Our second goal was to align our resources. Both SSD and the school district of Clayton have a lot of resources and a lot of experts in reading, writing, math, social emotional supports so we worked very closely with our, oh thank you, changed on my paper not up there, sorry. All right so we worked very closely with the reading specialist and the math specialist in the school district of Clayton. We did some collaboration with instructional coaches from SSD and also the reading and math coaches from SSD. I would like to highlight some of the hard work that the school district of Clayton staff did to support us in the areas of reading and math. Angela who is the district math coordinator for SDC she collaborated with us. We had a lot of work throughout the school year and played a pretty big role in us identifying appropriate curriculum for our replacement math courses on both the middle and high school level. That was a huge, that was a huge, that was a really large amount of work that she was passionate about and purposeful about and we really appreciate it. Not only did she help us with the curriculum but she also came throughout the school year and supported and coached our staff which I think was really beneficial.

That was a huge, that was a huge, that was a really large amount of work that she was passionate about and purposeful about and we really appreciate it. Not only did she help us with the curriculum but she also came throughout the school year and supported and coached our staff which I think was really beneficial. She also this summer said, well in the fall she said John I would like for you to go to this virtual PD and I said yes I want to go to this virtual PD and so we did it and it was on a book called Rethinking Disabilities and Mathematics. There isn't a lot of research on disabilities and mathematics so she found this book, we went to the PD and then we did a book study this summer for the school district of Clayton teachers and special ed teachers and she co-facilitated that book. to do that and really took the lead so that's something that's very unique to Clayton. We also work pretty closely with Julie Parr who is the school district of Clayton literacy coordinator and she helped us pick out curriculum for our replacement classes for ELA on the secondary level. She's also someone that helped us figure out what program, what reading program in particular we could get our teachers trained in that kind of way and so Julie and Angela really helped us with this second goal here and we appreciate that. Highlight them. We, our third goal, okay this time I'm on it.

Highlight them. We, our third goal, okay this time I'm on it. Okay great. Change of both places. Our third goal was to increase collaborative walk throughs and we did that. I just want to focus on the result of that collaborative walk throughs between myself and the principals. There's some big changes in the play box. There were some revisions on the playground at Marimack Elementary School to provide more accessibility to students. One student in particular there like the principal really did make a lot of changes for one student to be included and to have a really amazing play time on that playground so I thought that was really something to highlight. We changed the format of our study skills classes on the middle school level. The principal Jamie Jordan there, she spent a lot of time with us going into special education spaces trying to figure out how we can make it best work for students, both the physical space and the academics. As a result of that our teachers, we have a teacher, three teachers and then also Kate and myself are going through executive skills coaching for students who have some of those executive skills deficits with Dr. Pegg Dawson. She's one of my heroes and we're taking a course with her so we can revise our study skills curriculum K-12 and so that's pretty exciting. They also added classroom space at Wydown and Clayton High School.

She's one of my heroes and we're taking a course with her so we can revise our study skills curriculum K-12 and so that's pretty exciting. They also added classroom space at Wydown and Clayton High School. We have beautiful classrooms in particular at the high school with a lot of windows, tons of windows for our replacement classes and then we also added a room like a calm down room at Glenridge which was really amazing because it allowed us to have a room that allows for some of our students with big feelings to stay in the building no matter what and be able to be with their peers and get their work done so that's some of the highlights from that goal. Goal four was to expand that two way communication with parents. Parents in this, in all areas in all of the goals but in this goal in particular very, very important. I think in Clayton the parents are extremely involved and really do guide the work that we do to support parents. We have a lot of our students are very vocal and able to advocate for themselves but our most vulnerable students who are not able to use their voices in a traditional way. They have really passionate parents who work with us to make sure they receive the things they need and I personally appreciate that. I have not experienced that anywhere else so we work closely with PAC ED. We co-planned two events with them last year.

I have not experienced that anywhere else so we work closely with PAC ED. We co-planned two events with them last year. We also worked with them to figure out what parents need from us for that fifth to sixth grade transition so we held in addition to the general transition meeting for parents coming into Y Down Middle we held an additional meeting just for parents of students with special needs at Y Down Two based on that. We also have a podcast. I don't think any of you have heard this podcast because it has 15 listeners and my mom I think is like 10. I appreciate her. It's called it takes a village. This year we're going big. We are going big. We are sending it to everyone. Yes. I think the more people we get on there the more mothers that listen and so if one of you come on maybe your mom will listen and be like this is my child. So that's something to work on for this year. Yeah. All right. So looking forward into this school year we would like to increase of course family participation. We send out surveys to parents each semester in particular for the students who receive services in Clayton, their general experience and then also for their experience at IEP meetings.