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Special Education District Advisory Committee (SEDAC)
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The charge of the Special Education Care District Advisory Committee shall be to:
- Advise the Board of Education about attitudes, opinions and issues significant to the Special Education community
- Hold monthly meetings open to the public and provide Spanish translation when needed
- Act as a conduit for the flow of information between the Special Education community at large and the Board of Education.
- Continue to bring parent’s questions and concerns to the BOE regarding curriculum and programs in math, literacy, reading and autism.
- Provide a forum for district staff and other speakers to share information relevant to the Special Education community
- To enhance District-wide outreach to Special Education parents, continue the practice of rotating meeting locations to include school sites.
- To address topical concerns utilizing subcommittees, either Ad Hoc and/or Standing Committees, as defined by the Brown Act.
- Continue to review the Special Education budget with the District’s Chief Financial Officer utilizing CFO’s recently created Special Education specific reporting format
Charges for 2022-23 school year:
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- Transition support: The AdHoc Committee could work to support families at transition points by the following:
- Organize parent meetings at key times in the year between families that are in transition with families that have completed particular transition points.
- Work to organize a neuro-diverse college fair for high school students and families
- College and life, which may include information about testing accommodations, colleges, universities and trade school programs/support
- Social Justice: The AdHoc Committee could work to support social justice with the following: This work will be broken into subgroups
- Electives
- Gather data/insights around needs across the district with elective access for special education students (eg. content, scheduling, etc)
- Develop recommendations where appropriate to improve inclusion and access
- Look at the creation of inclusive class descriptions at the middle to high school level to better inform students and parents.
- PTSA Representation and Support
- Review existing PTSA programming for students at middle and high school level. Look where deficiencies in inclusion exist
- Recommendations to improve inclusion in PTSA programming (eg. carnivals, picnics)
- Expanding Special Education PTSA representation at school and district level
- SMMUSD DE&I
- Identify opportunities to increase collaboration with SMMUSD
- Developed in partnership is DEI team
- Human Development Education: The AdHoc Committee could work to support this education with the following:
- Review when/where students in special day classes are taught human development at the elementary, middle, and high school level to determine if there is an ongoing need for this education
- Look at how this could be transferred to educators in the district where there is a need.
- Communications Structure Review: The AdHoc Committee could work on the following around communications:
- Review current communication practices with Special Education families, assess how well they are working
- Develop a set of best practices for consistent, effective communication in the future
- Day one implementation of medical accommodations, particularly around transitions
- Transition support: The AdHoc Committee could work to support families at transition points by the following: