You Should Know/Key Links

SESIS

• Arbitration decision regarding IEP meetings held during prep period
• Arbitration decision regarding time for SESIS
• Latest information on the SESIS arbitration
• Time for SESIS

Know your rights

• Know your rights Q&A for speech teachers
• Principal's Weekly on mandated services and ramifications for not providing services
• Professional activities and administrative duties — answers to your questions
• Retention and excessing rights
• School coverages
• Shortage area procedures and processes
• Tenure and ratings

Other issues

• Evaluations
  As a rule, speech teachers do not have the time to provide complete initial evaluations at their schools.
• Speech and Language Progress Reports
  The DOE requires that students receiving related services must be re-evaluated every three years to assess whether they still need those services. Here are answers to common questions about preparing these "triennial examinations" for students in your caseload.

DOE documents

• Principal's Weekly on mandated services and ramifications for not providing services
• Related services: Frequency, duration and location of related services (2010 memo)
• Random Moment Time Study
  Members may receive an email asking them to provide information about their activities at a particular point in time. Learn more about the purpose of this email and what you are expected to do.
• Reminders about Special Education Service Providers, Principals’ Weekly, Dec. 11, 2003
  Please be reminded that Special Education Teacher Support Services and Related Services (e.g., speech, counseling) are legally mandated services for students with disabilities that are necessary to support their progress in schools.
• Children First Reforms in Special Education, effective July 1, 2007
  This correspondence provides updated information regarding the evaluation and placement of students with disabilities and students suspected of being disabled and also serves as a reminder regarding current practice for evaluation processes and IEP Team meetings. UFT summary of the DOE memo is attached as page 1.
• Related Services: Frequency, Duration, and Location of Related Services, May 26, 2010
  This correspondence provides updated information regarding the frequency, duration and location of related services.