{"id":10019,"date":"2013-08-08T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=10019"},"modified":"2013-08-05T10:56:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T14:56:19","slug":"sorry-we-cant-find-a-certified-teacher-for-esy-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/sorry-we-cant-find-a-certified-teacher-for-esy-now-what\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sorry. We Can&#8217;t Find a Certified Teacher for ESY.&#8221; Now what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"%22Sorry.%20We%20Can%27t%20Find%20a%20Certified%20Teacher%20for%20ESY.%22%20Now%20what%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/nltr\/img\/boy.class.tchr.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"94\" \/>My son is deaf and has a deaf ed certified teacher during the year. This is stated in his IEP. He started ESY last week.<\/p>\n<p>The school said it could not find a deaf ed teacher for ESY this summer. What can I do as a parent to make sure that they use a qualified teacher who will follow his IEP?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kudos to you, mom, for not taking the summer off from advocating for your son\u2019s needs!<\/p>\n<p>The first question to ask your school is what attempts have been made to find a teacher-of-the-deaf (ToD) for ESY?<\/p>\n<p>All too often, the (usually unstated) answer is that the school hasn\u2019t actually tried to find a qualified individual.<\/p>\n<p>Schools often build their summer school staff from teachers who want the extra bucks for the light-load of ESY teaching.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s uncommon to find a school that plans for ESY based on the needs of the students themselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So start asking, in writing,<\/strong> the standard Wrightslaw 5-W\u2019s + H+ E questions.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">What? When? Who? Where? Why? + How? + Explain<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In our training programs, we emphasize the importance of keeping your emotions under control and treating others politely, regardless how nasty someone may be acting.<\/p>\n<p>You must always play the role of Ms. Manners (who merged with Peter Columbo) and ask lots of \u201c5 W\u2019s + H + E questions\u201d (who, what, when, where, why, how, explain).<\/p>\n<p>When you are focused and polite, school staff begin to view you differently. You are now Ms. Manners with a touch of Mother Theresa.\u00a0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=70\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Cry for Help or Reality Check?)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Get a Written Response from the School<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Politely ask the school to explain their answers to your questions in a written response.<\/p>\n<p>This will show whether the school has indeed made a good faith effort to find a certified ToD. And, you will have documentation of what happened.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s certainly appropriate to ask your son\u2019s regular ToD if she was recruited for ESY.<\/p>\n<p>That would shed additional light on the subject.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Next Steps<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the school&#8217;s demonstrated attempts have been unsuccessful, ask what is available in the neighboring district or reasonably reached region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The possibility of the school transporting your son to an ESY opportunity staffed by a qualified ToD must be considered since it is on his IEP.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son is deaf and has a deaf ed certified teacher during the year. This is stated in his IEP. He started ESY last week. The school said it could <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/sorry-we-cant-find-a-certified-teacher-for-esy-now-what\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1371,57,161],"tags":[135,1329,234],"class_list":["post-10019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extended-school-year-esy","category-fape","category-teachers","tag-5-ws-h-e","tag-esy","tag-extended-school-year"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10019"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10195,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10019\/revisions\/10195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}