Guidance Brief

Welcome to the OSDE-SES Topical Guidance Briefs page. This page provides access to expanded and specific guidance over a wide range of topics.

• Certificate Use
• Certification Pathways
• Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) considerations for student’s eligible in the primary category of Developmental Delay (DD)/Speech Language Impairment or Speech Language Impairment (SLI)
• HI/VI Teacher Consultant Role in the IEP Process
• Home Instruction, Home-Based, Home Bound - Whats the Difference
• Paraprofessional or Care Assistant Support
• Required Expenditures for Parentally Placed Private School Students
• Speech Language Pathology Assistant Certification and Re-Certification
• Suggested Roles for Proportionate Share Collaboration
• Summary of Performance

District Monitoring Tool - The district monitoring tool is used for student-level review of IDEA documents (e.g. RED, MEEGS, IEP, Written Notice, and Invitation to Meeting). It has a series of questions that are answered yes, no, or N/A to determine compliance for specific sections of the IDEA documents. It can be used by teachers for their own file review or by district special education staff in monitoring individual files.