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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
 

The staff at IEPWriter would like to wish everyone a safe and prosperous year filled with positivity. We hope you are excited about things to come... We certainly are!

Remember: As you grow, we scale our solutions with you.

 
 
 
 
EASE OF USE
 
 
FLEXIBILITY
 
 
SCALABILITY
 
 
 
WHAT'S NEW.
 
 
 
Take a sneak peek of IEPWriter enhancements for the 2020-2021 school year. We hope to see you for a live preview at our Spring Focus Group meetings, listed in this email.
 
GENERAL 
  • Student Search screen: allow sorting for MA column
  • Add ability to restrict export for a related (non-billable) Medicaid service (✔)
  • New notification event: finalized ER/RR
  • Staff Search: addition of first name
  • Search Text Bank: add multiple select features
  • New revision warning: upon user addition of new services on a start date
    matching the original IEP
  • Ability to add attachments to Gifted IEP and 504 service agreement
  • Increase file size limit for uploads (✔)
  • Student transfer/accepting a new student: create direct access option
    for student demographic data
  • Student transfer: carry over Children Count data and grade history
  • Notification option to control transfer request recipients
NOREP
  • Ability to track multiple sent dates
  • Addition of Spanish version
STaR
  • Creation of a third view: Calendar Schedule
  • Interface with School Calendars for transparency of absences, etc.
  • New report: Expected minutes of service for student, by service type.
    (*based on entered related services and school calendar)
  • District option to disallow log input (by provider type), if exceeding IEP time.
  • Student Encounter Time Report: addition of Provider and Group by Provider
  • Add active and inactive dates to rosters that would also tie into STaR
  • Add SSP time
  • Staff: add agency information and ability to pull reports, per agency
  • Add new role: Intervener (✔)
  • Encounter screen: STaR-related service drop-down list populated by
    path of student (El. or School Age)
 
 
 
IEP FORM CHANGES.
 
 
 

In the December 16, Penn*Link, we learned about changes to the PASA section of the IEP. Once the revised format is posted in February, Leader Services will review and make appropriate updates to IEPWriter. When the updates are available, users will be notified
via the "IEPWriter News" section.

 
 
UPCOMING EVENTS.
 
 
 
 
PETE&C | 2.23.20 - 2.26.20
 
David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
PDE Conference | 3.9.20 - 3.11.20
 
Hershey Lodge & Convention Center
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
data summit | 3.15.20 - 3.18.20
 
Hershey Lodge & Convention Center
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
PARSS Conference | 4.29.20 - 5.1.20
 
Wyndham Garden Hotel, State College
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
PA IU Annual Conference | 5.27.20 - 5.29.20
 
Seven Springs, Somerset County
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SAVE THE DATE.  
 
 
 

Below are the dates of our 2020 Spring Focus Groups. Your input matters. This is where everyone gets a first look at any IEPWriter enhancements we plan to release in summer. We will send out a reminder email sometime in early April. For all meetings:

Registration begins at 9:30 am | Meetings run from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm.

 

 
 
TUESDAY, MAY 5 APPALACHIA IU #8
Training Rooms A & B
 
 
 
 
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6 INTERMEDIATE UNIT #1
Room 119 B
 
 
 
 
THURSDAY, MAY 14 MIDWESTERN IU #4
LGI 1 & 2
 
 
 
 
FRIDAY, MAY 15 ALLEGHENY IU #3
Sullivan Room
 
 
 
 
TUESDAY, MAY 19 LUZERNE IU #18
3rd Floor Auditorium
 
 
 
 
THURSDAY, MAY 21 MONTGOMERY CO. IU #23
Valley Forge Rooms A, B, & C
 
 
 
 
FRIDAY, MAY 22
CAPITAL AREA IU #15
Keystone Room
 
 
 
 
 

FIREFOX PDF VIEWER INSTRUCTIONS

 
 
 
 
If you're having difficulty opening PDFs in Acrobat
(from a browser), switch back to the Acrobat plug-in:
 
CLICK TOOLS > OPTIONS
(ON A MAC, CLICK FIREFOX > PREFERENCES).
 
 
IN THE OPTIONS DIALOGUE BOX, SCROLL DOWN UNDER GENERAL, TO APPLICATIONS
 
 
scroll down to "portable document format"
 
 

Click "preview with firefox" and select

"use adobe reader (in firefox)."

Click "ok."

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
GET EXCITED.
 
 
 

We’ve been busy. Our applications aren’t the only things with enhancements… We’re getting a makeover! Leader Services has a new booth, and some fresh IEPWriter marketing materials, too. Plus, over the next several months, our corporate website, as well as the public IEPWriter site, is being overhauled. That’s not all… Look out for us on Facebook and LinkedIn so we can engage with you even more. We’re really looking forward to providing helpful information in new ways. Stay tuned!

 
 
 
 
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