categories

Special Education

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  Department advice on disability data collection during COVID

  August 11, 2020

  The Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD) provides information about the number of students with disability in schools and the adjustments they receive.

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  Staffing win helping to support students with disability during COVID-19

  May 20, 2020

  The COVID-19 pandemic hit hard our classes and teachers of students with disability. Responsive staff, additional staffing and the loud call for a targeted response to unique site and student needs relieved what threatened to be a disastrous outcome.

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  SSP and IEC teachers addressing additional complications to provide remote learning

  April 09, 2020

  Teachers in Schools for Special Purposes and Intensive English Centres are working with a unique set of challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic as they strive to provide educational continuity for students with special needs and English as an additional language or dialect requirements.

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  Support the safety of all

  March 11, 2020

  Safety in schools for teachers, support staff and students is paramount.

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  Federation negotiations secure extra staff for SSPs

  February 21, 2020

  A Federation campaign has helped secure $37 million funding for extra staff across all Schools for Specific Purposes (SSPs) during 2020.

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  Enabling Equity

  November 30, 2019

  Programming for students with disability in regular classes in mainstream schools

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  Your wokplace contacts

  November 08, 2019

  Madelain Frazer, Lakeside school

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  Enabling Equity

  September 28, 2019

  Inadequate government funding for students with disability continues to put increasing pressure on all public school settings as they work to meet the learning needs of all their students.