1. Build Relationships
Get to know your student’s teachers, support staff, administrators, and others who impact you and your student. Share your student’s strengths, interests, favorite activities, and learning priorities. Describe behavior supports that work or ways to structure situations to avoid behaviorchallenges. You are encouraged to call, email, send notes, request and attend parent conferences and ARD/IEP meetings.
2. Review your Student’s IEP
Read through your student’s IEP to refresh your own memory, and talk with your student about his/her learning goals. Each of your student’s teachers will receive a copy of the accommodations and applicable IEP documents. An IEP’s strength lies in the parents’ and teachers’ understanding of it and their active participation in implementing it.
Please communicate with the school if you have any questions or concerns.
Sign up for Parent Self Serve at https://is-teams.aisd.net/selfserve/parent/ to keep track of your student's grades. Your student can have access to the self-serve also.
3. When to request a Parent Conference vs. an ARD/IEP meeting
Call the Counseling Center to request a meeting with your student’s academic teachers. This would be a great opportunity to share insights and information about your student while you build that relationship and establish yourself as an active team member in your student’s education. Request this meeting early in the year to introduce yourself and share your student’s learning needs before the teachers call you to request a parent conference. An ARD/IEP meeting can usually be requested after that parent conference if any discussed changes need to be made to your student’s IEP. Our diagnostician is on our campus Wednesday and Thursdays, so ARDs are scheduled on those days during one of the teacher's conference period.
4. Become Involved
You can continue to encourage your student’s success by being involved at school throughout the year. Consider joining the PTA, volunteering in the classroom, assisting with special events, etc. Our contact information is listed above. Please do not hesitate to call, email, etc. if you have a concern or question.
Get to know your student’s teachers, support staff, administrators, and others who impact you and your student. Share your student’s strengths, interests, favorite activities, and learning priorities. Describe behavior supports that work or ways to structure situations to avoid behaviorchallenges. You are encouraged to call, email, send notes, request and attend parent conferences and ARD/IEP meetings.
2. Review your Student’s IEP
Read through your student’s IEP to refresh your own memory, and talk with your student about his/her learning goals. Each of your student’s teachers will receive a copy of the accommodations and applicable IEP documents. An IEP’s strength lies in the parents’ and teachers’ understanding of it and their active participation in implementing it.
Please communicate with the school if you have any questions or concerns.
Sign up for Parent Self Serve at https://is-teams.aisd.net/selfserve/parent/ to keep track of your student's grades. Your student can have access to the self-serve also.
3. When to request a Parent Conference vs. an ARD/IEP meeting
Call the Counseling Center to request a meeting with your student’s academic teachers. This would be a great opportunity to share insights and information about your student while you build that relationship and establish yourself as an active team member in your student’s education. Request this meeting early in the year to introduce yourself and share your student’s learning needs before the teachers call you to request a parent conference. An ARD/IEP meeting can usually be requested after that parent conference if any discussed changes need to be made to your student’s IEP. Our diagnostician is on our campus Wednesday and Thursdays, so ARDs are scheduled on those days during one of the teacher's conference period.
4. Become Involved
You can continue to encourage your student’s success by being involved at school throughout the year. Consider joining the PTA, volunteering in the classroom, assisting with special events, etc. Our contact information is listed above. Please do not hesitate to call, email, etc. if you have a concern or question.