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This year the SELPA Office will be sponsoring several workshops and mini sessions especially designed for administrative personnel within a district. Workshops will be held throughout the year that focus on topics of interest to superintendents, principals and coordinators responsible for compliance, funding, program supervision, and implementation of special education services and programs. These workshops will be presented by SELPA staff, attorneys or others especially knowledgeable of the topic.

Flyers and registration information will be sent to each district administrator. If you would like to be added to our mailing list for administrative workshops, please call our offices at 661.636.4886.

Compliance Self Review - Educational Benefit
 Process, procedures, requirements for meeting SELPA and State mandates for a self review and reporting of special education policies, practices and implementation in a district.

Service Delivery - Implications and Requirements and Impact on Districts
 What are the options for delivering services with the new funding flexibility and coding changes? What needs to be considered? How do the service delivery models influence programs? This workshop will review best practice ideas and sharing options.

Interagency Agreements
 Several interagency agreements are in place in the SELPA. An overview of what these agreements require of the districts and what the implications are for practices in the districts and how services can be shared as a result of the agreements will be provided.

Parents - Surrogates - Guardians - Care Providers - Foster Parents - HELP
Who is able to sign and agree to what ? How do you know? How do you document? There have been recent changes in the laws that affect the decisions about “parents” and the school’s ability to accept signatures. There are two levels of workshops:

  • Training for Surrogates
  • District Issues and Surrogates

    Preservice for Administrators - 2006
    Roles, responsibilities and information for new administrators to special education or those who need a refresher. Watch for brochures and registration information.

    Accountability and State Reporting of Special Education Data – Implications and requirements of CASEMIS and SIS
    An early fall meeting in September will focus on code changes and entry changes and requirements; the November meeting will focus on the mid year state reports and the spring meeting in late April will focus on end of the year reports and data requirements.

    Attorneys Advocates and Adversaries
     This meeting will be presented by attorneys and will focus on how to work with situations that involve themselves, parent attorneys, advocates and on occasion, adversaries in the process of identifying and providing special education services.


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