Compliance Educational Systems

APPLICATION FEATURES and No Child Left Behind

CES enables districts to meet the requirements of NCLB through the following methods:

I. Letter System
II. Initial, Annual, and Re-evaluation Processes
III. IEP Writer
IV. Monitoring of IEP Interventions and Modifications
V. Statistical Analysis of Efficacy of Interventions
VI. Lesson Plans System of Monitoring IEP Benchmarks and Objectives
VII. Statistical Analysis of Goals, Objectives and Benchmarks
VIII. Creation of Learning/Forgetting Curve
IX. Internet Voice Recognition –Added Value Package
X. Research Collaboration Programs and Grant Programs

CES integration with Discovery Student Information System
(from Education Solutions Development ESD)

CES interfaces with these technologies
Additional Services Provided

I. Letter System
The letter system designed into the CES program is more than just a form and provides four unique features. First; The system is designed to take your letters and incorporate them into the system, while providing flexibility to update whenever necessary. In addition, a series of custom letters are available to you if you request them upon implementation. Second; the letter system can be translated into WORD as a document at the push of a button. Third; this allows e-mail transport and remote site review. But the most valuable aspect of the letter system is that it ties to anecdotal records for the student, automatically notifies all person needed to attend meetings, creates a diary entry, copy to parent and copy to file. Fourth; the letter is automatically processed at the appropriate time, so you never forget to send the proper written notice. Amazing, and all automatic, at one key touch.
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II. Initial, Annual, and Re-evaluation Processes
There are six unique features, which enable CES to guide you through the entire IEP process. First; the CES system takes you from the point of an initial referral for each particular student and documents in anecdotal records all the transactions and processes that occur for each student. Second; CES provides an automatic system for timely notification, contains a Determination for Evaluation Form, an Evaluation Plan, a Comprehensive Multi-Disciplinary Evaluation Report, and initial IEP for Special Education and Related Services. Second; An automated notification process lets each case manager know if he/she is out of compliance for any timeline, and it warns the case manger five days before any case goes out of compliance for any timeline or procedural safeguard issue. Third; all letters, diaries entries, scheduled meetings and participants, parental concerns, student progress measures, evaluation results, and determinations of eligibility are automatically recorded and entered into a system that begins to track all processes and student progress. Fourth; by providing special education evaluations and IEPs for all student, the CES program is able to develop of list of works in progress, reflecting for each case manager exactly where in the process of referral and evaluation every student assigned to them is. CES lets each case manager know exactly when and where a case will go out of compliance. This extraordinary feature enables every case manager to stay on top of the work process assigned. Fifth; CES automatically creates the ability to develop and/or record class lists, report cards, state and district test results, teacher concerns, and parent concerns in an on-going process. Sixth; CES provides a complete list of all Initial, Annual and Re-evaluation IEPs and lets you, as administrator, exactly where in the process each case is, by case-manager, by teacher, by grade. You have instant information at your finger tips to help you make informed judgments and decisions.
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III. IEP Writer
As the foundation of the entire management, system CES IEP writer is unique in four ways: format, data recording, use of district curriculum, and test modifications per student. First; The IEP writer system provides the ability to instantly record present level of performance for each student. This system provides an automatic means of generating information about a student via drop down windows. These drop-down windows can be updated at any time you decide to update options. You can also free form enter information into the system to clarify any student information. And, this system is completely compatible with WORD and that enables you to move the IEP into WORD, enabling you to develop a completely personalized IEP for each student, that can be transmitted through internet e-mail or PC. Second; CES records all grades, standardized test results, previous gains, evaluation results and parental concerns, and automatically records this information into the IEP, providing a complete recording of student progress on standardized tests. Third; The IEP integrates your district curriculum to assure that each special education student is working towards achievement of the regular education curriculum in your district. CES does this by taking your district curriculum and ties it to your state standards. Then CES uses this curriculum in the system for you to select the goals and objectives as they actually occur in a classroom. You can be confident that the objectives in the IEP are actually taught in the classroom, because they are your curriculum. Fourth; The CES system records all the interventions and recommendations for standardized testing and provides a complete list of every student who needs test modifications and/or accommodations by grade, by teacher, by class, by needed accommodation. How much easier can it be?
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IV. Monitoring of Interventions and Modifications
Each IEP program modifications and accommodations are captured and recorded into a secondary system which provides access to the classroom teacher(s) to document the implementation of the selected modifications and accommodations as they occur in the classroom, subject by subject, student by student. This actually provides the teacher an automated means of documenting the implementation of the IEP into the classroom. The teacher’s opinion is recorded in terms of whether or not the intervention was effective, along with anecdotal records, and teachers concerns. A complete report is available at the touch of a button. Everything completely documented, every time you need it.
