Tip of the Week / Sept 8, 2015

Zhanna Preston, Ed. D.

In this PPT you will find the following tools:

- Growth Mindset Quotation (display in your

classroom)

- Growth Mindset Activity (do with your students)

- IEP Tip of the Week (discuss as a special education

department)

- Social Skill for the Week (display in your classroom)

- Social Skill Activity (do with your students)

- Sensory Pictorial Activities for the four remaining

days of this week (show one picture a day to your

students and have them study its details for 2 min)

ZP Tip for week of Sept 8 2015

GROWTH MINDSET QUOTATION

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed no hope at all.” Dale Carnegie

Dale Harbison Carnegie (1988-1955) was an American writer and lecturer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and

interpersonal skills.

Put this up in

your classroom

as the mindset

of quotation for

the week

ZP Tip for week of Sept 8 2015

GROWTH MINDSET ACTIVITY

Three things I am good at:

1)

2)

3)

Activity: Make a list of three things you feel you are good at and three things you aren't; for each item, explain why. Share your list

and reasons with a partner. Pick two items on your "not good" list and discuss what it would take for you to become better at

each.

Three things I am not good at yet:

1)

2)

3)

What would it take for me to get

better at these things?

Why?

Do this with

your

students!

IEP Tip of the Week

Students with Disabilities Participation in Extracurricular Activities

- Participation in sports and extracurricular activities can be an important part of school life for students

- Jan. 25, 2013, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) issued a “Dear Colleague” letter clarifying that students with disabilities be provided with equal access to extracurricular athletic activities”

- Extracurricular activities include activities other than sports, such as band, choir, zero period, etc.

Discuss this with

your SE department

IEP Tip of the Week

How to Address Requests for Participation in Extracurricular Activities?

Whenever a parent requests that her/his child with an IEP participate in an extracurricular activity, an IEP must be called to determine whether such participation

is required to be part of FAPE.- If the IEP decides that participation in an extracurricular activity is not required as part of

FAPE, the IEP must document this statement after documenting a discussion of the issue.- The IEP Notes Template should use the Prior Written Notice format to document the absence

of the need to include the extracurricular activity as part of FAPE.- The IEP then needs to document the following statement, “The participation in the

requested extracurricular activity is not required as part of FAPE or the IEP. The district staff want to ensure that the student has equal access to participate in the extracurricular

activity and is not discriminated as a student with a disability. Therefore, while not part of the IEP, the district offers the following accommodations to ensure the student’s ability to

have equal access to the extracurricular activity: ____________.”

IEP Tip of the Week

Students with Disabilities Participation in Extracurricular Activities

Accommodations to ensure equal access into an extracurricular activity may include (but are not limited to):

- Assigning a peer to guide the student with a disability in a track event

- The ability to go first when trying out for a cheer leader’s team

- If the extracurricular activity is of academic nature, the accommodations MAY be similar to those provided in the instructional setting of the IEP, i.e. repetition of directions, extended

time, etc.

ZP Tip for week of Sept 8 2015

PBIS: SOCIAL SKILL FOR THE WEEK

• TEACH YOUR CLASS “KAHFOOTY”• What is KAHFOOTY?• It means:

ZP Tip for week of Sept 8 2015

KAHFOOTY Mini-Lesson

• SOCIAL SKILLS MINI LESSON THEME: Teaching on how to Be Respectful, Be Safe, and Be Responsible using KAHFOOTY

• Skill: Teach students using KAHFOOTY • Context: All Settings • Introduction of the topic:

Teacher: “Today we are going to learn about Power of Respect And cooperation With responsibility and Safe behaviors using KAHFOOTY.” • TEACHER DEFINES KAHFOOTY (Keep All Hands, Feet, and Other Objects To

Yourself). • AIDES provide examples of how KAHFOOTY can be observed.• Teacher leads an activity: break the class into groups of four. Each group works

on a poster (see next slide) providing examples of what happens when KAHFOOTY is not observed in different areas of the school. You may print out the slide and use it as a mini poster

What happens when KAHFOOTYIs not observed

In the classroom: In the cafeteria

On the playground: In the hallways:

What may happen when KAHFOOTY is NOT

observed?

In groups of four come up

with examples of when KAHFOOTY is not observed.

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I hope you get a chance to: Discuss the IEP Tip of the Week as a special

education department Display the Growth Mindset of the Week

Quotation Conduct the mindset activity Do the Social Skills lesson with your studentsAND Take pictures of the activities, posters,

quotations, and share them with me. I would

love to forward them on to others. Thank you,Zhanna