If an essential Student Team Member cannot attend an IEP conference, the Special Education Teacher must complete and send an Agreement to Excuse from Attendance form to the parent. Use the Excuse Form screen to complete and print the form. Additionally, use this screen to record the parent's response.
NOTE: The team member must be (1) a scheduled participant and (2) be marked as Excused in the Scheduled Conference document before you can proceed with steps described below.
To complete the form, do the following:
Expand the appropriate conference by selecting the + sign.
The name of the excused individual is displayed under the conference.
Highlight the excused individual. The Actions menu selections will change.
Select Open Excuse Form.
In the Excuse from Conference form, enter the following information:
Excuse Form Information - This information will be printed to the form.
Provided
to Parent Date - Enter the date the form was given
to the parent.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Entering a Provided
to Parent Date then saving the PWN will cause the document
to be versioned. (Learn
more.)
Participant's Subject/Service Area - Enter the subject area of the team member who cannot be present at the conference.
Subject/Service
Area will be discussed to the conference - Select Yes or No.
Response Information - After parent replies, record the response.
Received from Parent Date
Parent Consents
to Absence - Select Yes
or No.
Click Save.
To print, click Print Form. This button is displayed only after you click Save.