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V. Statistical Analysis of Efficacy of Interventions
CES does not stop at merely recording the interventions in the classroom for each student. The next step is to statistically analyze the information and provide a complete report indicating the rate of success of each intervention, and to reflect to the team, which interventions are most helpful and which interventions are not working. In addition, this information is available to administrators, to help assess the effectiveness of teacher performance implementing the IEP interventions. This is the step towards demonstrating the efficacy of special education programs.
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VI. Lesson Plans System of Monitoring IEP Benchmarks and Objectives
The next step in demonstrating the efficacy of your special education programs is to tie your lesson plans directly to the objectives and benchmarks in each student’s IEP, and monitor each student’s progress on a daily basis. And, that is exactly what CES does. Through a simple yet efficient means, CES provides each teacher with the ability to write a lesson plan for the entire class that is also tailored to meet the demands of the IEP objectives and benchmarks for each student. Could it get any better?
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VII. Statistical Analysis of Goals, Objectives and Benchmarks
It could only get better if the information from the lesson plans were automatically recorded, along with each student's actual progress each day; and then these progress indicators were electronically analyzed to determine when each objective was actually met. Finally, CES provides a progress report automatically for each student, which reflects those objectives, presented in class, those mastered, those in progress, and those not yet attempted.
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VIII. Creation of Learning/Forgetting Curve
With all the information you can create a learning curve for any student you track. Want to know how long it should take to complete a specific task? Well, with all the data CES tracks for you, its as easy as pushing a few buttons. Just compare the progress reports with the modifications and accommodations analyses, and the lesson plans reports and there you have it. The ability to chart data to help you create a learning curve for any student. Are you sure you want to use CES just to track your special education students? Can you imagine having this kind of data at your fingertips when discussing a gifted student’s progress and needs? Can you imagine how parents would feel knowing that you are using ‘state of the art’ applications to maximize their child’s performance? Now, all you need is a way to monitor parent satisfaction.
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IX. Internet Voice Recognition –Added Value Package
Education policy makers at all levels are aware of the crucial role families and the community plays in the education of children. This is apparent in the Title I, Special Education, Head Start, and other federal programs that mandate consultation and collaboration with families. However, many families feel educational decisions are actually made by other people who either fail to understand the issues involved or who simply have control of the funds. Many schools are achieving less than satisfactory results for their students who receive special education services. Many families would like to be more involved with their student's outcomes, but are unable to do so because they lack access to the information required to be effective participants. When parents and families are involved in their children’s education, their children do better in school and their school improves as well. As an added value feature, CES is able to offer the Ed.Trac IVR System to your district. Ed.Trac is dedicated to building successful Family/School Partnerships incorporating field-tested methodologies for enhancing parent participation, overcoming barriers, and developing effective school/parent partnership programs. This internet voice recognition system can facilitate parents, teachers, administrators, and community leaders working together to strengthen relationships between schools and parents by: Creating opportunities for parents to exchange information, share in decision-making, and collaborate in children’s learning Creating viable systems that encourage family participation by those who might have low-level literacy skills and/or for whom English is not their primary language Setting clear and measurable student objectives based on parent and community input that foster cooperation and communication between families, communities, and schools Using user-friendly, creative forms of communication for families that are personal and make optimal use of new communication technologies Quantitatively evaluating the effectiveness of family involvement programs and activities on a regular basis.
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X. Research Collaboration Programs and Grant Programs
The final feature that CES enables is a collaborative research program through major universities. As a user of the system, CES invites you to join with other districts across the country to assist in the development of the largest data based research project in special education designed to establish best practices for demonstrating the efficacy of special education programs. This research project embraces several levels of involvement for a district from simply benefiting from all the information gleaned from the data regarding best practices, to actually participating in the research project by providing data from you district that will be compiled with many other districts data and utilized to assess best practices. For example, we might be able to answer questions like this: ‘What reading program is most beneficial for a 14 year old male with an FSIQ of 100, and reading level of 3.0, and who has not made any significant progress in other reading programs over the last two years?’ By compiling all our data together, the wealth of information we will receive has never been achieved before in special education. Joining CES will put you on the cutting edge.
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CES integration with

Discovery Student Information System:

Discovery is a comprehensive student information system that can operate in tandem with the CES Special Education System.

