Approves up to $132,000 for School Specialty to train staff on teaching students with dyslexia

School Specialty Children's Publishing will provide multi-day professional development for the Special Education Department. Sessions cover dyslexia profiles, reviewing baseline assessments, tracking student progress and multi-sensory teaching methods. The contract runs from October 1, 2019 through August 31, 2020. The contract period began before this vote.

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Vendor / partner: School Specialty Children's Publishing · Greenville, WI
Action: New agreement
Category: Special education
Sub-category: Programs & support
Term: Oct 1, 2019 – Aug 31, 2020
This vote: $132,000
Funding: Title IIa Teacher Quality
Resource / site: 4035-975
Vendor no.: 003826
Presented by: Chief Academic Officer
File: 19-2141 · agenda P.-51
Outcome: Adopted on the General Consent Report, Nov 13, 2019

Official text

Approval by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between the District and School Specialty Children's Publishing, Greenville, WI, for the latter to provide multi-day professional development sessions which focus on dyslexia and review profiles of dyslexia-like students; review baseline assessments and provide training on progress monitoring for students with dyslexia and provide explicit examples of multi-sensory methodologies, as described in the Scope of Work, for the Special Education Department, for the period of October 1, 2019 through August 31, 2020, in an amount not to exceed $132,000.00.

History

Nov 13, 2019 Adopted on the General Consent Report

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