Welcome to a new school year! Your child's special education teacher and you will be working closely together ensure the school year goes smoothly. Your child's special education teacher will be:

· Implementing your child's goals and objectives on their IEP (Individualized Education Program)
· Informing regular education teachers of your child's accommodations needed in their classrooms
· Working closely with your child's regular education teacher to monitor their progress
· Keeping you informed of problems that arise and asking you for feedback in creating solutions
· Letting you know what is going well for your child

We know that your involvement is crucial in helping us all work together for your child's benefit. Please feel free to contact us at Bristow Run with any concerns you may have or you may send us an email at the following addresses:

Kim Bender	Speech Language Pathologist	benderka@pwcs.edu
Ami Tasker	Learning Disabilities Teacher K-3	taskerai@pwcs.edu
Karen Husar	Learning Disabilities Teacher 4-5	husarkw@pwcs.edu
Maryann McManus	Autism Teacher	mcmanumr@pwcs.edu

LD Resource Classroom Discipline

Every student deserves to learn and grow in a positive and nurturing environment, and because of this reason, a classroom discipline plan has been developed for the resource room. This discipline plan will allow your child to make good decisions regarding his/her behavior in class. This plan will explain the rules, positive reinforcement, and consequences used.

Classroom Rules:
· Be kind
· Listen carefully and follow directions
· Work hard and stay on task

Positive and appropriate behavior will be reinforced with verbal praise, positive phone calls and notes home, and a daily sticker chart that lists each of these rules. The students will also be able to earn stickers towards prizes.

Discipline:
With every negative behavior, I will try to do my best to do the following three actions:
1. Label the behavior to the student
2. Redirect the student
3. Consequence
Labeling and redirecting the student is his/her warning. After that warning, consequences will have to come into place. If the student chooses to continue the negative behavior after receiving a warning, the following steps will be taken:
1. Loss of a sticker on his/her sticker chart
2. Phone call home


For severe offenses and disruptions, the student will be sent to the office.

Please review this with your child. Please keep in mind that this discipline plan is in addition to the Bristow Run Elementary school wide discipline plan.