For administrators and counselors Discovery operates online throughout all District buildings. Full student information is stored in a central SQL database (on Windows NT or XP servers) with no requirement for file consolidations. Hundreds of Crystal Reports can be produced from this central data warehouse at any time for the Board or the State.

Using the in-District Web connection, if there are workstations on every teacher's desk, you can collect hourly attendance, grades, skill assessments, and other data through common browser forms that display or collect the data.

Class lists and schedules are visible to all teachers. Administrative screens enable individuals and groups to be allowed or denied access to various screens or data element groups that require special secured access.

Click here to peruse sample Discovery screens related to attendance, discipline, scheduling, demographics, medical, enrollment, transcripts, and state reporting.

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CES interfaces with the following technologies:
• PC/Network/.NET/ SQL/browser/CITRIX/Laptop integration for system use,
• Laplink/remote diagnostic and upgrade capabilities,
• WORD processing edit features,
• WINDOWS 95-2000 Local Area Networks/Wide Area Network,
• Digital Imaging of Student Products
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Additional Services Provided:
• Quarterly Newsletter,
• Toll Free Hotline,
• Modem Support,
• Fax Support,
• Enhancement Upgrades,
• Maintenance Releases,
• User Group,
• Think Tank dedicated to Research and Demonstrating Efficacy of Special Education Programs,
• Dial Up Support,
• Internet e-mail support,
• Training for all assigned Staff, distance learning, CD tutorial
• Web Availability,
• Independent Report and List Programming by Query in ACCESS
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	APPLICATION FEATURES and No Child Left Behind CES enables districts to meet the requirements of NCLB through the following methods: I. Letter System II. Initial, Annual, and Re-evaluation Processes III. IEP Writer IV. Monitoring of IEP Interventions and Modifications V. Statistical Analysis of Efficacy of Interventions VI. Lesson Plans System of Monitoring IEP Benchmarks and Objectives VII. Statistical Analysis of Goals, Objectives and Benchmarks VIII. Creation of Learning/Forgetting Curve IX. Internet Voice Recognition –Added Value Package X. Research Collaboration Programs and Grant Programs CES integration with Discovery Student Information System (from Education Solutions Development ESD) CES interfaces with these technologies Additional Services Provided I. Letter System The letter system designed into the CES program is more than just a form and provides four unique features. First; The system is designed to take your letters and incorporate them into the system, while providing flexibility to update whenever necessary. In addition, a series of custom letters are available to you if you request them upon implementation. Second; the letter system can be translated into WORD as a document at the push of a button. Third; this allows e-mail transport and remote site review. But the most valuable aspect of the letter system is that it ties to anecdotal records for the student, automatically notifies all person needed to attend meetings, creates a diary entry, copy to parent and copy to file. Fourth; the letter is automatically processed at the appropriate time, so you never forget to send the proper written notice. Amazing, and all automatic, at one key touch. (back to top) II. Initial, Annual, and Re-evaluation Processes There are six unique features, which enable CES to guide you through the entire IEP process. First; the CES system takes you from the point of an initial referral for each particular student and documents in anecdotal records all the transactions and processes that occur for each student. Second; CES provides an automatic system for timely notification, contains a Determination for Evaluation Form, an Evaluation Plan, a Comprehensive Multi-Disciplinary Evaluation Report, and initial IEP for Special Education and Related Services. Second; An automated notification process lets each case manager know if he/she is out of compliance for any timeline, and it warns the case manger five days before any case goes out of compliance for any timeline or procedural safeguard issue. Third; all letters, diaries entries, scheduled meetings and participants, parental concerns, student progress measures, evaluation results, and determinations of eligibility are automatically recorded and entered into a system that begins to track all processes and student progress. Fourth; by providing special education evaluations and IEPs for all student, the CES program is able to develop of list of works in progress, reflecting for each case manager exactly where in the process of referral and evaluation every student assigned to them is. CES lets each case manager know exactly when and where a case will go out of compliance. This extraordinary feature enables every case manager to stay on top of the work process assigned. Fifth; CES automatically creates the ability to develop and/or record class lists, report cards, state and district test results, teacher concerns, and parent concerns in an on-going process. Sixth; CES provides a complete list of all Initial, Annual and Re-evaluation IEPs and