EDUC651 - Interdisciplinary Team Development Class Project

The Student Services Coordinator Certification Classes produced the following research projects during the 2000 – 2001 school year. These items were team projects produced by SSCs from all DOE districts. They are designed to foster growth and to sustain the development of a Comprehensive Student Support System (CSSS) and fit into the CSSS framework for reducing barriers to learning. They are being provided as resources to facilitate the delivery of School Based Services for students with disabilities.

Project 1: School Based Services: A Training Module
Project 2: CSSS Teacher's Resource Handback
Project 3: School Transitions
Project 4: Transition Guidelines: Releasing School to Receiving School
Project 5: Distractibility: A Continuum of Supports
Project 6: Interactive Transition Portfolio for Branden
Project 7: CSSS Training Module
Project 8: Team Project: Na Lima Kokua (Helping Hands)
Project 9: Student Services Coordinator Survival Guide
Project 10: Design Plan for School Based Mental Health Services
Project 11: Education Evaluation Handbook
Project 12: Design Plan for School Based Mental Health Services
Project 13: CSSS Overview (VHS videotape)
Project 14: Molokai Complex Plan for Quality Mental Health Services Project 15: Building Bridges: A Tool for Promoting Communication (pamphlet)
Project 16: A Pocket Full of Wonders (website)
Project 17: Pre-referral Interventions for Schools & Home
Project 18: Pre-Referral Flip Chart
Project 19: Functional Behavior Assessment Made Simple (handbook)
Project 20: Student Services Coordinator: Roles & Responsibilities
Project 21: Student Behavioral Rating Scale
Project 22: Roles and Responsibilities of Student Services Coordinators
Project 23: Local and National Resources for Students with Disabilities
Project 24: SSC Manual of Forms for the Oahu Districts

