Common use of Individualized Education Programs Clause in Contracts

Individualized Education Programs. (IEPs) a. Beginning with the 2007-2008 school year, if specific ear-marked funding for IEP writing is not available from the Bureau of Special Education, PA Department of Education, the District will provide each special education teacher and related service professionals who have the responsibility for developing IEPs for their students in their classroom or on their caseloads with ten (10) hours of IEP writing time per school year at the standard teacher workshop rate. Teachers and staff eligible for this IEP writing time include all special education classroom teachers, itinerant hearing and vision support teachers, speech and language specialists and occupational and physical therapists. IEP development hours are to be completed outside of the standard school day. All IEP development and writing as part of this activity must take place between August 15th and June 15th of the school year for which payment is being requested. All requests for payment must be approved by the building principal or the special education teacher’s immediate supervisor and must be submitted annually no later than June 30th. b. Teachers assigned to the Gifted Center (grades K through 8) shall continue to utilize two weeks in June for IEP conferences and IEP writing. No substitution or additional payment (workshop rates, etc.) shall be provided or required for teachers assigned to the Gifted Center. 2. When a special education certified teacher is asked to write additional IEPs by a PSE Administrator as a result of the absence of a certified special educator, then that teacher will be compensated with two hours at the current workshop rate for each IEP. Prior administrative approval and documentation of such IEP writing is required and shall be submitted to PSE no later than June 30th of that school year. 3. Parent conferences for IEP purposes shall not be held during the involved special education teacher’s preparation period, except in an extraordinary circumstance. 4. IEP parent conferences shall normally be held during the school day, utilizing the substitution provisions of Article 58, Substitution Services by Full-Time Teachers, and the loss of preparation period provisions of Article 129, Compensation for Loss of Preparation Periods. These loss of preparation period provisions do not apply to a preparation period of a special education teacher, should such a preparation period be interrupted or lost (under the extraordinary circumstance referred to in Section 2. of this Article) due to participation by that special education teacher in an IEP parent conference. 5. Parent conferences shall not be held after school hours, except in extraordinary circumstances. In such instances, teachers shall be compensated for after-school-hours parent conferences at the evening school hourly rate. 6. At least one (1) regular education teacher shall attend and participate in IEP meetings.

Individualized Education Programs. (IEPs) a. Beginning with the 2007-2008 school year, if specific ear-marked funding for IEP writing is not available from the Bureau of Special Education, PA Department of Education, the District will provide each special education teacher and related service professionals who have the responsibility for developing IEPs for their students in their classroom or on their caseloads with ten (10) hours of IEP writing time per school year at the standard teacher workshop rate. Teachers and staff eligible for this IEP writing time include all special education edu- cation classroom teachers, itinerant hearing and vision support teachers, speech and language lan- guage specialists and occupational and physical therapists. IEP development hours are to be completed outside of the standard school day. All IEP development and writing as part of this activity must take place between August 15th and June 15th of the school year for which payment is being requested. All requests for payment must be approved by the building principal or the special education teacher’s immediate supervisor and must be submitted annually no later than June 30th.30th.‌ b. Teachers assigned to the Gifted Center (grades K through 8) shall continue to utilize two weeks in June for IEP conferences and IEP writing. No substitution or additional payment (workshop rates, etc.) shall be provided or required for teachers assigned to the Gifted Center. 2. When a special education certified teacher is asked to write additional IEPs by a the PSE Administrator Special Education Specialist, PSE Program Officer or the PSE Senior Program Officer, as a result of the absence of a certified special educator, then that teacher will be compensated with two hours at the current workshop rate for each IEP. Prior administrative approval and documentation of such IEP writing is required and shall be submitted to PSE no later than June 30th of that school year. 3. Parent conferences for IEP purposes shall not be held during the involved special education teacher’s preparation period, except in an extraordinary circumstance. 4. IEP parent conferences shall normally be held during the school day, utilizing the substitution provisions of Article 58, Substitution Services by Full-Time Teachers, and the loss of preparation prepara- tion period provisions of Article 129, Compensation for Loss of Preparation Periods. These loss of preparation period provisions do not apply to a preparation period of a special education teacher, should such a preparation period be interrupted or lost (under the extraordinary circumstance circum- stance referred to in Section 2. of this Article) due to participation by that special education teacher in an IEP parent conference. 5. Parent conferences shall not be held after school hours, except in extraordinary circumstances. In such instances, teachers shall be compensated for after-school-hours parent conferences at the evening school hourly rate. 6. At least one (1) regular education teacher shall attend and participate in IEP meetings.