Group G: Continuum of Services in Cluster

Participants: Polly Zagone, Ellen Bates, Amy Estep, Jonquil Vann, David Degudo

Facilitator: Carl Smith.

PROBLEM:  Students are moving from school to school resulting in long bus rides; no sense of community; a distrust created for parents and students towards staff; and inconsistent staff.

RECOMMENDATION:  Reduce building to building transitions.

Working Well:

• In My Control:
  • Weekly Therapist meetings to discuss B rooms.
  • Fragile vs. External B Rooms.
  • Consistent parent teacher contact
  • Providing Content L.C. courses per needs- Grant HS Specific
  • CPS in B rooms and Pioneer *
  • Staffing Assignments
  • Mainstreaming
• Outside of My Control:
  • Fragile vs External – Administrators make final decisions
  • LRE Guidance Team to gate keep.

Does Not Exist or Working Poorly:

• In My Control:
  • Point person with knowledge of B-Rooms/Pioneer/General Ed. When determining placement.
  • Mainstreaming.
• Outside of My Control:
  • More classrooms
  • Like services per cluster
  • Step-Down classrooms from Pioneer in each cluster.
  • SLC- A Classrooms with ASD support K-12
  • 2 Types of Life Skills Classes- Low A & High Functioning
  • Funding and Staff limitation
  • Fragile vs. External B rooms.  #’s make it challenging
  • Placing leadership roles appropriately.

* There was some disagreement about the insufficiency and inconsistency of CPS training for B classroom staff and most Pioneer staff and some concern about risking fidelity to the CPS model.