Review Agenda Item
Meeting Date: 12/14/2018 - 7:00 PM
Category: Curriculum and Instruction
Type: Info
Subject: Students with Disabilities Evaluation Draft Action Plan Timeline
ACPS 2025 Strategic Plan Goal:
Objective 1.1 Educational Excellence
ACPS will regularly assess and respond to the needs, interests, and abilities of individual students.
Objective 6.2 Continuous Improvement
ACPS will engage in cycles of continuous improvement at every level of the school division, and it will employ evidence-based decision-making in its consideration of process improvements, policy making, and budgeting and accountability.
Policy: IA - Instructional Goals and Objectives
Funding Source or Fiscal Impact (where applicable)
File Attachment:
181214_Brief_Students_with_Disabilities_Evaluation_Draft_Action_Plan_Timeline.pdf
Agenda Item Summary:
Background: The evaluation of services to students with disabilities was designed to provide a comprehensive review of the current state of programs and services for students with disabilities. In response to the report's findings and recommendations, ACPS developed a Draft Action Plan. ACPS received public comment in face-to-face forums on November 13-14, 2018. An online survey to receive public comment opened November 5, 2018, and was scheduled to remain open until November 20, 2018.

Due to limited staff response, and in an attempt to garner additional feedback, the district is reaching out, over the next several weeks, directly to staff through department meetings and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs). This will occur so that the Plan may be reviewed extensively and more feedback provided. Additional outreach will be made via email to parents and through SEAC as well as the Parent Resource Center (PRC). The revised schedule is as follows:

• The online survey will now remain open until January 18, 2019.
• A Principal Feedback Forum, facilitated by Hanover Research, is scheduled for January 24, 2019.
• Hanover will provide ACPS a report analyzing all feedback on February 4, 2019.
• ACPS will consider all feedback and make necessary revisions to the Draft Action Plan.
• A Final Action Plan is expected to be presented to the Board on March 7, 2019.
Recommendation: The Superintendent recommends the School Board review the SWD Evaluation Draft Action Plan for future discussion regarding possible planning, programmatic, and/or budgetary changes.
Approvals:
Recommended By:
Signed By:
Dr. Terri H. Mozingo - Chief Academic Officer
Signed By:
Dr. Gregory C. Hutchings, Jr. - Superintendent