In this Guide for Admins, we’ll talk about how to use Cc to support students with IEPs and 504 plans. Cc helps to unify GenEd and SPED/ESOL teachers, so that students can get the accommodations they need most.
Pre-work: This guide assumes that you have set up a school account, invited your teachers, and that they have set up their planbooks. If you haven’t done this yet, check out our Cc for Admins video on Account Setup. And for your teachers, have them take a look at our Cc for Teachers video on Planbook Setup.
In this Guide, we’ll focus on:
How to use shared planbooks so that SPED and General Educators can complete their work within a single planbook.
With a shared planbook, teachers can co-plan at the same time, adding student-specific accommodations, as well as differentiated materials or practice sets.
How SPED or SPED supervisors can monitor a GenEd teacher’s planbook to ensure students are receiving daily accommodations.
To get started, a GenEd instructor can navigate to the planbook they would like to use for SPED co-planning. In most cases, this will be whatever planbook the gen ed teacher is using for the current year.
They can click on “Sharing and Class Website” and then add an individual collaborator by typing in the SPED teacher’s school email address and clicking “Share.”
At this point, A SPED teacher will see this planbook listed when they log into their account. With this access, they can click into the planbook and provide student-specific accommodations. To share differentiated materials, they can use the "Attach File" button for any card within a daily lesson.
Next, we’ll focus on how SPED or SPED supervisors can track and monitor student accomodations provided over time.
Let’s imagine that I’m a SPED supervisor and I want to ensure that a specific student is receiving accommodations that are outlined in their IEP.
I can click into the shared planbook that I want to check on and view the ‘Accommodations’ card to ensure that the GenEd teacher is including these modifications each day.
Even better, if I have questions or thoughts on the strategies used to support a student, I can hover over the card, click “Add a Comment”—I might say, “Was Kayla included in the small group reading?” and my question will trigger an email, notifying the teacher that I have left a comment on their plan.
From there, the teacher can then navigate to the comment in their planbook and send a reply back to me.
And there you have it: by unifying every teacher and sharing planbooks amongst GenED and SPED teachers, your instructors can ensure that every student is receiving the accommodations they deserve. And if you don’t see that happening, Admins and SPED Supervisors can easily reach out using the comment feature to address any gaps they notice. The result is a more collaborative planning culture—and one that supports every student’s unique needs.