The Toolbox is a full day program focusing on students with disabilities who are disruptive and/or violent. How do you maintain a safe school, while serving each student? What options do you have? In the Toolbox, we provide ten “tools” that empower campus administrators to comply with the law while serving students appropriately.
One of the tools is Tool #9—Leadership at the Non-Consensus ARD Meeting. We like to emphasize the role of the campus administrator as the logical and natural leader of the ARD meeting. So Tool #9 is very much about the skill set that this person must have. We think you generally have a pretty good inclination of when non-consensus is likely to happen, and encourage administrators to ask “the three questions” before allowing the meeting to end in a non-consensus posture.
The three questions are:
- Is this worth fighting over?
- Are we legally defensible?
- Are we united in our position?
In the Toolbox training we provide more perspective on how these questions should be answered. If you are interested in a day of Toolbox, just give me a buzz!
DAWG BONE: NOT EVERY FIGHT IS WORTH HAVING. NOT EVERY STANCE IS LEGALLY DEFENSIBLE. YOUR POSITION IS NOT ALWAYS THE SCHOOL’S POSITION.
Tomorrow: We look at another Pledge of Allegiance case—one involving a raised fist and a paddled student.