Spring BUUSD Special Services Community Forum

Barre City Elementary Middle School, May 2nd 2025

Overview of the Agenda

Extended School Year (ESY) Services

What Caregivers Can Expect: End-of-Year

What Caregivers Can Expect: Summer (10 minutes)

What Caregivers Can Expect: Fall 2025 (10 minutes)

Questions/Wrap (20 minutes)

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Rising 9th Grade Transition

What to Expect

Preparing for a Successful Start at SHS in order to:

1. Support a smooth academic and social transition
2. Collaborate with families and middle school teams
3. Address individual needs for success at SHS

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Rising 9th Grade Transition (Cont.)

January: Middle School Special Educators completed comprehensive forms providing data and information for every rising 9th grade student

Feb/March: MS/HS teams met with special education representatives to discuss math placement for students; and literacy/English placements

• Consideration for needs of classroom placement cross referenced with IEP goals and service needs

April: SHS Special Services Dept. met and completed service tool - placing students in scheduled service blocks related to IEP service needs

Rising 9th Grade Transition (Cont.)

Early May: SHS team reviews service blocks, finalizes placements; SHS admin team works on master schedule

Mid-May: Internal school teams - Middle and High School special educators will meet to review services, blocks, class placements; answer final questions, review IEP needs, additional information

May/June : Transition meetings with parents/caregivers

• 20 minute meetings: Review recommendations for IEP services tied to SHS service delivery model; discuss SHS programming, answer questions

August: SHS New Student Orientation (prior to official first day of school)

Rising 9th Grade Transition (Cont.)

August: Caregivers will receive welcome letter from their case manager

• Case managers may be providing some services
• Special educators will be providing services to students based on expertise and fit to services

Extended School Year Programming (ESY)

What is ESY?

• ESY are specialized educational programs provided beyond the regular school year to support students with disabilities. ESY is designed to help eligible students maintain critical skills, prevent significant regression, and ensure continued progress toward their Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals.
• GOAL: to support access to education in Fall, given summer gap

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Schedule and Dates:

June 30th-July 17th

830am-12:30pm

PreK: 8:30am-11:30am (1 session)

Monday-Thursday

PreK (Tuesday-Thursday)

Extended School Year (ESY cont.)

Eligibility Process:

• Progress Monitoring throughout the year
• Gap in Services informs amount of recoup/regression
• February
• Next Year (Winter & February)
• March/April: Analyze data - recommend based on meeting criteria
• April/May: Determine need for amount of services based on data
• April/May: Meet with Team/Caregivers: provide recommendation for IEP

Eligibility decisions: should always be data-driven. IEP teams must rely on objective information, such as:

• Progress monitoring data
• Skill mastery data from the current IEP goals
• Observational notes and teacher input
• Parent-reported information
• Results from formative assessments, including skill retention checklists or curriculum-based measurements

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Available programs and services:

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Length:

• Full day if meet criteria
• Drive In Services

Type of Direct Service:

• Math
• Literacy
• Speech/Language
• SEL
• Life skills/Independent living Skills

ESY: Spaulding Educational Alternative (SEA)

Extended School Year:

• Specifically designed to address the goals and skills of a student's IEP.
• Skills are addressed in a manner to align with student credit needs (credit recovery).
• Possible for a student to become “caught up”

Additional Supports:

• Meals and social/emotional support
• Activities that align with students’ identified needs
• No clinical supports for students during ESY
• Hands-on and experiential learning in smaller environment

End of Year Expectations

• Individualized Plans Updated for new school year
• Behavior support plans, data, and communication to new teams
• Evaluations: Completed, Delayed, New
• 9th grade schedules and services

Summer Expectations: Kindergarten-12th

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• Availability of Staff
• Professional Staff are not available for until after pre-service for meetings and consultations (August
• Crisis Meetings will be scheduled within first 2 weeks of school, as availability allows)

Administrators:

• Preparing for the upcoming school year

Evaluations

• Evaluations that are not completed by June 20th (with deadline beyond per AOE Regs)
• Summer Evaluation Requests
• Impact/Necessary Team members

Summer Expectations: Pre-K

• CIS Transition Meetings will be held
• Administrators will meet with teams
• Evaluation Requests: Meet same regulations for IEP per AOE regulations
• Enrollment: will provide general information regarding options; final decisions for summer requests will be made with team members in August

Administrators:

• Work on curriculum
• Set Up Databases for School Year
• Plan Professional Development

Preparing for the Upcoming Year

SEA:

• All information will be available through email and Infinite Campus
• Scheduling and programming will be available on the school website throughout summer
• Info for rising 9th graders will be given to students middle school case manager

What to Expect: Fall/Start of School Year

• Pre Service: Welcome letters from Case Managers
• IEP meetings scheduled (as needed) after first 2 weeks of school
• First 4-6 weeks focused on skill assessment, recoupment, goal directed skill work
• Newsletter from Special Services with Updates from Each School (End of First Quarter)

BUUSD

Professional Development Plan

2025-2026

Next Steps

Year-Long PD plans are in development for:

• Special Educators
• Paraprofessionals (WCMH)
• Behavior Specialists/Behavior Interventionists/Student Support Specialists (GMBC)
• Occupational/Physical Therapists
• Speech/Language Pathologists

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