{"id":6722,"date":"2020-08-11T14:27:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T22:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/?p=6722"},"modified":"2020-08-11T14:27:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T22:27:29","slug":"letter-to-kpbsd-special-education-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2020\/08\/11\/letter-to-kpbsd-special-education-families\/","title":{"rendered":"New School Year Letter to KPBSD Special Education Families"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2020\/08\/2020-08-11-KPBSD-Special-Education-1024x577.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6723\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p><em>info:<\/em> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Read about the three options to attend school during the the 2020-2021 school year (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/2020\/07\/23\/weekly-update-three-kpbsd-school-solutions-during-a-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read about the three options available to every KPBSD student to attend school during the 2020-2021 school year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p>August 11, 2020<br \/>Dear Parents and Guardians,<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District (KPBSD) is\ncommitted to turn challenges into opportunities, and ensure that every student\nwith a disability will have access to their peers as well as core instruction,\ncurriculum, and learning. With the opening of the 2020-2021 school year, we\nwant you to be reassured that KPBSD learned through the experiences from this\npast spring, and there will be increased rigor and accountability with service\ndelivery and instruction for all learners, including students with\ndisabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>KPBSD Student Support Services is preparing and\nplanning to provide an excellent education to our students with Individual\nEducation Programs (IEPs) when school opens in August. With this comes\nincreased measures to ensure the health and safety for all students and staff. The\nspring of 2020 raised a challenge that no one was prepared for when COVID19 closed\nschools to students. We acknowledge that emergency remote learning was implemented\nwith varying degrees of success throughout our school district, the state, and\ncountry. <\/p>\n\n\n<p>Now more than ever, communication and collaboration\nbetween teachers, parents and students is vital. To that end, please note:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>We will continue\nto encourage meeting options that reduce exposure and risks <\/li><li>Meetings should\nbe held via video conferencing (Zoom or Skype) or telephonically <\/li><li>Staff will reach\nout to you to determine the best way for your student\u2019s meetings to occur<\/li><li>Your student\u2019s\nspecial education case manager, in partnership with you, will construct a remote\nlearning plan that will address service delivery, accommodations, related\nservices and supports in order to help your child make progress towards their\nIEP goals <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p>Our school district has a long history of turning\nchallenges into opportunities. Successfully educating over 8,800 students\ndistributed amongst 42 schools of varying grade level configurations and\nenrollment, six different school calendars, and spread across 25,600 square\nmiles, encompassing 17 distinct communities (of which four are fly in only) is\none example of how KPBSD overcomes challenges. <\/p>\n\n\n<p>Plans will account for changes in education delivery\nmodes if COVID19 risk levels change to high in communities or schools, and as\nwe navigate the 2020-2021 school year. If you believe an IEP meeting is\nnecessary, please reach out and communicate this with your child\u2019s school team.\nWe are here for you.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Together, we each must acknowledge that this school\nyear will be different from any school year in the past.&nbsp; Together, as partners, we will help set students\nand staff up for a successful school year. KPBSD will work closely with our\nfamilies and students, in order to meet their individual and unique needs. By becoming\neven more resilient, creative, and flexible in this time of uncertainty, we are\nconfident that each of us can and will navigate through this global pandemic,\nand most importantly, quality education and support for our students with\ndisabilities will occur.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>It is our intent, desire, and mission to support our\nstudents and families. If you need more information or have questions or\nconcerns, kindly contact your school team or Student Support Services office at\n907-714-8881.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Kind regards,<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Amy Hagen, Director of Student Support Services, together with the Student Support Services Administrative Team<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"KPBSD Student Support Services webpage (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/departments.aspx?id=42\" target=\"_blank\">KPBSD Student Support Services webpage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2020\/08\/2020-08-KPBSD-COVID19-letter-to-Special-Education-parents-and-guardians.pdf\">August 2020 KPBSD-COVID19-New School Year Letter-to-Special-Education-parents-and-guardians<br \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2020\/08\/2020-08-KPBSD-COVID19-letter-to-Special-Education-parents-and-guardians.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>info: Read about the three options available to every KPBSD student to attend school during the 2020-2021 school year August 11, 2020Dear Parents and Guardians, The Kenai Peninsula Borough School &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2020\/08\/11\/letter-to-kpbsd-special-education-families\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New School Year Letter to KPBSD Special Education Families&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[615,961],"class_list":["post-6722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kpbsd-district-stories","tag-kpbsd-student-support-services","tag-special-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}