lets you, as administrator, exactly where in the process each case is, by case-manager, by teacher, by grade. You have instant information at your finger tips to help you make informed judgments and decisions. (back to top) III. IEP Writer As the foundation of the entire management, system CES IEP writer is unique in four ways: format, data recording, use of district curriculum, and test modifications per student. First; The IEP writer system provides the ability to instantly record present level of performance for each student. This system provides an automatic means of generating information about a student via drop down windows. These drop-down windows can be updated at any time you decide to update options. You can also free form enter information into the system to clarify any student information. And, this system is completely compatible with WORD and that enables you to move the IEP into WORD, enabling you to develop a completely personalized IEP for each student, that can be transmitted through internet e-mail or PC. Second; CES records all grades, standardized test results, previous gains, evaluation results and parental concerns, and automatically records this information into the IEP, providing a complete recording of student progress on standardized tests. Third; The IEP integrates your district curriculum to assure that each special education student is working towards achievement of the regular education curriculum in your district. CES does this by taking your district curriculum and ties it to your state standards. Then CES uses this curriculum in the system for you to select the goals and objectives as they actually occur in a classroom. You can be confident that the objectives in the IEP are actually taught in the classroom, because they are your curriculum. Fourth; The CES system records all the interventions and recommendations for standardized testing and provides a complete list of every student who needs test modifications and/or accommodations by grade, by teacher, by class, by needed accommodation. How much easier can it be? (back to top) IV. Monitoring of Interventions and Modifications Each IEP program modifications and accommodations are captured and recorded into a secondary system which provides access to the classroom teacher(s) to document the implementation of the selected modifications and accommodations as they occur in the classroom, subject by subject, student by student. This actually provides the teacher an automated means of documenting the implementation of the IEP into the classroom. The teacher’s opinion is recorded in terms of whether or not the intervention was effective, along with anecdotal records, and teachers concerns. A complete report is available at the touch of a button. Everything completely documented, every time you need it. (back to top) V. Statistical Analysis of Efficacy of Interventions CES does not stop at merely recording the interventions in the classroom for each student. The next step is to statistically analyze the information and provide a complete report indicating the rate of success of each intervention, and to reflect to the team, which interventions are most helpful and which interventions are not working. In addition, this information is available to administrators, to help assess the effectiveness of teacher performance implementing the IEP interventions. This is the step towards demonstrating the efficacy of special education programs. (back to top) VI. Lesson Plans System of Monitoring IEP Benchmarks and Objectives The next step in demonstrating the efficacy of your special education programs is to tie your lesson plans directly to the objectives and benchmarks in each student’s IEP, and monitor each student’s progress on a daily basis. And, that is exactly what CES does. Through a simple yet efficient means, CES provides each teacher with the ability to write a lesson plan for the entire class that is also tailored to meet the demands of the IEP objectives and benchmarks for each student. Could it get any better? (back to top) VII. Statistical Analysis of Goals, Objectives and Benchmarks It could only get better if the information from the lesson plans were automatically recorded, along with each student's actual progress each day; and then these progress indicators were electronically analyzed to determine when each objective was actually met. Finally, CES provides a progress report automatically for each student, which reflects those objectives, presented in class, those mastered, those in progress, and those not yet attempted. (back to top) VIII. Creation of Learning/Forgetting Curve With all the information you can create a learning curve for any student you track. Want to know how long it should take to complete a specific task? Well, with all the data CES tracks for you, its as easy as pushing a few buttons. Just compare the progress reports with the modifications and accommodations analyses, and the lesson plans reports and there you have it. The ability to chart data to help you create a learning curve for any student. Are you sure you want to use CES just to track your special education students? Can you imagine having this kind of data at your fingertips when discussing a gifted student’s progress and needs? Can you imagine how parents would feel knowing that you are using ‘state of the art’ applications to maximize their child’s performance? Now, all