Annual ARD committee meeting (Texas)
When to use: Use when you are walking into a Texas ARD committee's annual review meeting. The ARD committee is Texas's name for what IDEA calls the IEP team, governed by IDEA plus Texas 19 TAC §89.1050.
YOUR ARD MEETING GAME PLAN Prepared for: [Your child's name] | Annual ARD Committee Meeting | [Meeting date] Parent: [Your name] | School: [Your child's school] (Texas) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ AGENDA ITEMS TO RAISE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [ ] Progress on every current IEP goal, with the team showing me the data. [ ] Present levels of academic and functional performance for the upcoming year. [ ] Any new evaluation data or FIE (Full Individual Evaluation) updates the ARD committee is considering. [ ] Proposed new goals and the service grid for the upcoming year. [ ] Accommodations, supplementary aids, and any assistive technology. [ ] Placement decision (LRE) and the rationale, with TEA's LRE continuum in mind. [ ] If we cannot reach agreement today: a recess request to reconvene within 10 school days under Texas 19 TAC §89.1050(g). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ QUESTIONS TO ASK ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [ ] What does the progress data show on each current goal? Has the ARD committee documented progress narratively as well as quantitatively? [ ] If a goal was not met: what's the plan for the upcoming year? [ ] What is the LEA representative's authority at this meeting to commit district resources? [ ] How will progress be reported during the year? Texas requires regular progress reports under 19 TAC §89.1055. [ ] If we don't reach consensus today, what is the next step under 19 TAC §89.1050(g)? [ ] Will we receive the deliberations meeting notice in writing as required by 19 TAC §89.1050(a)? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TALKING POINTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [ ] "I want every goal to be measurable. Texas requires goals to be specific and measurable under 19 TAC §89.1055." [ ] "Under 19 TAC §89.1050(g), if the ARD committee cannot reach mutual agreement, we can recess and reconvene within 10 school days. I'd rather take the time to get this right than agree to something I'm not sure about." [ ] "I'm not signing the ARD document today. I want to take it home and review before I sign." [ ] "Please send me a written copy of the ARD report within the timeline required by district policy." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ YOUR RIGHTS IN THIS MEETING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [ ] Under Texas 19 TAC §89.1050, the ARD committee must include the parent, the student's general education teacher, special education teacher, LEA representative, someone who can interpret evaluation results, and the student where appropriate. [ ] Under 34 CFR 300.322, the school must provide reasonable advance written notice of the meeting. [ ] Under 34 CFR 300.321(a)(6), I can bring other individuals with knowledge or expertise about my child (advocates, attorneys, evaluators, family). [ ] Under 19 TAC §89.1050(g), if the ARD committee can't reach mutual agreement, we have the right to recess and reconvene within 10 school days. [ ] Under 34 CFR 300.300(a) and Texas practice, I do NOT have to sign the ARD document at the meeting. [ ] Under 34 CFR 300.503, any decision made by the ARD committee must be documented in Prior Written Notice. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THINGS TO BRING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [ ] The current ARD/IEP document and most recent progress reports. [ ] Work samples showing progress (or lack of progress) on specific goals. [ ] Any private evaluations or FIE updates from the past year. [ ] A written list of priorities and any specific service or placement changes you are requesting. [ ] A trusted second person (advocate, partner, friend) to take notes. [ ] This printed prep sheet.
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