Department Overview
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2022-2023
Combined Special Education and District GoalGoal #1: Facilitate and Support FAPE in the LRE
- Facilitate Department, Individual Teacher, and Child Study Team (CST-Elem) meetings, to monitor proficiency/performance on NWEA local assessments and collaborate with staff in the provision of academic and behavioral interventions that support Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) in the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) that Mercer Area Schools provide.
2022-2023 Elementary School Goal
Goal #2: Facilitate and Lead Informative Teacher Focus Groups Designed to Enhance Student Achievement in the K-6 Elementary School
- Create and facilitate Teacher Focus Groups through our Child Study Team (CST) in the fall, winter and spring to develop and provide interventions to all elementary students for addressing learning gaps in the LRE.
Goal #3: Contribute to the Implementation of Successful Early Interventions that would Support Improved Student Performance and Attendance in School.
- Lead research and examination of successful early interventions that would benefit our youngest students both academically and behaviorally and collaborate with educator teams to implementation researched-evidence-based, meaningful interventions to meet learning needs early-on.
Contact Us
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Mrs. Shirley Spiegel
Special Education Coordinator
724-662-5102
sspiegel@mercer.k12.pa.usMrs. Laura Shillito
Special Education Secretary
724-662-5102 ext. 3011
lshillito@mercer.k12.pa.us
Helpful Documents
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Click on each category title below to access the appropriate files
Public Awareness Notices
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Student Assessments
The Mercer Area School District intends to assess more than one percent of the total number of students assessed on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA), Keystone Exams, and Pennsylvania Alternate System of Assessment (PASA) using an alternate assessment during the 2019-2020 school year.
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Notification of Destruction of Student Special Education Records
Notification of Record Destruction - Mass Letter for December 18 2017 destruction of records.pdf 482.42 KB (Last Modified on November 1, 2017) -
Annual Public Notice of Special Education Services & Programs
2016-2017 SD Annual Public Notice of Special Education Services and Programs_3.pdf 247.21 KB (Last Modified on February 24, 2017) -
Services for Students in Non-Public School
Services for students in Non - Public School - 2018.pdf 108.1 KB (Last Modified on November 30, 2018) -
Special Education Plan Report
17-18 Special Education Comp Plan Mercer Area School First Reading.pdf 866.65 KB (Last Modified on March 20, 2018)
Services Provided Through The IU4
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Physical & Occupational Therapy Support
Related Service Occupational and Physical Therapy - 2018.pdf 188.71 KB (Last Modified on November 30, 2018)