Teaching · Special Education

A support team meeting that ends with a plan.

Set the time, invite the family, assign roles and lay out the items in problem-solving order. The builder gives each item a clock time, dates the follow-up and points out anything the meeting would miss.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Special Education toolkit, $99 for 100 items.

The agenda builder

One agenda per meeting, under a student code. The example meeting is 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 meeting, a timed agenda in problem-solving order, roles and data to bring, the follow-up date and the gaps to fill.
Who it is for
Facilitators of student support or problem-solving teams: counselors, MTSS and special education coordinators, administrators and teachers.
Format
Browser builder used before each meeting. One saved agenda per meeting; printed with the summary or as a blank agenda; 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.
everyone at the table, the data in the middle
Drawn for this page. A support team meeting goes best when the family is at the table and the data, not opinions, drive the plan.

How to use it

  1. Start an agenda with the student code and the meeting date.
  2. Set the start time, length and who is invited.
  3. Assign roles and choose the data to bring.
  4. Lay out the items with minutes and leads.
  5. Print the agenda and send it ahead.

Build an agenda

What the builder is for

Problem-solving order

Strengths first, then the concern stated so it can be measured, then what the data show and why it may be happening. Only then the plan, how progress will be checked and when the team meets again. Skipping straight to strategies is the most common way these meetings stall.

Evaluations are not on hold

Under IDEA, a school cannot use a support team or response to intervention process to delay or deny an evaluation for a student suspected of having a disability. A parent may ask for an evaluation at any time.

What this is not

An agenda builder. The plan itself, the notes and any referral are the team’s work.

Sources

  1. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, Memo 11-07 (2011): a response to intervention process cannot be used to delay or deny an evaluation.
  2. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regulations, 34 CFR 300.301(b) (parent may request an initial evaluation) and 300.503 (prior written notice).
  3. Center on Multi-Tiered System of Supports (American Institutes for Research), Essential Components of MTSS: data-based decision making.
  4. Bransford, J. D., and Stein, B. S. (1993), The IDEAL Problem Solver, 2nd ed., on defining the problem before choosing solutions.

The example student and meeting are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.