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Project 1: School Based Services: A Training Module
Description: This module is an overview of the entire process of removing barriers to learning for students with special needs through the implementation of School Based Services. Organized within the Comprehensive Student Support System (CSSS) framework, it is composed of a raft of services ranging from classroom strategies for student engagement, student transitions in and out of schools, family involvement, community outreach programs, prevention, early intervention and specialized assistance for at-risk students.
Created by: Melody Nietfeld (Kohala High/Big Isle), Anne Tucker (Kohala Elementary/Big Isle), Maureen Johnson (Waikoloa Elementary/Big Isle)
Contact(s): www.ssc.cds.hawaii.edu/h_roster.html
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Project 2: CSSS Teacher’s Resource Handbook
Description: Intended as a resource to help teachers solve problems directly, and to introduce the Comprehensive Student Support System (CSSS) for providing school based services. The handbook contains a number of sections addressing such issues as classroom management, accommodations for students, adapting curriculum to meet student needs, and the referral process for schools. The handbook also contains a calendar and pages for lesson plans so that the book will be a part of every day for the teacher.
Created by: Dottie Aganos (Waihee/Maui), Natalie Armstrong (Paiu/Maui), Halle Maxwell ((Kihei/Maui), Jay Whitten, Charlotte Wolter (Wailuku/Maui)
Contact(s): www.ssc.cds.hawaii.edu/h_roster.html
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Project 3: School Transitions
Description: A handbook for Student Services Coordinators (SSCs) containing forms developed to assist in standardizing procedures for new student enrollment, and for students moving from school-to-school and program-to-program. The checklist format provides a simple, step-by-step method for ensuring that each stage of the process is completed efficiently and in a timely manner.
Created by: Heidi Drahn (Lihikai/Maui), Phyllis Fukami (Baldwin/Maui), Val Guiala (Baldwin/Maui), Glenn Nishimitsu (Maui Waena/Maui), Deb Shoup (Lokelani/Maui)
Contact(s): www.ssc.cds.hawaii.edu/h_roster.html
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Project 4: Transition Guidelines: Releasing School to Receiving School
Description: A step-by-step manual addressing critical areas of transition for students moving from releasing schools to receiving schools. Produced to support the duties of Student Services Coordinators (SSCs), it contains suggested formats for student confidential files, section 504 modification plans, student mental health files and a blank template for creating one’s own format. Procedures such as school-to-school record transfers, the transitioning process and a plan for counseling services are included. Created by: Jackie McMurrayn (Kau High/Big Isle), Susan Bowman (Pahoa Elementary/Big Isle), Sandra Taka-Medeiros (Keaau Elementary/Big Isle), Elna Gomes (Keaau Middle/Big Isle), Michelle Lee (Waiakea Intermediate/Big Isle), Claudia Calles (Keaau High/Big Isle)
Contact(s): www.ssc.cds.hawaii.edu/h_roster.html
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Project 5: Distractibility: A Continuum of Supports
Description: A description of the 5 levels of support within the Comprehensive Student Support System (CSSS) framework. It defines each level of support as it relates to the classroom, the school, the home, the community, and the student as an individual. Provides a list of roles and responsibilities within the context of each level. References for professional resources and websites are included.
Created by: Kathy Gaughen (Kealakehe Elementary/Big Isle), Kathy LaRosa (Konawaena Elementary/Big Isle), Linda Paisley (Kealakehe Elementary/Big Isle), Vicki Royce (Kealakehe Intermediate/Big Isle), Lisa Vail (Holualoa Elementary/Big Isle)
Contact(s): www.ssc.cds.hawaii.edu/h_roster.html
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Project 6: Interactive Transition Portfolio for Branden
Description: A sample student transition portfolio. Its information is organized according to personal information, performance levels, observations & strategies and includes student work samples. The personal information section contains a photograph, lists interests and hobbies, favorite and least favorite subjects, vital statistics, and family composition. Performance levels contain notes on the student’s learning style, social and emotional behavior(s), organizational skills, and suggested approaches to effective teaching. Observations & strategies addresses student behavior(s), characteristics of parent-student relationship, and identifies successful responses to teaching. The work sample includes a recent report card, the student’s SAT scores, and an example of the student’s writing.
Created by: Ann O’Rourke, Laura Ujiie (Kalama Intermediate/Maui), Val Siu (Kalama Intermediate/Maui), Cheryl Thebeau (Pukalani/Maui)
Contact(s): www.ssc.cds.hawaii.edu/h_roster.html
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Project 7: CSSS Training Module
Description: A summary history describing the creation of a training module for Regular Education Teachers in addressing interventions in the classroom. The text concentrates on the process of identifying and obtaining resources, and the content derived therefrom. Personal evaluations provide information concerning the effectiveness of the module in testimonials addressing what each member learned from the project, what expectations were and were not met, whether subject preferences were included, and what was learned about working collaboratively. The content steps identify the topics to be addressed such as state and federal laws that apply to student transitions and special needs populations.
Created by: Victoria Clifford-Fernandez (Hilo High/Big Isle), Sharon Furstenworth (Hilo Union/Big Isle), Beverly Henricks (Kaumana/Big Isle), Dianne Horwitz (Waiakea Elementary/Big Isle), Terri Kuwahara (E.B. deSilva/Big Isle), Vivian Lee (East Hawaii District Office/Big Isle), David Panoff (Hilo High/Big Isle), Ardith Renteria (East Hawaii District Office/Big Isle)
Contact(s): www.ssc.cds.hawaii.edu/h_roster.html
