CHAT - Effective Itinerant Strategies (August 2023)

From Whitney Creekmore to Host and Panelists: Odessa, Tx

From Yevernett Anderson to Everyone: Houston

From Zoom user to Everyone: Houston

From Taylor Mobley to Host and Panelists: Thler

From Taylor Mobley to Host and Panelists: *tyler

From Kate Borg (she/her) to Host and Panelists: Hi from Austin!

From Christina Abbracciavento to Everyone: Good morning from Australia.

From stephanie graham to Host and Panelists: Ontario

From dorothy Vetrano to Everyone: Hello from Houston!

From James Kadlecek to Everyone: Plano ISD!!

From Alli Hintz to Everyone: Vancouver, Washington

From Gail Avey to Everyone: Round Rock!

From April Vernon to Everyone: Cleburne

From Kate Borg (she/her) to Everyone: HI from Austin!

From Julie McEnderfer to Everyone: Washington State-Pasco

From Amanda Perez to Everyone: Weatherford ISD

From LeAnna MacDonald to Host and Panelists: Omaha, NE

From Shawn Gumeny to Everyone: New Jersey!

From James Kadlecek to Everyone: Hello All!

From Katie Fromholt to Everyone: Kentucky

From lblackm3@houstonisd.org to Everyone: Hello from Houston!

From Emily Murrell to Host and Panelists: Utah 🙂

From Judy Alford to Host and Panelists: East TN

From Allana Pierce to Everyone: Vancouver, Canadad

From Tonya Arnold to Everyone: Tonya from Arkansas

From Jessica Hart to Everyone: Hello, from San Antonio, TX

From Patricia Turner to Everyone: From Cincinnati!

From Tamara Black to Everyone: San Francisco, Calilfornia

From Kirstyn Martino to Everyone: Hello from Michigan!

From Franchesca S to Everyone: Las Vegas, NV

From Amanda Davis to Everyone: Kingwood

From Lana Hityle to Everyone: Dodge City KS area

From Amy Lindstrom to Everyone: Hi from Buffalo, NY

From Jill Cribbs to Everyone: Weatherford TX

From Gloria BanksRichmond to Everyone: Houston, TX

From Claudia Randolph to Everyone: hi! Albuquerque NM

From Theresa Brousseau to Everyone: Hello from Syracuse, NY

From Debra Fournier-Pursel to Host and Panelists: Buenas tardes de Cotacachi, Ecuador

From Brittany Smith to Everyone: New Caney ISD

From Elsa Hernandez to Everyone: Hello from El Paso TX

From Hillary Keys to Everyone: Dallas, TX 👋🏻

From Kaycee Bennett to Everyone: Today’s handout: https://tsbvi.live/coffeehour

From Michelle Stokes to Everyone: Grand Prairie Isd

From Michelle Stokes to Host and Panelists: I was present when training came on but was talking to teacher and missed opening code.

From Angela Howe to Everyone: Grand Prairie, TX

From teresa sanders to Everyone: Teresa Sanders,

From Chrissy Cowan to Everyone: 3 times a year

From Kaycee Bennett to Michelle Stokes, Host and Panelists: There is no opening code

From Lucy Vega to Host and Panelists: Lucy Vega

From Michelle Stokes to Host and Panelists: thanks

From Debra Fournier-Pursel to Everyone: Buenas tardes de Cotacachi, Ecuador

From Kaycee Bennett to Everyone: Today’s handout: https://tsbvi.live/coffeehour

From dorothy Vetrano to Everyone: Definitely...especially when it comes to technology

From Elsa Hernandez to Everyone: Yes with technology

From stephanie graham to Host and Panelists: Yes learning French accents in braille

From Tamara Black to Everyone: I feel like I am constantly learning/teaching myself new things!

From Athleen Simmonds to Host and Panelists: Yes

From dorothy Vetrano to Everyone: I can't believe I'm admitting this to you all... but Its sad when a VI student is teaching me how to use my Iphone

From Emily Murrell to Everyone: It makes me want to be a better teacher and learn things more deeply to better know what to suggest and how to do it for the team.

From Gloria BanksRichmond to Everyone: No shame in learning from the students.  It is a TEAM

From dorothy Vetrano to Everyone: Thanks Gloria...you are right!

From Angela Howe to Everyone: I had to learn basic music braille, for an elementary student.  Grateful the music teacher understood music braille.

From teresa sanders to Everyone: Same here on the iPhone.  I have a past student that I often call for technology help.

From Kate Borg (she/her) to Everyone: I feel this so hard

From Gloria BanksRichmond to Everyone: That's the exciting part of being an VI; learning new things; thinking out the box.  Music brl awesome!

From Amanda Burrows to Everyone: This is me right now.

From Margaret Howell to Everyone: I do not think the stress every goes away from year to year. There are so many variables.

From Kate Borg (she/her) to Everyone: Stressed backwards is desserts, which is why I eat a lot of ice cream

From Angela Howe to Everyone: I'm with you Kate!

From dorothy Vetrano to Everyone: Love that Kate!!!

From Katie Fromholt to Everyone: Awesome resource!

From Chrissy Cowan to Everyone: Unfortunately, only current SFA/TTU students enrolled in O&M and/or VI coursework can attend a Mentor Center, as well as those who are assigned a mentor.

