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I hope you are all ready and excited for the upcoming SEP Week.  Thank you for the extra time and effort required in setting up appointments.  As you conduct your SEPs next week, I wanted to provide a few possible suggestions that many of you already have in place that seem to help them go smoothly:

Ø  Greet parents in a positive friendly way.   The way you would like to be greeted if you were the parent.

Ø  Never start in on a problem as the first item of business of the SEP. 

Ø  Express appreciation for their child and that you love having him/her child in your class.  Parents always want to know that you like their child.

Ø  When dealing with a problem, approach it as an area where you would like to help the child improve.  Rather than comments that their child is behind all the other students or never completes their work, try rephrasing it into areas where they can improve.  (I want to keep working with… to help bring him from a first to third grade reading level.  A few things you can do at home are…) It is important to let parents know we expect their student to improve.

Ø  Work to create a positive climate.

If you would please be sure that Sherri has a copy of your SEP schedule.  If you were to share a live Google Doc with Sherri it would be even better.  She fields a lot of calls regarding SEP Schedules…

Thanks for all you do.  Have a fantastic weekend!

Thought: “The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.”  John Ruskin

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