Student services
More than special education, in the same place.
A student services department runs Section 504, English learner services and special education, often with the same people. PULSE keeps them side by side, so one teacher's whole week is counted once.
Available to every district
Section 504
- A register of every 504 plan, with its dates and status. It holds dates and status, not the plans themselves.
- Plans due in the next 60 days, plans past their date, and plans with no date on file, by school.
- Reevaluation dates and reminders to the people responsible.
- Coordinator and staff training, with each person's completion recorded.
An accommodations log is available to turn on.
Being readied, not yet available
English learners
- ESL teaching time counted in each teacher's workload, against the week in their contract, the same way IEP minutes are counted.
- English learner minutes and IEP minutes added together for a student who has both. One is never traded against the other.
- Each student's minutes checked against the state's requirement, where the state sets one.
- Former English learners tracked through their monitoring years.
The federal government sets no caseload ratio for ESL teachers, so PULSE does not apply one.
What comes next
- Now: special education and Section 504, with English learners being readied.
- Planned: interventionists and specialists. Reading specialists are already measured; math specialists and instructional coaches are planned.
- Planned: roles such as school nursing, under the same student services roof.