Parent AdvisoryMarch 21, 2012

Agenda March 21, 2012 

• Parent Advisory Meeting Welcome and Introductions Charlie Lange

• Remarks Paul Tina

• Why Parent Advisories? (Upcoming Survey)

• The Best Kept Secret in River Dell Charlie Lange

• Interest Survey (Slide) Our staff• Where to go from here? Stay in large group or divide by topic?• Large or small group discussion

• Future meetings (topics and tentative dates)

• Adjourn

Upcoming Parent Survey• Please refer to the handout entitled “Sample”

• Last time: our data looked good but we did not have a high enough response rate to satisfy the criteria for the state’s benchmark.

• The upcoming benchmark is a roughly an 80% response rate.

• By way of comparison the response rate to this meeting is 37 replies from 255 students or about 14.5%.

• So how can we reach out and convince more families to respond?

Areas of interest

The best kept secret….

• The Special Services website….

• http://www.riverdell.org/riverdell/site/default.asp

• Quick tour so you know where to find us.

IEP development• This is a complex process facilitated by our new service

provider, IEP Direct.

• We fully comply with all state and federal requirements and we have automated as many procedures as possible.to free up our case managers. We now have:

• Electronic access (immediate) to all past IEP’s in they system.• Progress reports are generated and sent to you online.• We can send you a PDF of your IEP anytime and from

anywhere we have access to the internet. • Your information and concerns can be integrated easily.

Moby Math

•Take the tour at:

• http://www.mobymath.com/MobyMath/Home.php

Individualized instruction

Progress reports available when needed

Going live to parents this fall! Key question: how much training would be needed to make the most of the program?

Achieve 3000, Empower 3000• Non fiction stories, written from Associated Press, United

Press International and now National Geographic.• Presented at your student’s reading level.• Always integrates standards, writing, thinking

• Research based: http://www.achieve3000.com/research

• Let’s have a look at a real assignment• http://login.achieve3000.com/

• Key question: open the program to parents? How much training would ne needed to achieve the full benefit ?

What’s next?• Paul Tina contact information• ptptmt@verizon.net• 201-986-1140

• Direct link to the Special Services Webpage• http://

www.riverdell.org/22131031095734620/site/default.asp

• Meeting dates and Topics