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Project 8: Team Project: Na Lima Kokua (Helping Hands)
Description: Created as a model of an infrastructure of the Student Services Coordinator (SSC) position for the Kauai School District. The text describes the purpose, the rationale, the process used to develop the project, the resources acquired, and what was accomplished. Accounts of each member’s experience and the surveys used for delineating the SSCs role at various schools are included. Its final product is a pamphlet that defines who the SSC is, what an SSC does, and provides a graphic model of the referral process.
Created by: Susan Bado (Kauai District Office/Kauai), Mindy Ching (Kauai District Office/Kauai), Heidi Chong, Gordon Shibao (Kauai District Office/Kauai), Gayle Thompson (Kauai District Office/Kauai)
Contact(s): www.ssc.cds.hawaii.edu/h_roster.html
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Project 9: Student Services Coordinator Survival Guide
Description: A hands-on guide to help Student Services Coordinators (SSCs) function on the job in the Central Oahu Public School District. It describes the SSC’s role at school and contains completed sample copies of the forms used in the referral process. Additional information is provided for developing plans and forming Student Support Teams. Material concerning an array of disabilities from the National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY) is also included.
Created by: Robynne Ching (Aliamanu Elementary/O’ahu), Robin Ho (Waianae/O’ahu), Merrill Uno (Mokulele Elementary/O’ahu), Colleea Yee (Barbers Point Elementary/O’ahu), Lynn Hasegawa (Nanakuli Elementary/O’ahu), John Park (Wheeler Middle School/O’ahu), Sharleen Hirasake-Putnam (Kapolei Middle School/O’ahu)
Contact(s): www.ssc.cds.hawaii.edu/h_roster.html
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Project 10: Design Plan for School Based Mental Health Services
Description: A collection of referral forms, and statistical and procedural information relating to the Aloha Public School Complex. These materials have been collected to assist Student Services Coordinators (SSCs) to implement mental health services for students in need.
Created by: Kimberly Hirt (Iroquois Point/O’ahu), Patricia Li (Waiau/O’ahu), Karen Loeffler (Hau’ula Elementary/O’ahu), Jay Nakasone (Ewa Beach Elementary/O’ahu), Ernest Pai (Holomua/O’ahu), Jodi Tanaka (Campbell High/O’ahu), Dianna Torres
Contact(s): www.ssc.cds.hawaii.edu/h_roster.html
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Project 11: Education Evaluation Handbook
Description: Intended for Student Services Coordinators (SSCs), it is a resource for composing quality academic assessments. Divided into 10 sections, it contains sample evaluations and descriptions for drafting recommendations assessing levels of skill in math, written language and expression, reading, general knowledge, listening comprehension, oral language expression, preschool, socialization and ADHD. It also includes a section for writing general and summary recommendations.
Created by: Kristie Araki, Beatrice Hawkins (Kailua Elementary/O’ahu), Tricia Ho (Wheeler Elementary/O’ahu), Tiffany Pratt (Blanche Pope/O’ahu), Shannon Sakurai (Highlands Intermediate/O’ahu), Sheila Tonaki (Central District Office/O’ahu), Katherine Wallen (Waikiki Elementary/O’ahu)
Contact(s): www.ssc.cds.hawaii.edu/h_roster.html
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Project 12: Design Plan for School Based Mental Health Services
Description: A collection of referral forms, and statistical and procedural information relating to the Aloha Public School Complex. These materials have been collected to assist Student Services Coordinators (SSCs) to implement mental health services for students in need.
Created by: Kimberly Hirt (Iroquois Point/O’ahu), Patricia Li (Waiau/O’ahu), Karen Loeffler (Hau’ula Elementary/O’ahu), Jay Nakasone (Ewa Beach Elementary/O’ahu), Ernest Pai (Holomua/O’ahu), Jodi Tanaka (Campbell High/O’ahu), Dianna Torres
Contact(s): www.ssc.cds.hawaii.edu/h_roster.html
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Project 13: CSSS Overview (VHS videotape)
Description: An introduction to the Comprehensive Student Support System (CSSS) for Student Services Coordinators (SSCs). The 7-minute program visually explicates each of the 5 levels of student support with text and scenes from school life. A musical accompaniment is included.
Created by: Blanche Yoshida (Kauai District Office/Kauai), Janice Oyama (Koloa/Kauai), Heidi Kaohi (Kauai High/Kauai), Faith Ono (Waimea Canyon/Kauai), Sharleen Taira (Waimea High/Maui), Joey Sokei (Kapaa Middle/Kauai)
Contact(s): www.ssc.cds.hawaii.edu/h_roster.html
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Project 14: Molokai Complex Plan for Quality Mental Health Services
Description: A plan for delivery of services using the Interagency Quality Support Plan (IQSP) of the Moloka’i Kukui Alliance. Its desired outcomes are to prepare a model transition plan for IDEA/504 students from DOH care to coordinated school-based mental health services, develop a categorized list of competencies for mental health therapists, and to create a Moloka’i Complex flowchart for securing and maintaining the continuity of mental health services.
Created by: G. Paul Bayes (Kaunakakai/Moloka’i), Roslyn Kayatani (Lana’I), Jane La Voie (Maunaloa/Moloka’i), Verna Marquez (Kilohana/Moloka’i), Art Saguid (Kualapu’u/Moloka’i)
Contact(s): www.ssc.cds.hawaii.edu/h_roster.html
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Project 15: Building Bridges: A Tool for Promoting Communication (Pamphlet)
Description: A brochure created to encourage open communication between teachers and parents with children who have special needs. It contains definitions of frequently used DOE acronyms, frequently asked questions by parents of teachers (i.e., "What is expected of my child in the classroom?"), and by teachers of parents ("What is your child’s after school routine?"). It also contains a chart explaining the process of making accommodations for students to succeed in the classroom.
Created by: Danna Warman (Leilehua High/O’ahu), Linda Thomas, Carolyn Steuer (Nanaikapono Elementary/O’ahu), Chris Taylor (Ka’ala/O’ahu), Gail Izumi (Mililani Mauka/O’ahu)
Contact(s): www.ssc.cds.hawaii.edu/h_roster.html
Website: www.hawaii.edu/sss