From Gloria BanksRichmond to Everyone: Love @KateB stressed backwards is desserts 👍🏽

From Debra Fournier-Pursel to Everyone: If you care about your students, you’ll stress over them

From Marcus French to Everyone: Do you have to become a mentor to attend?

From Chrissy Cowan to Everyone: Only currently enrolled TTU/SFA students can attend.

From Chrissy Cowan to Everyone: Anyone can access the LiveBinder

From Gloria BanksRichmond to Everyone: Using this guide in August is done usually during the staff development time when you are in the office.  It works!  Even if you start in the middle of the year.  This live binder is a godsent!  Thanks Chrissy!

From Chrissy Cowan to Everyone: That is correct

From Helen Dionne to Everyone: What is FIE and ARD?

From Margaret Howell to Everyone: FIE is Functional Individual Evaluation.

From MICHAEL MUNRO to Everyone: ARD is IEP meeting

From Gloria BanksRichmond to Everyone: Annual/Admission Review Dismiss

From Debra Fournier-Pursel to Everyone: ARD stands for Admission, Review and Dismissal which are what you do at an IEP meeting.

From Debra Fournier-Pursel to Everyone: FIE is Full Individual Evaluation

From Shannon Miles to Everyone: Yes, like my "at a glance" info. needed on paper.

From Shannon Miles to Everyone: Oops, meant to say, "info at a glance" for a student on paper. :)

From Brittany Smith to Everyone: At the beginning of the year I send classroom teachers a little “strident snapshot” slide show. Sometimes I have students create it!

From Brittany Smith to Everyone: *student

From Gloria BanksRichmond to Everyone: Texas calls them Diagnostician: Case Manager

From Debra Fournier-Pursel to Everyone: Some Diagnosticians are case managers. Some are not. It depends on the district

From Gloria BanksRichmond to Everyone: @Debra okey

From Debra Fournier-Pursel to Everyone: I’m a diag who is not a case manager.

From Julie McEnderfer to Everyone: Many teachers really struggle with our roles.

From Kaycee Bennett to Everyone: Today’s handout: https://tsbvi.live/coffeehour

From Heather Withrow to Host and Panelists: Oh that is so cool! Like!

From Gloria BanksRichmond to Everyone: @Rachel C. I like the google forms. Thanks for the idea!

From Yevernett Anderson to Host and Panelists: Hi Kaycee can you send me a survey at the end of this session; ymateacher@aol.com; I missed the registration before it closed.

From Kaycee Bennett to Yevernett Anderson, Host and Panelists: Hi, unfortunately I can't. The system has to do all of that and once enrollment is closed, there isn't a way for me to add you in.

From Gregory Gerhart to Everyone: Microsoft Onenote

From Shelley Snook to Everyone: OneNote

From Lana Hityle to Everyone: Google kerp

From Mary Boger to Host and Panelists: OneNote is AWESOME!!!!

From Rhonda Riley to Everyone: WE use Google Docs

From Amanda Perez to Everyone: we use google docs

From Alli Hintz to Everyone: I created a simple Google Doc Teacher Interview form and one for parents as well.

From Helen Dionne to Everyone: Is OneNote more secure than Google?

From Heather Withrow to Host and Panelists: Love this!

From Gloria BanksRichmond to Everyone: Did you as the VI initiated the team planning with the core teacher?

From Gloria BanksRichmond to Everyone: and service providers/

From Chrissy Cowan to Everyone: Chrissy Cowan here.  I'm always looking for ways to augment my LiveBinder.  If you have forms or documents you think should be featured, please send them to me.  cowanc@tsbvi.edu

From Gloria BanksRichmond to Everyone: GRT!

From Gloria BanksRichmond to Everyone: I agree, it will be for the betterment of the student.  We are serving the student.  So much can be covered with the team approach.  Services providers not in competition but working together.  All plays an important part.

From Judy Dingler to Everyone: I am loving all of these example's. I want to update my (outdated) current system. How can we access these handouts/examples?

From Kaycee Bennett to Everyone: Today’s handout: https://tsbvi.live/coffeehour

From Debra Fournier-Pursel to Everyone: It makes service time objective and not subjective

From Debra Fournier-Pursel to Everyone: An academic braille student is very time consuming

From Shannon Miles to Everyone: Yes!  This has always been very hard for me and this VISSIT helps!

From Rhonda Riley to Everyone: Is there any way we can get a copy of the scale service time that you use

From Kaycee Bennett to Everyone: Today’s handout: https://tsbvi.live/coffeehour

From Kirstyn Martino to Everyone: As a new "active learning specialist," I agree that making active learning materials can be time consuming, but so worth it!

From Rhonda Riley to Everyone: Thanks so much

From Gregory Gerhart to Everyone: Excellent presentation. Thank you for sharing today.

From Lucy Vega to Host and Panelists: Thank you so much, great information (^_^)

From Brittany Smith to Everyone: Thanks, there were some good tidbits in here today 😊

From lblackm3@houstonisd.org to Everyone: Great presentation! Thank you so much!

From teresa sanders to Everyone: Great Information, Thank you!!

From Shannon Miles to Everyone: Thanks Rachel for including all of these resources on your handout.  Thanks for sharing your experiences too!

From Debra Fournier-Pursel to Everyone: Thank you

From Amanda Burrows to Everyone: Thank you

From Vishali Malhotra to Host and Panelists: Thank you!

From Amy Lindstrom to Everyone: Thank you!  This was very helpful!