I’m off to Amarillo tonight for my annual legal update at Region 16. Get the donuts ready!  For those of you who have never been there, I can assure you that R16 provides outstanding donuts.  I’d rank them #1 among the ESCs in that important category.  Great pizza up there in the Panhandle also. So you can see, I’ll be eating very healthy.

That has nothing to do with the Toolbox, but it’s on my mind. So there.

As to the Toolbox, here’s a reminder: the Toolbox offers ten tools that are available for you to deal with disruptive students appropriately while serving them in the LRE and maintaining a safe campus.  Four of those tools involve a “change of placement.”

In the Toolbox training we divide changes of placement into the “educational” and the “disciplinary.”  You can propose an educational change of placement when the student’s behavior is a manifestation of disability.  There are two tools in the box that are educational changes of placement—Tool #2 is used when you have parent consent; Tool #3 is used when you don’t.

Tool #6 is a disciplinary change of placement. You use that one only when the behavior is not a manifestation of disability.

Then there is Tool #5—a removal due to “special circumstances.” That one should also be characterized as “disciplinary” although it can be used regardless of how the manifestation determination comes out.

Sound interesting?  I hope so. Our firm provides a full day training on the Toolbox, complete with your very own Toolbox book, some nifty laminated charts and a generally informative and enjoyable day.  Let me hear from you if you’re interested.

DAWG BONE: TEN TOOLS. FOUR WAYS TO CHANGE PLACEMENT.

 File this one under: SPECIAL EDUCATION DISCIPLINE

Tomorrow: An ADA case…