Project 16: A Pocket Full of Wonders (Website)
Description: A website that was created to include forms that any Student Services Coordinator (SSC) could use to help simplify their job duties. The web address is below.
Created by: Chris Aurlo (Kamaile/O’ahu), Anuhea Ka’aihue (Waianae High/O’ahu), Sharla Kaneshiro (Makakilo/O’ahu), Kathy Mitchell (Maili Elementary/O’ahu), Kristy Wagatsuma (Waianae Intermediate/O’ahu)
Contact(s): www.ssc.cds.hawaii.edu/h_roster.html

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Project 17: Pre-Referral Interventions for Schools & Home
Description: A resource guide that describes the sources available to SSCs to support informed decision-making with students in need. Chapters on reviewing school records, obtaining pertinent information in interviews, drafting assessment questions, making behavioral observations, and offering strategies for parents to help their child at home are included with a lengthy bibliography of published reference materials concerning learning styles, the socio-emotional environment, and various content areas.
Created by: Cindy Grimord (Mililani Waena/O’ahu), Carlyn Kauwalu (Aiea Intermediate/O’ahu), Kristy Lucas (Kiapu/O’ahu), Pamela Ome (Nuuanu Elementary/O’ahu), Lorene Unten (Wahiawa/O’ahu), Christene Watanabe (Waimalu Elementary/O’ahu)
Contact(s): www.ssc.cds.hawaii.edu/h_roster.html
Website: www.hawaii.edu/sss

Project 18: Pre-Referral Flip Chart
Description: This sample flip chart contains instructional techniques that have been gathered through hands-on experience, as well as from experts in the fields of education and behavior management. Information on behavioral observation, visual, auditory, and kinesthetic/tactile learning characteristics, behavioral challenges and available resources is included. Meant to be used as a guide to help with documentation and to serve as a catalyst for action in making accommodations for students in need.
Created by: Cindy Grimord (Mililani Waena/O’ahu), Carlyn Kauwalu (Aiea Intermediate/O’ahu), Kristy Lucas (Kiapu/O’ahu), Pamela Ome (Nuuanu Elementary/O’ahu), Lorene Unten (Wahiawa/O’ahu), Christene Watanabe (Waimalu Elementary/O’ahu)
Contact(s): www.ssc.cds.hawaii.edu/h_roster.html
Website: www.hawaii.edu/sss

Project 19: Functional Behavior Assessment Made Simple (Handbook)
Description: A resource guide examining the variables maintaining challenging behaviors in students, it is divided into a series of steps that take the reader through the entire process. From identifying and defining a problem behavior, to collecting behavioral and academic data, making an hypothesis, and developing an appropriate intervention, the guide treats the assessment process as a journey. Worksheets, plans for effective behavior support, and resource material for identifying types of challenging behavior and making appropriate interventions are included.
Created by: Desiree Arcalas (Waipahu High/O’ahu), Staci Ching (Waikele Elemenatary/O’ahu), Adrian Galvez, Rosemary Kam-Pabingwit (Waipahu High/O’ahu), Lynn Lee (Waipahu Elementary/O’ahu), Phuong Wataoka (Waipahu Intermediate/O’ahu)
Contact(s): www.ssc.cds.hawaii.edu/h_roster.html
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Project 20: Student Services Coordinator: Roles & Responsibilities
Description: A statistical report that identifies the roles and responsibilities of a Student Services Coordinator (SSC) according to the 5 levels of student support within the Comprehensive Student Support System (CSSS). The collected information was obtained by surveying a representative sample of Hawaii SSCs working at all school levels (i.e., high, intermediate, and elementary). Graphs and tables display the results of what SSCs actually do, their top duties per level of support, the number of roles performed at each level, and the resources available to them. A State of Hawaii job description for the position of Student Services Coordinator (SSC) and a copy of the survey questions are included.
Created by: Arlene Angelo, Christopher Chang, Virginai D’Amato (Moanalua Elementary/O’ahu), Phyllis Ishizaki, Kelley Kobashigawa, Vikki Okutani, Patti Tsukimura (Shafter Elementary/O’ahu)
Contact(s): www.ssc.cds.hawaii.edu/h_roster.html
Website: www.hawaii.edu/ssc

