Regular ed. teacher participation on IEP teams (ECSE)

For those of you who attended the ECSE Leadership Meeting in Stevens Point on February 10^th, 2012, you may recall that we identified a need for clarification on who (e.g., LEA teacher, child care teacher, Head Start teacher, etc.) could serve as the regular education teacher on an IEP team for children receiving ECSE services.  In response to this discussion, a decision tree and module have been developed for determining regular education participation on the IEP team for children receiving Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) services.  Both are available on the DPI ECSE web page as follows:

 

• Decision Tree: http://dpi.wi.gov/sped/pdf/ec-reg-ed-participation.pdf
• Module: http://dpi.wi.gov/sped/av/ec-iep-reg-ed/player.html

 

 

Additionally, there was discussion regarding the documentation required to invite a non-LEA teacher to participate on the IEP team. The form I-1-C (http://dpi.wi.gov/sped/pdf/form-i-1-c.pdf) was developed to assist the LEA in documenting the request to invite others with knowledge or expertise to an IEP meeting.

 

The LEA should use form I-1-C for the following purposes:

1. To invite the community-based appropriately licensed regular early childhood teacher of the child to serve as the regular education teacher representative on the IEP team.  Please see http://dpi.wi.gov/sped/pdf/ec-reg-ed-participation.pdf to determine if a teacher is appropriately licensed.

 

2. To invite the community-based teacher of the child, even if he/she is not appropriately licensed, to the IEP team meeting.

 

3. To invite another individual with knowledge or special expertise regarding the child to the IEP team meeting.

 

Finally, to assist the LEA in documenting the request to invite Birth to 3 representative(s) to the initial IEP meeting, the form I-1-B (http://dpi.wi.gov/sped/pdf/form-i-1-b.pdf) was developed.

 

Additional information on regular education teacher participation on IEP teams for children receiving ECSE services and forms I-1-B and I-1-C can be found at http://dpi.wi.gov/ec/ecspedhm.html.

 

As always, please feel free to contact me with any questions.

 

Best,

Erin

 

Erin Arango-Escalante

Early Childhood Special Education Consultant

Department of Public Instruction

125 South Webster Street

Madison, Wisconsin  53707-7841

608-267-9172

FAX 608-267-3746