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//**Welcome to WCS Exceptional Children and Student Services **//
 * //The mission of the WCS Student Services Department is to assist all students in achieving their full academic potential by providing opportunities to enhance their emotional, social and physical well-being.//**

EC We submitted our December Headcount. We currently have 124 EC students. 38 Elementary, 32 middle, 37 high school and 17 preschool.

We are in our 3rd year of the grant. We hired a consultant to come in for review and to offer some suggestions. Would like to have some teachers/instructional assistants from the elementary school trained in Corrective Reading. It is a scripted program. We have a a training scheduled tentatively the 2nd week in February.
 * NC SIP **

We are submitting our Indicators by the deadlines. It was stated in the documentation submitted to the state last year that we would have two stakeholders meetings and we had one in December, thanks to the principals that attended that meeting, our next meeting is scheduled in March.
 * CIPP **

The EC staff has attended several different workshops provided by DPI staff on transitions, re-evalutation process, the DEC 5 and DEC 4. We are in the process of completing some internal audits. Not informing the teachers when we are coming. Principals will be notified of the findings on the same day.
 * EC Staff **

Our self-contained class will have a class of Adaptive PE this year. Everyone is excited about that. We are also in the process of starting a school store for the EC and OCS students to run. WE will start small this semester, with pencils, notebooks, paper, erasers and other small school supply items. So any donations will be greatly appreciated.
 * Kudos to the High School **

Also, we just purchased the new and improved MECCA and PAES work programs for the high school and middle school to help the students determine a career path and teachers to help facilitate their interest. It is basically all computerized right now.

It is important that all EC teachers/staff attend our monthly meetings, we try to send out e-mails as soon as we get new information, but generally all the updates, deadlines and requirements are stated in our monthly meetings.

There are no deadlines for referrals to be submitted to the the SAT team. But..........
 * Referrals **

The training was held the first week in December. We will have a refresher half day training in the Spring.
 * CPI training **


 * Preschool **

It has become necessary for the WCS and CADA to come together to revise the current behavioral plan and make sure that the parents are aware of the necessary changes. We are still waiting on CADA for their input into the behavior plan. Dr. Bracy and I have a scheduled meeting with them today.

Continuing to work on our five star rating, the visit will take place in the Spring of 2014.

Hopefully, the vertical alignment meetings will begin this month. Mr. Plummer, I will talk with you more about this in detail and the expectation.


 * PBIS **

The ODR reports are due on the 5th of the following month. Please make sure that you keeping up with these reports, meeting minutes and submitting them in a timely manner. Also, action plans WERE due by November 15th. I still do not have them all. Our district wide PBIS meeting is scheduled for January 23rd at 3:30 p.m. Just a reminder, each school was allotted $800.

We are holding our regular monthly meetings. Next meeting is January 30th. I have all counselors PDP's, please ask them to share them with you.
 * Student Services **

We just closed our first AIG round-up, we had a total of students referred to AIG. Ms. Pittman and Ms. Lassiter are working to schedule those testing sessions with those students. We will have another round-up in the spring. We are still looking for a highly qualified AIG Coordinator for next school year. A candidate must enroll and take the four classes to have AIG added to their license. We are in the process of planning and AIG night for this upcoming semester.
 * AIG **


 * Homebound/504 **

We have two students on Homebound in the district.

//** Quote of the Month **// “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” ― [|Malcolm X]