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Project 21: Student Behavioral Rating Scale
Description: A pair of behavioral rating sheets, one for the elementary level and the other for the secondary level, developed for making classroom-based assessments of students receiving mental health services. The instrument is proposed for inclusion in the Student Services Coordinator’s inventory for monitoring mental health treatment services. Recommended for measuring progress on a quarterly basis, it is also intended to help mental health care providers become more attuned with the classroom setting, and to foster better interaction with teachers, parents and students.
Created by: Luisa Betita, Joanne Fujii, Virginia Furukawa, Lee Higbee, Chris Hundahl, Donna Kusunoki, Carol Matsukawa
Contact(s): www.ssc.cds.hawaii.edu/h_roster.html
Website: www.hawaii.edu/ssc

Project 22: Roles and Responsibilities of Student Services Coordinators
Description: The results of a survey concerning the 5 levels of student support. The survey identifies what Student Services Coordinators (SSCs) are actually doing in schools according to each level of support.
Created by: Arlene Angelo, Christopher Chang, Virginai D’Amato (Moanalua Elementary/O’ahu), Phyllis Ishizaki, Kelley Kobashigawa, Vikki Okutani, Patti Tsukimura (Shafter Elementary/O’ahu)
Contact(s): www.ssc.cds.hawaii.edu/h_roster.html
Website: www.hawaii.edu/ssc

Project 23: Local and National Resources for Students with Disabilities
Description: A quick user-friendly reference of resources for School Coordinators. Resource offers phone numbers, addresses and e-mail address of resource agencies for all disability categories.
Created by: Beryle Ishizaki (King Intermediate), Christine Vincent (Aiea High School), Billy Jean Hughes (Maunawili Elementary), Cynthia Jett Gilmour (Kanaeloni Elementary), Bonnie Huff (Ka’aawa Elementary), Lauren Au (Waimanalo Elementary), Noel Richardson (Ilima Intermediate)
Contact(s): www.ssc.cds.hawaii.edu/h_roster.html
Website: www.hawaii.edu/ssc

Project 24: SSC Manual of Forms for the Oahu Districts
Description: Members from Honolulu, Leeward, Windward, and Central Oahu Districts worked on creating a large binder filled with each and every form used in their respective districts. The purpose was tri-fold: 1) visually see what forms each district had, 2) increase awareness between SSCs as to what would be needed when sending files over to another district, and 3) brainstorm ways the system could be improved state-wide. What each member realized is that each district is "re-inventing the wheel". If there was more collaboration between districts, the result would be less paperwork and information would be more efficiently if everyone had the same "complete" forms to use. Also, there was a realization that Central Oahu District had the most forms.
Created by: Jason Wong (Aliamanu Middle), Stacy Jones (Olomana), Kim Uyeda-Young (Hokulani Elementary), Marie Mitsukawa (Jefferson Elementary, Jodi Yoshimura (Kuhio Elementary, Stuart Kim (Alawai Elementary
Contact(s): www.ssc.cds.hawaii.edu/h_roster.html
Website: www.hawaii.edu/ssc

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EDUC695 - Interdisciplinary Assessment to Effective Practices Class Project

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EDUC696 - Advanced Interdisciplinary Assessment to Effective Practices Class Project

EDUC697 - Advanced Interdisciplinary Team & System Development Class Project

No project

EDUC698 - Portfolio/Fieldwork Class Project

PHASE I
Vision statement page (pdf download)
Summary pages: Level I - V (pdf download)
Program Element 1: Level I - V (pdf download)
Program Element 2: Level I - V (pdf download)
Program Element 3: Level I - V (pdf download)
Program Element 4: Level I - V (pdf download)
Program Element 5: Level I - V (pdf download)
Program Element 6: Level I - V (pdf download)
Table (pdf download)

PHASE II
Analysis of Students Supports (pdf download)
Six Program Elements Table (pdf download)

PHASE III
Interdisciplinary Leadership Faciliation Skills (pdf download)

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