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Special
Education Program Support and Services provides special educators with technical
assistance, services, and professional development designed to assist students
with disabilities in successfully access the general education curriculum and
make appropriate social and academic gains, as well as ensure that districts are
in compliance with state and federal regulations.
Behavior and Discipline
PBS is a system-level approach to preventing and responding to school and
classroom
discipline problems. PBS develops school-wide systems that support staff to
teach and
promote positive behavior in all students. By reducing behavioral problems, PBS
creates
and maintains safe learning environments where teachers can teach and students
can learn.
PBS Addresses:
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High rates of problem behavior that interfere with
learning
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Ineffective and inefficient disciplinary practices
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Lack of supports for staff to address problem behavior
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Lack of general and specialized behavior interventions
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Negative school climates
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Reliance on crisis/reactive management.
The region-wide Positive Behavior Support Project, sponsored by HPREC, is
assisting
schools (K-12) to build systems to address behavior of all students.
For more information on Positive Behavior support visit: National Technical
Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) @
www.pbis.org
Contact: Dana Stoltz Gray @ 575.445.7090.
Child Find
HPREC provides coordination and
technical assistance to member school districts in meeting federal,
state, and local mandates for students with disabilities who qualify
for special education and related services. Child Find is a
component of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA),
that requires states to identify, locate, and evaluate all children
with disabilities, aged birth through 21, who are in need of early
intervention or special education services.
Please see the brochures below for upcoming child find events in your community.
If you miss these dates, please contact your local school district.
Child Find Brochures:
Contact: Dana Stoltz Gray or
Shari Zimmer @ 575.445.7090.
Compliance Monitoring - State
Performance Plan Indicator
HPREC provides professional
development and technical assistance to member districts in a
program review processes for special education programs to ensure
that they are incompliance with federal and state mandates. In
addition, HPREC works with member districts to indentify areas of
strength and challenges as evidenced by the State Performance Plan
Indicator data and develop and implement systematic action plan to
address areas of concern.
Contact: Dana Stoltz Gray or
Shari Zimmer @ 575.445.7090.
IDEA Procedures and Guidelines -
Student Assessment and Evaluation - IEPS
HPREC provides materials, professional development, and technical assistance to
member districts to assist in meeting federal, state, and local mandates for
evaluation, reevaluation, monitoring progress towards IEP goals, and in
determining effectiveness of the education program. HPREC has developed a series
professional development trainings and materials to assist educators understand
the special education process in a step-by-step process with hands-on activities
built in. These trainings include:
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Seeing the Forrest Through the Trees: A Guide to
Effective Student Assistance teams Using an RtI Process.
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Seeing the Forrest Through the Trees: A Guide to
Special Education Processes According to IDEA 2004.
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Seeing the Forrest Through the Trees:
Understanding Section 504.
HPREC developed and sponsors a web-based program that allows educators to
document essential procedures such as Student Assistance Teams, Response to
Intervention, Assessment and Evaluations, Special Education Eligibility
Determination, IEPs, Progress Notes, Parent Contacts, Section 504, and more.
In addition, HPREC Provides collaborative opportunities for special education
directors to network, review current topics, share information, and continue to
learn as professionals.
Contact: Dana Stoltz Gray or
Shari Zimmer @ 575.445.7090.
Related Services
HPREC employees twenty highly
qualified related service providers who work in member districts.
The services they provide include:
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Audiology
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Social Work
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Speech Therapy
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Occupational Therapy
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Physical Therapy
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School Psychology
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Transition Counseling
Related Service
Providers' Mission
Our mission as related service providers is to
empower students through collaboration with school personnel and families by
creating positive educational experiences, promoting, and enhancing the desire
and ability for life-long learning. We will do this by bringing our strengths,
expertise, and unique personalities into the educational community while
participating in a collaborative effort. We do this so that we can assist the
educational system in providing to students a free, appropriate education and
tools to allow them to become functional adults.
For more information
on HPREC's Related Services, click
here.
Contact:
Dana Stoltz Gray @ 575.445.7090.
Response to Intervention (RtI)
HPREC has developed a series of
professional development trainings and materials to assist educators
to understand Response to Interventions. These trainings are
designed for administrators, general education teachers, and special
education personnel.
Response to Intervention Resources
Contact: Dana Stoltz Gray or
Shari Zimmer @ 575.445.7090.
Transition
HPREC provides school districts and
charter schools with services designed to meet federal, state and local
transition requirements, as well as provides technical assistance and training
to educators and parents. Working with the Transition Outcomes Project, HPREC
works with member districts to ensure quality transition plans for all students
with IEPS, as well as ensuring that the district is meeting the transition State
Performance Plan Indicator.
In addition, HPREC provides a transition
work-experience program for secondary students.
Contact:
Dana Stoltz Gray or
Shari Zimmer @ 575.445.7090.
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