Webinars

As the school year comes to a close, business offices are finalizing budget decisions for the coming year and communicating budget performance for the current year to the board and community.

But…to tell this story with clarity, you need to balance both long-term and short-term perspectives.

Attend this 40 minute webinar to learn some “better” practice ideas from Dr. Clint McLain, Assistant Superintendent of Finance and Operations at New Braunfels ISD in Texas and Travis Zander, Sr. Analytics Advisor at Forecast5 Analytics (now part of Frontline Education). They will review their own planning processes for this time of the year, as well as what critical steps you can take now to best prepare for next year.

• Financial Uncertainties: Addressing your revenue, expense and fund balances
• Staffing Considerations: 80% of school district budgets are dedicated to personnel. How should you allocate money for different positions?
• Unpredictable Circumstances: Navigating COVID, ESSER funds, and Omicron stipends
• Budgeting: How to model scenarios and options for your school board to make decisions.

After two years of virtual, hybrid, missed, extraordinary, and personnel-impacted special education programs, this annual review season will involve the most important decisions to be made by school districts in special education since passage of IDEA in 1975. 

Is a wave of compensatory education due process litigation (finally) upon us?

Identifying and accommodating special needs during COVID-19 presented unique challenges and drove extraordinary virtual and hybrid services and outcomes. Now, concerns regarding avoiding future legal claims, while candidly addressing today’s COVID-19 learning gaps, will complicate 2022 IEP Annual Reviews and require special educators to gracefully discuss progress, follow new data collection processes, and safely wordsmith the next IEPs to avoid statements which may automatically expose schools to legal claims.

How have federal and state laws changed to require new action by special educators, today?

Learn practical solutions to bring back to your team to stay on the right track during the most challenging Annual Review season on record. Most importantly, together, we will drive best practices to support our special education students and improve learning and access. In this action-packed, engaging, and entertaining webinar, we will address the following issues, and more:

• Avoiding comp ed admissions.
• Discerning between failure to make progress and COVID-19 “losses.”
• How to address COVID-19 learning gaps?
• Consistent data collection during inconsistent services.
• Why there is a real difference between “comp ed” and “supplemental instruction.”
• Should there be “ESY” for all?
• Who is the new learner, and why schools need to adjust, now.