Our Inclusive Education team will be sharing a variety of resources for families on this page - videos, handouts and links to provide you with information as well as activities you can do with your children at home.
IPP Day
IPP Day takes place around the end of September each year.
This is an opportunity for families to meet with their child’s teacher and other members of the Student Support Team to discuss their child’s Individual Program Plan (IPP). Teachers will be contacting parents of students who have IPPs to schedule meetings later this month.
Taking some time in advance to prepare for an IPP meeting can help the school team learn more about your child. Parents and guardians may want to make some notes about their child’s strengths, challenges, and daily experiences at home or after school. These insights provide valuable context for the school team. Sharing ongoing observations, ideas, concerns, and celebrations, can help to strengthen the plan and support student success.
The NLPS Inclusive Education Team has created a Preparing for an IPP Meeting document, which provides families with some ideas about what they may want to share at the meeting with school staff.
We look forward to meeting with families and working together to build plans that will help students learn and excel.
Learning with Playdough
Handouts
Soon, your child will be settled in their new classroom and starting an amazing year of learning and development. Besides the staff you see in the classroom, the team also includes Occupational Therapists (OT) and Occupational Therapy Assistants (OTA).
Don’t worry, you are not alone if you are not exactly sure what occupational therapy (OT) is or why your child might benefit from it. Occupational therapy helps people of all ages and focuses on developing, restoring, and/or maintaining skills and independence. “Occupation” is anything that you do in a day, not just your job! Collaboration between the parents and classroom staff determines where help is needed. If you ever have questions about any of these things, please mention them to the classroom staff. The classroom staff implements OT strategies and recommendations on a daily basis; they are wonderful!
You can learn more in our Welcome to Kindergarten - Occupational Therapy Handout.
Having a strong foundation for speech and language is important and influences your life
everyday in ways you might not even notice! Our team at Northern Lights Public Schools
consists of Speech Language Pathologists (SLPs) and Speech Language Assistants (SLPAs) through a combination of NLPS employees and contractors.
Learn more in our Welcome to Kindergarten - Speech and Language Services handout.
Our Reading Books for Social Emotional Development guide provides information on how you can use books to teach emotions, recommendations for books that support social emotional learning, and other activities that focus on learning about emotions.