Today was our district-wide SE meeting, which was held at the middle school. Of course, I've been to those every year since I started working in education, but this would be my first one here at Tatum. The ones in the past usually lasted anywhere from two and a half to three hours, and of course, they were long and boring.
The first thing I noticed about this meeting was that there are not many individuals working in SE in the district; there was no more than 20 people attending the meeting- LISD usually had anywhere between 75-100 SE employees attending. So, due to it being a smaller district, Tatum's meeting was a lot more personable than Longview's.
I took a lot of notes, but there's not too much difference between the way Tatum does things in SE compared to Longview; Tatum seems to be ahead of the curve, so to speak, than Longview is, but Longview-LHS could get there if they'd start preparing and doing things early (like right now) to get ready for the school year instead of waiting until the last possible minute to get things done. Again, I know that there is a difference with Tatum being much smaller than Longview is, and having fewer students to work with, but if the system is in place and the system works, then no matter how many kids you have within that system, there shouldn't be many problems or difficulties.
The main thing I got out of the meeting? Archiving- teachers should ARCHIVE everything within the system.
We talked about IEPs and accommodations, and since I've worked in Inclusion for the last 7 or 8 years, one thing I do not have to worry about anymore is getting those to each teacher- I helped this past year put in a system where the teachers could pull up the necessary documents on Skyward, and I still feel this is the best way to get those to the teachers- However, Tatum has their process, and since I don't believe that Tatum does inclusion (they have resource classes I think) or even a BAC, their process is probably what best fits their system.
Anyway, the meeting lasted until 11:15, then we went to lunch. We came back at 12:15 and the teachers attended a gradebook workshop while we worked on all of the bulletin boards.
I think it looks pretty good-
Also, note to myself: Remember this letter:
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