I have attached the department professional development plan for you to review. It summarizes our work from last year and how we will connect it to our ongoing work this year. We will be working closely with Dr. Gloria Frohlick Clark who will be providing facilitation, coaching and training to our department and the OT/PT department. Gloria recently retired from the D.E. where she was on the state early childhood leadership team as a consultant for 0-5 services. She is now available to do private practice. You will meet her on Sept. 10!
As we have learned from Jerry Stremel's presentation, Iowa is NOT doing well with special education (IEP kids). We've gotten away from a focus on special ed. kids and need to build skills and invest time in assisting teachers so that IFSP/IEP children will make progress on their outcomes/goals. Do we have the right interventions? Do we have data that tells if we need to change interventions? We are all responsible to help make a difference! More to come on that thought!
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