• Parent involvement is important to our teams!
• Students and their parents have a number of resources for assistance via parents, liaisons, teachers, andadministrators!
• Parental input into district/school/student planning for special education services is always welcome!

• All Individual Education Programs (IEPs) and Written Notices
• All Permission for Placement and Permission to Evaluate forms
• Quarterly progress reports/report cards
• Psycho-educational Evaluation Reports

• Deal with the whole child and result in programs that promote students' successful experience and full life-preparedness. Promote student growth and learning, including areas of the general curriculum and State Standards.
• Support students in moving toward understanding of self and others, with appreciation for their own and all people's unique skills, talents and diversity.

These can be accomplished through appropriate and meaningful individual student plans, placement in environments conductive to growth, and with the assistance of well-trained, compassionate instructors, who articulate with all our partners and have opportunities for professional growth and mutual support.

Our staff serve as advocates to students, families and other staff. Networks, partnerships and flexibility ensure the coordination of services necessary to meet the challenges facing student with special needs. Central to this is the involvement, participation and partnership with parents/guardians of students to further enhance students' school experience.

Special education means specially designed instruction to meet the unique needs of a student with a disability. Services will be made available to meet the needs of all students with disabilities within the responsibility of the district who have been determined to be eligible and need special education and related services in order to benefit from their educational program.

Students with disabilities are those children evaluated as having: