Teaching · Special Education

One shared page for the teacher and the SLP: every action, one owner, one date.

Write down what the teacher asked for, the goals the student is working on and the classroom strategies you agreed. Log each contact with the action it produced, who owns it and when it is due. The summary shows what is still open, for whom, and what has slipped.

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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 collaboration log

One log per student, added to over the year. Use initials or a code, never a name. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Special EducationAlso for Teaching · Speech & Language$19 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
For each student, the teacher’s request, the goals carried into class, the agreed strategies and a dated contact log, with a summary of open actions by person, what is overdue as of the latest contact and the strategies in place.
Who it is for
Classroom and special education teachers and speech-language pathologists who share students, and the paraprofessionals who carry strategies into class.
Format
Browser log with a contact table. Several saved records; printed with the summary or as a blank paper form; CSV of the contact log; export and import a file.
Access
$19 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; also listed in the Speech & Language space (teachers’ requests for speech-language help).
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
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Drawn for this page. Collaboration works best on one shared page: each action written once, with one owner and a date.

How to use it

  1. Start a record with the student’s initials or a code and the date the request came in.
  2. Write the teacher’s request in their words and tick where in the day it shows.
  3. For a student with an IEP, note the communication goals the class can support.
  4. Tick the strategies you agreed, then log each contact with its action, owner and due date.
  5. Mark actions done as they happen; print the summary before a team meeting.

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What the log is for

Why log it

Teachers and speech-language pathologists usually meet in short, scattered moments. A log keeps every agreed action in one place with one owner and a date, so the strategy the teacher was going to try is not forgotten, and the team can show what was done before a meeting or a reevaluation.

Overdue as of when

The summary counts an action as overdue when its due date is earlier than the most recent contact you logged, so the record reads the same whenever it is opened or printed. Add a contact row when you check in to bring the date forward.

Two titles, one log

The catalog listed a teacher and SLP collaboration log for special education and a form for a teacher’s speech-language request. The request is the first row of a collaboration, so one page does both. Notes about a student are education records: keep them factual. Records use a code, never a name, and stay in this browser.

Sources

  1. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Practice Portal: Collaboration and Teaming; and Roles and Responsibilities of Speech-Language Pathologists in Schools (2010 professional issues statement) (asha.org).
  2. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regulations, 34 CFR 300.321 (IEP team), 300.320(a)(4) (supports for school personnel) and 300.34(c)(15) (speech-language pathology services).
  3. Friend, M., and Cook, L. (2017). Interactions: Collaboration Skills for School Professionals (8th ed.). Boston: Pearson.
  4. Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 34 CFR Part 99 (education records and who may see them).

The example student is made up. The log records collaboration between staff; it is not an IEP, does not change services and holds no state rules. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.