.
Discuss requirements for Discipline, Manifestation and FBA’s.
Discuss the Integral relationship between FBA’s, PBSP’s, Crisis Plans and Behavior Monitoring Strategies.
Discuss the legal requirements of the CST, RtII and the Pre-referral process.
Discuss the legal requirements of the adoption, approval and implementation of 504 Service Plans and Related Health Plans.