Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Contents

New Items

Business Plus Administrative Software??- for All Administrators
iPads and ChromeBooks Frequently Asked Questions??- for All Administrators

Previous Items

Releasing Special Education Records??- for Principals, Attendance Clerks, Registrars, Secretaries, Counselors, Special Education Staff
Special Education Kick-Off??- for Principals and Special Education Staff

Attendance Clerks Meetings??- for All Administrators

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Business Plus Administrative Software

From Robert Young
Every administrator using the Business Plus Financial software in some capacity needs to have a back-up administrator named that can perform administrative duties in your absence. These back-ups need to be identified to the TIS Department so that User IDs and passwords can be assigned. At this time, only thirteen administrators have named backups set up in the system. Should you be absent unexpectedly throughout the school year, actions such as expenditures and budget transfers will no longer be able to take place. Please send an email to support@kckps.org to assign or verify your secondary approver for financial transactions. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

iPads and ChromeBooks Frequently Asked Questions

From Joe Fives
A list of frequently asked questions regarding the iPad and ChromeBook Deployment.

http://tinyurl.com/kcktechfaq

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Releasing Special Education Records

From Michelle Colvin
The Special Education Cooperative is required by state reporting requirements to provide documentation when students with exceptionalities move or leave the district. This includes early childhood special education, gifted, and speech only students. Please forward a copy of all requests for records for students with exceptionalities to Jennifer Prock (jennifer.prock@kckps.org) in the Special Education Department. The fax number is 913-627-5688.

Schools should not release special education records.

The special education department maintains students??? ???official??? records. The records used by building-based special education staff are working files and do not necessarily include all required documents. The Special Education Department is required to authenticate all releases and requests for special education records and maintain a record of such requests.

Do not assume that if a request is placed in the 304 record that it will be forwarded to the Special Education. Department.

If you are contacted by a Special Education staff member regarding the disposition of student records, please make every effort to assist. In addition, be sure the leave code in SILK accurately states the school district and/or city and state to which the student has moved.

Please follow these guidelines throughout the school year.

If you have any questions about special education records or the process for releasing records, contact Jennifer Prock in the Special Education Records Department at 627-5674.

Special Education Kick-Off

From Michelle Colvin
On Thursday, August 11, Special Education will host professional learning for all Special Education Staff in Rooms 131, 132, and 133 at Central Office according to the following schedule:

8:00 to 11:30 – Related Service Providers (APE, MTs, OTs, PTs, School Psychologists, Social Workers, SLPs) and Paraprofessionals

12:30 to 4:00 – All Special Education Teachers

Please email Michelle Colvin should you have any questions.

Attendance Clerks Meetings

From Rosie Rodriguez

August 17 Secondary Attendance Clerks 1:30-3:30

Agenda:
  • Truancy Reporting
  • Silk/Websilk Reports
  • Meeting Diploma + expectations
August 24 Elementary Attendance Clerks 2:00-4:00pm

Agenda:
  • Truancy Reporting
  • Silk/Websilk Reports
  • Meeting Diploma + expectations