WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS

Catching up on Special Education and Section 504

Issues include --

• The IDEA's results-based focus: how to measure progress
• Graduation and transition planning
• How the IDEA and NCLB work together and how they may conflict for students with disabilities -- MCAS, accommodations, research-based instruction, and other quandaries
• The “Goldilocks Conundrum” -- IEPs and Section 504 plans that offer too much. More is not better; sometimes less is more!
• Update on student discipline
• Effective IEP Team meetings: What are they and how to do them
• Writing IEPs: common pitfalls to avoid and practices to promote

Also, an update and highlights of new BSEA/OCR and court decisions

Presenters: Colby C. Brunt, Rebecca L. Bryant , and Miriam Kurtzig Freedman

******************************************************

Personnel Management Issues

• Hot Topics for Every Administrator
• Non-renewals, Suspensions & Dismissals
• Handling Complaints about Employees

Presenters: Robert G. Fraser and Joan L. Stein

******************************************************

Back by popular request . . . the musical tour!

13 costly mistakes that IEP and 504 Teams continue to make --
and how to break the habit! PART IV

• Examples drawn from our practice and experience
• Duty to provide a FAPE
• The effect of NCLB on IEPs and Section 504 Plans

Update on special education decisions and case law:

• BSEA/OCR and Massachusetts/First Circuit Court decisions
• Relevant Federal and Massachusetts DOE updates and advisories

Presenters: Andrea L. Bell, Miriam Kurtzig Freedman, and Nancy N. Nevils

******************************************************

Please click the following link for registration information SCM Seminars

Questions?
Contact Miriam Freedman or Maria Hardy at
(617) 542-6789 or Seminars@scmllp.com.

Stoneman, Chandler & Miller LLP is Proud to Present Our Fifth Annual Focused Seminar Series for the 2007-2008 School Year

Stoneman, Chandler & Miller LLP
is Proud to Present
Our Fifth Annual Focused Seminar Series
for the 2007-2008 School Year