you need is a way to monitor parent satisfaction. (back to top) IX. Internet Voice Recognition –Added Value Package Education policy makers at all levels are aware of the crucial role families and the community plays in the education of children. This is apparent in the Title I, Special Education, Head Start, and other federal programs that mandate consultation and collaboration with families. However, many families feel educational decisions are actually made by other people who either fail to understand the issues involved or who simply have control of the funds. Many schools are achieving less than satisfactory results for their students who receive special education services. Many families would like to be more involved with their student's outcomes, but are unable to do so because they lack access to the information required to be effective participants. When parents and families are involved in their children’s education, their children do better in school and their school improves as well. As an added value feature, CES is able to offer the Ed.Trac IVR System to your district. Ed.Trac is dedicated to building successful Family/School Partnerships incorporating field-tested methodologies for enhancing parent participation, overcoming barriers, and developing effective school/parent partnership programs. This internet voice recognition system can facilitate parents, teachers, administrators, and community leaders working together to strengthen relationships between schools and parents by: Creating opportunities for parents to exchange information, share in decision-making, and collaborate in children’s learning Creating viable systems that encourage family participation by those who might have low-level literacy skills and/or for whom English is not their primary language Setting clear and measurable student objectives based on parent and community input that foster cooperation and communication between families, communities, and schools Using user-friendly, creative forms of communication for families that are personal and make optimal use of new communication technologies Quantitatively evaluating the effectiveness of family involvement programs and activities on a regular basis. (back to top) X. Research Collaboration Programs and Grant Programs The final feature that CES enables is a collaborative research program through major universities. As a user of the system, CES invites you to join with other districts across the country to assist in the development of the largest data based research project in special education designed to establish best practices for demonstrating the efficacy of special education programs. This research project embraces several levels of involvement for a district from simply benefiting from all the information gleaned from the data regarding best practices, to actually participating in the research project by providing data from you district that will be compiled with many other districts data and utilized to assess best practices. For example, we might be able to answer questions like this: ‘What reading program is most beneficial for a 14 year old male with an FSIQ of 100, and reading level of 3.0, and who has not made any significant progress in other reading programs over the last two years?’ By compiling all our data together, the wealth of information we will receive has never been achieved before in special education. Joining CES will put you on the cutting edge. (back to top) CES integration with Discovery Student Information System: Discovery is a comprehensive student information system that can operate in tandem with the CES Special Education System. For administrators and counselors Discovery operates online throughout all District buildings. Full student information is stored in a central SQL database (on Windows NT or XP servers) with no requirement for file consolidations. Hundreds of Crystal Reports can be produced from this central data warehouse at any time for the Board or the State. Using the in-District Web connection, if there are workstations on every teacher's desk, you can collect hourly attendance, grades, skill assessments, and other data through common browser forms that display or collect the data. Class lists and schedules are visible to all teachers. Administrative screens enable individuals and groups to be allowed or denied access to various screens or data element groups that require special secured access. Click here to peruse sample Discovery screens related to attendance, discipline, scheduling, demographics, medical, enrollment, transcripts, and state reporting. (back to top) CES interfaces with the following technologies: • PC/Network/.NET/ SQL/browser/CITRIX/Laptop integration for system use, • Laplink/remote diagnostic and upgrade capabilities, • WORD processing edit features, • WINDOWS 95-2000 Local Area Networks/Wide Area Network, • Digital Imaging of Student Products (back to top) Additional Services Provided: • Quarterly Newsletter, • Toll Free Hotline, • Modem Support, • Fax Support, • Enhancement Upgrades, • Maintenance Releases, • User Group, • Think Tank dedicated to Research and Demonstrating Efficacy of Special Education Programs, • Dial Up Support, • Internet e-mail support, • Training for all assigned Staff, distance learning, CD tutorial • Web Availability, • Independent Report and List Programming by Query in ACCESS (back to top)