Accessing Professional Supports

Saskatchewan Guidelines for School Division Professional Services

Professional supports may include, but are not limited to speech-language pathologists, psychologists, social workers and occupational therapists. Professionals are required to maintain standing with their specific regulatory body and to adhere to professional practice guidelines and ethics for their profession’s practice in Saskatchewan.

From the Government of Saskatchewan and available at saskatchewan.ca

This is a collection of one page handouts on a variety of accommodation tools that can be used with students. These supporting documents were created at The Sun West Distance Learning Centre (DLC), but are intended for use by all teachers.

This graphic was designed to support Sun West Triads (Administrator, PeBL Mentor & Student Support Teacher) while navigating their way through the Response to Intervention (RTI) process.

"This document, The Adaptive Dimension for K-12 Students (2023) is a renewal of the foundational document The Adaptive Dimension for K-12 Students (2017) and its predecessor The Adaptive Dimension in Core Curriculum (1992). The Adaptive Dimension for K-12 Students (2023) is designed to assist educators in making decisions to support the achievement of all students within the context of Saskatchewan’s curricula."These documents are from the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education.

This document is the planning template for Triads when examining student programming and classroom supports.

Select the student behaviour to begin. Then you will work through a series of descriptions and suggestions for what you can do to help that student.

You can look at interventions for Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3.

Each intervention suggested for a behaviour is then "clickable" and more information is provided on why to use this intervention, and how to do it.

This site is amazing!

Starting off the year strong by building relationships and trust with parents through an early welcome. This video was created by Jessica Wall and Pam Sawatzky for the 2021-22 Sun West iLearn sessions.A strategy guide for educators is also included. 

The Comprehensive School Health (CSH) Hub is a community for individuals involved in teaching, learning, and researching CSH at the post-secondary level.

There are a wealth of K-12 resources available on this site for health. Select the Resources tab, and then select K-12 or copy and pasted this web address into your browser https://cshhub.com/resource_type/csh-resources/

Topics include:
*Healthy Eating
*Physical Activity
*Mental Health for students
*Mental Health for teachers

"What is Creatability?

Creatability is a set of experiments made in collaboration with creators and allies in the accessibility community. They explore how creative tools – drawing, music, and more – can be made more accessible using web and AI technology. They’re just a start. We’re sharing open-source code and tutorials for others to make their own projects."

This short video will give you a good introduction here https://youtu.be/c5-bHJqtQS0 (copy and paste the url into your browser).

The following presentation and resource was used to help create a shared vision with Sun West Triads (Administor, PeBL Mentor & Student Support Teacher).

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When reviewing curricula for Tier I instruction, it is essential to ensure they do not include instructional practices that are not aligned with the scientific evidence base of how children learn to read.
The Curriculum Evaluation Guidelines are designed to highlight any non-aligned practices, or “red flags,” that may be present in the areas of:
- Word Recognition
- Language Comprehension
- Reading Comprehension
- Writing
- Assessment

A young man's passive attitude towards mental health and suicide is changed when he wakes up one morning with a mysterious backpack attached to his body... All of the money this short film makes will be donated to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Donate here: https://afsp.donordrive.com

A resource to help school divisions, teachers and education professionals better understand and support students whoa re gender and/or sexually diverse. It provides teaching resources and information for administrative resources. It is also available in French.

This 9 minute video explores the importance of relationships in learning.

In the Journal of Student Engagement (2012) Lauren Liberante writes: “The teacher–student relationship is one of the most powerful elements within the learning...

"This page pulls together lots of tools and resources to help you get the most out of Microsoft's inclusive tools for the classroom."

This is a cheat sheet on how to access CLEVER for student support teachers.

During the 2019-2020 Professional Learning Communities in Sun West, the Early Learning/Phonological Awareness PLC created this recourse to help Teachers in their ELA programming with an overview of learning to read.
This continuum may also be helpful to parents, Educational Assistants, and other people in a student's educational team!