Extended School Year Services

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Extended School Year Services
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Key Points

• Shifting paradigm over past 2 years
• Change from summer school to ESY
• Access by any student with disability vs. access
  by only a few needing support to maintain
  progress
• Difficult concept for staff and parents to
  understand

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What is Extended School Year Service?

• Not the same as summer school
• Ensure the receipt of FAPE
• Primarily provided during summer break due to
  efficient use of district resources
• Is not a continuation of the IEP. Is not due to
  skills delays or lack of meeting goals and
  objectives.

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Why ESY?

• Unable to relearn skills lost over break period
• Took unreasonable amount of instructional time
  relearning skills/behaviors previously taught
• Guideline Takes substantially longer to regain
  skills than length of the break
• Some skills replaced by inappropriate skills or
  behaviors
• Lose ground on functional independence (example
  just learned to walk)
• At risk for placement into more restrictive
  setting

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Who should be considered?

• All students with disabilities must be considered
  for ESY
• Districts cannot establish policy to exclude
  certain groups of students
• Consideration based on the individual needs of
  the child
• Annual IEP team decision

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ESY is

• Based on individual student needs and specific
  critical skills important to overall progress
• Designed to maintain mastery of skills
• Designed to maintain reasonable readiness for
  next school year
• Considered as a strategy for minimizing
  regression
• Delivered in variety of environments and
  structures such as
• Home
• School based
• Community activities
• Related services alone or in tandem with above

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ESY is not

• Mandated 12 months service
• Required for convenience of school or parents
• Required or intended to maximize educational
  opportunities
• Necessary to continue instruction on all previous
  years IEP goals during ESY period
• To be considered to help advance students in
  relation to peers
• For students who exhibit regression due to
  medical problems causing degeneration or
  transitional life situations (death or divorce)
• For students who fail to achieve IEP goals and
  objectives during school year
• To provide education beyond what is described in
  IEP goals and objectives

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Legal ESY Standards

• No single criterion
• Regression-recoupment
• Emerging skills
• Nature and severity of disability
• Notice and timing
• Content and duration of services
• Ability of parents to provide an educational
  structure at home

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Case Manager Responsibilities

• Ensure data is collected
• Beginning of school year
• After breaks
• Data used at IEP meeting to determine annual need
  for ESY
• Ensure IEP team discusses full continuum of
  services for ESY
• Parent involvement
• Hand out parent brochure
• Remind staff that ESY not an automatic summer
  service for setting 3 students

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What we learned last year

• We werent sure how to fill out the IEP for ESY
  services.
• We didnt know what else to offer parents besides
  summer school.
• We didnt understand that we had to fill out
  student applications in addition to the IEP.
• We didnt talk with parents early enough.
• We didnt give any guidelines as far as time and
  setting for students.
• We didnt know how to enroll students in ALC
  program.

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How to fill out the IEP

• Need to fill out three sections
• Service Grid Must fill in separate lines for
  each ESY service ( including related services
  needed) and check ESY box on line
• ESY Box Must fill in yes box, not more data
  needed. Must fill out template using data.
• Note ESY summer session isnt long. Pick one
  goal at most 2.

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How to fill out IEP (cont)

• Adaptations
• Transportation Does the student need
  curb-to-curb for ESY? Could he/she ride a
  regular ed bus?
• Does the student need para support during ESY?
• Also important for students not receiving ESY
  do they need curb-to-curb transportation?

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Service Guidelines

• Suggested choices
• ALC - 60 minutes of special ed services 2 3X
  week
• ECSE
• Center based 2, 3, or 5 times a week 240 minutes
• Inclusion in regular preschool 30 min 1X week
• Home based 30 min 1X week
• Parent drive in to center for related service
  30 min 1X week

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K 8 Center Based Services

• EBD
• K 6 Rondo Learning Center 240 minutes a day
• 7, 8Looking at different site possibly
  Homecroft 240 minutes day
• Not all Federal Setting 2 and 3 EBD, Autism, DCD,
  DHH, and ECSE students are entitled to ESY.
  Cant be because we are worried about them or
  they have a bad home life or they wont have
  anything else to do

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K - 8 LD, DCD, DHH, PI, OHD

• Center based services
• Capitol Hill location
• 240 minutes per day per session
• Can be 2, 3, or 5 days, but students typically
  have come five days. Considering how to schedule
  this.
• Be sure to indicate 11 on student application if
  in IEP

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ALC Only no ESY

• Case managers need to connect with ALC Summer
  Team Leader in building to make sure our students
  get signed up
• 6th grade students go to 7th grade ALC
• 8th grade students go to 9th grade ALC
• If student going to ALC needs special
  transportation or a para, need to put on student
  application AND contact Mary Garrison
• ALCs are often combined if building is under
  construction. Need to tell parents
• If students attend programs outside their
  attendance areas that are not magnets ( Como El,
  Phalen, St. Anthony Park), they must attend the
  ALC program in the school closest to their homes.

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Timelines

• Throughout school year
• Have discussions with parents
• Hand out brochures
• Write IEPs
• Collect ideas about alternatives in the community
• Watch for updates in the Special Education
  Newsletter

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Timelines (cont)

• End of January new online student application
  will be live on the Custom Websites portion of
  www.connect.spps.org
• End of January staff applications will be
  available. Will close end of March.
• April 15, 2009. Student applications due.
• May 2009 connect with parents to confirm ESY
  locations, timelines for transportation
  information.

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Contacts

• Cecelia Dodge, Director
• Supervisors
• Mary Kelly, Elementary
• Mary Garrison, Elementary
• Marcy Doud, Middle Grades
• Mary Pat Mesler, High School
• Barbara Stilwell, Continuous Improvement
• Ruth Paisley, ECSE