1. School Adjustment Plans

2. What is a School Adjustment Plan? What is the purpose of the Adjustment Plan? Who is the Audience? Comparing the Adjustment Plan to the CEC Profiles

3. What is a School Adjustment Plan? One page Word document (generally – can be back to back or smaller font) An individual school wide plan – source of key information - context specific Reports on aspects which act as a barrier to a student’s access and participation in school life and states the reasonable adjustments to support access and participation in school life Reports on 6 Domains – curriculum, Communication, Mobility, Personal Care, Safety and Social Skills

4. Continued…. A source of other useful information – LST discretion A scaffold to give order and to guide the collection of information Provides an organisational framework of succinct and relevant information to use in consultation with stakeholders A working, word document that can be updated with annotations (or electronically) as appropriate to teaching circumstances

5. What is the purpose? To state the key challenges within each relevant domain To state the specific, reasonable adjustments To give a concise (detailed) summary of both challenges and corresponding adjustments To provide the most useful information, contextualised to the particular student and the particular school To provide an ‘easy reference’ document for all school staff to ensure consistency in the implementation of each student’s adjustments

6. Who is your Audience? All School Staff Class teacher LSTs LSAs RFF teachers Subject specialists [Art, Music, Library, Sport] Casual teachers and LSAs School executive

7. Catholic Education Commission (CEC) CEC On-line Planning tool: Purpose and audience Comparison of purpose

8. What are CEC Plans? 10 page document (minimum) An individual plan - a comprehensive collection of information which covers a wide range of aspects of schooling Are stored on-line and accessed via the internet by authorised staff (personal login) The website (on-line tool) is coordinated by an IT team at the CEC An obligation to update the web based CEC PP at least once a year

9. CEC Plans Purpose Provide comprehensive information in relation to a student’s personal plan Provide an account of adjustments (tendency to focus on generic adjustments) Accountability to the CEC Provide data to the CEC for analysis to ascertain a student’s overall level of need; supplementary, substantial or extensive Audience CEC Parents CSO

10. CEC Planning Tool Information Domains: Student personal details Planning and personal Curriculum Communication Mobility Personal Care Safety Social Skills Transition Information Collaborative Planning

11. Compare the Purpose School Adjustment Plans Priority… current information relevant to school based adjustments Focus on specific key barriers and corresponding specific adjustments in each domain Provide a ‘picture’ of how to best support an individual student within the context of the student and the school Provide an ‘easy reference’ plan for all school staff to ensure consistency of implementation CEC Planning Tool Priority… comprehensive cumulative information in relation to a student’s school life Focus on generic adjustments Accountability to the CEC Provide data to the CEC for analysis to ascertain a student’s overall level of need; supplementary, substantial or extensive