PERSONALIZED EDUCATION PLANS

RECOMMENDED PROCESS FOR DEVELOPING PERSONALIZED EDUCATION PLANS (PEPS)

Principals are responsible for coordinating and overseeing the PEP process in their schools.

• Require grade level/content area teachers or other selected personnel to identify students who failed to meet the Student Accountability Standards (scoring at Level I or II) and require a PEP. Schools are encouraged to develop a PEP for any student who is academically at risk.
• Establish a process to gather and organize the information specified on the PEP form.
• Examine the information and thoroughly analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each student identified as needing a PEP.
• Arrange needs in priority order, if several are identified. Keep in mind that the needs may not always be academic. There may be other barriers contributing to a lack of academic performance.
• Assemble the appropriate personnel (teacher, counselor, social worker, parent/guardian, principal, and/or assistant principal, etc.) based on each student’s needs to review the data and develop a PEP. These persons, along with the parent/guardian, make up the PEP team and are responsible for reviewing the data and developing the PEP. All parties sign off on the completed PEP.
• Outline the individual responsibilities of each PEP team member, including the parent or guardian, in developing, implementing and monitoring the PEP.
• Assess each student’s progress on a regular basis. If strategies placed in the plan are not producing the desired results at the first check point or any subsequent check point, the PEP team should meet to discuss needed revisions.
• Monitor PEP implementation on a regular basis. Keep the PEP where it is accessible to the PEP team members. Hold periodic update sessions with parents or guardians.
• Include all documentation in the student’s permanent file when the intervention period is complete.
• Develop procedures for transmission of information and files within the school or to the next school.

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