Teaching · Special Education

Count the days. Meet the deadline. Answer the two questions.

Enter this year’s removals and the one proposed. The organizer totals the school days, flags a change of placement, dates the determination meeting from the decision and spells out what the team’s answers mean for the student.

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The determination organizer

One record per incident, under a student code. The example student and dates are made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Special Education$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
For each incident, the school days removed this year, whether the removal changes placement, the meeting deadline, the information considered and what the answers require next.
Who it is for
Special education case managers, administrators, school psychologists and IEP team members handling a disciplinary removal.
Format
Browser organizer filled in from the incident to the meeting. One saved record per incident; printed with the summary or as a blank form; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Special Education toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Special Education space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
12count the days, then ask two questions
Drawn for this page. The days decide whether a removal changes placement; the two questions decide what happens next.

How to use it

  1. Start a record with the student code and the incident date.
  2. List the earlier removals this school year in school days.
  3. Enter the days proposed and the date of the decision.
  4. At the meeting, mark the information considered and answer the two questions.
  5. Print the record for the student’s file.

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What the organizer is for

Change of placement

Under IDEA a removal is a change of placement when it lasts more than 10 consecutive school days, or when a series of removals totals more than 10 school days in a year, involves substantially similar behavior and, given the length, total time and closeness of the removals, forms a pattern. The school decides the pattern question case by case.

The two questions

Within 10 school days of the decision, the school, the parents and relevant IEP team members look at all relevant information in the file and ask whether the conduct was caused by, or had a direct and substantial relationship to, the disability, and whether it was the direct result of a failure to implement the IEP. A yes to either makes it a manifestation.

What this is not

An organizer for the federal steps in general terms. It is not legal advice and it does not make the determination: the team does. States and districts add their own procedures and forms.

Sources

  1. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regulations, 34 CFR 300.530 (authority of school personnel; manifestation determination; special circumstances; notification).
  2. 34 CFR 300.536 (change of placement because of disciplinary removals) and 300.532 (appeal).
  3. 34 CFR 300.504 (procedural safeguards notice, including on the date of a disciplinary change of placement).
  4. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Questions and Answers: Addressing the Needs of Children with Disabilities and IDEA’s Discipline Provisions (2022).

The example student and dates are made up. This page describes federal requirements in general terms; it is not legal advice. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.