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ESS director outlines compliance, Synergy integration and transition supports for students with disabilities
Summary
New Exceptional Student Services director described migration to Synergy for IEPs and service tracking, re-established monthly interagency meetings for preschool referrals, and emphasized post-school outcome surveys and transition planning for students approaching adulthood.
The district—Exceptional Student Services director summarized early priorities after three months on the job: consolidating IEP and service records in Synergy, ensuring daily checks of special-education data integrity, improving parent and student survey response rates for mandated state reporting, and rebuilding cross-agency monthly meetings with Head Start and other local partners to manage referrals and transitions.
She said Synergy—service-tracking will require ESS staff to log minutes (for example, OT minutes) and notes into each student record to avoid compensatory-service liabilities at year end. The director described the state's October 1 data collection and the post-school outcomes survey (due at month-end) as critical to funding and compliance.
Board members thanked the director and encouraged inclusion of ESS students in district communications and district walkthroughs; they recommended continuing professional development and leveraging outside supports such as rehabilitation research centers and transition specialists to improve postsecondary outcomes.
Ending: ESS staff will continue to clean data, increase parent survey participation and coordinate transition services for students approaching post-school life.
