Marie Mackrell

The first week of school is very busy. This year I even tried to go into school a few days ahead of time to get a look at the sixth grade files. We usually are not assigned our caseload until the schedules for the students are determined. We have two sixth grade teams at our school. A special education teacher is assigned to each team. It seems as though once the caseloads are determined it is a mad rush to get the accommodation lists in order. Our school did something different this year. Instead of having the special education teachers walk all over the building trying to get the elective teachers to sign the SE-34/accommodation list, our department head set up a time and location for elective teachers of all grade levels to come to sign the form. It saved a great deal of time for the special education teachers. I would say within a 40 minute time period, I had all the signatures I needed and I didn't have to walk all over the building to find teachers for their signatures. It was a great way to streamline the process and an easy way to conference with the elective teachers about the students they would have in their classrooms.