SEPAC Past Meetings

2024-2025 Past Meetings (format noted below)

• September 26, 2024 (virtual) - Agenda below:

• Welcome - Introduce Committee Members, Website, Email, Facebook page

• Introduce SPED PVCICS team

• What is SEPAC?

• What can we do? 

• Survey results 

• Open discussion/Q&A

• Online link: https://meet.google.com/vrb-mqxx-byz

  or dial: ‪(US) +1 321-804-3924‬ PIN: ‪451 236 067‬#

• October 2, 2024 - Annual Parents’s Rights Meeting, click for slides.

• November 19, 2024 - Parent Support Group meeting. Agenda below:

  • Opening, introduce SEPAC Team (5 mins) 

  • Update from Admin on Staff/Resources (10 minutes) 

  • Parent Questions for Admin (15 mins) 

  • SEPAC Update for Parents online resources (5 mins) 

  • Parent Support Session/Open Dialogue (30-45 mins)

  • In person at the Holyoke Library Meeting Room, 250 Chestnut St Holyoke

  • Online link: https://meet.google.com/hnv-efad-qdj 

     or dial: ‪(US) +1 240-816-0014 PIN: ‪775 150 779#

• January 22, 2025, 9:00-10:30 AM, Holyoke Public Library with virtual link:

  • Online link: https://meet.google.com/hnv-efad-qdj

    Or dial: ‪(US) +1 240-816-0014‬ PIN: ‪775 150 779‬#

• February 12, 2025, 6:00 PM, BSEA Mediation with Steven Archibald, via Zoom (details below)

  • Zoom Meeting

    https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82932990152?pwd=lbGzfgVuZrS5TX4qLTeHt7EcbM8b8I.1

     

    Meeting ID: 829 3299 0152

    Passcode: 6XpV6C 

    One tap mobile

    +16469313860,,82932990152#,,,,*861486# US

    +19292056099,,82932990152#,,,,*861486# US (New York)

     

• May 8, 2025, 5:30-7:00 PM, in person at the Holyoke Library Meeting Room, 250 Chestnut St Holyoke.  An online link will be sent shortly.

• June 12, 2025, 7:00-8:30 PM, virtual only, Google Meet Link:
  Video call link: https://meet.google.com/hnv-efad-qdj
  Or dial: ‪(US) +1 240-816-0014‬ PIN: ‪775 150 779‬#

2023-2024 Past Meetings (virtual)

• October 4, 2023 - Annual Parents’s Rights Meeting, click for slides.

• November 14, 2023 - DESE TFM Parent Orientation, 9:00-10:00 AM. DESE is conducting a Parent Orientation presentation about the upcoming Tiered Focused Monitoring Review (TFM). Click to join virtual meeting. DESE Parent Resource page, click and look at Group B.

• December 13, 2023 - How to Read an IEP (New DESE Form). Click to join virtual meeting.

  Click here for the slides. This DESE webpage has the blank new form (ver. 4/2023) in English and other languages.

• March 27, 2024 - Empowering Youth: Exploring AI Tools for Learning, Storytelling, and Enrichment. For description, click here. For slides, click here.

• June 5, 2024 - End of Year, Q&A

2022-2023 Past Meetings (virtual)

• September 28, 2022 - Annual Parents’s Rights Meeting

• December 7, 2022 - this meeting is postponed to March 1, 2023.

• March 1, 2023 - How to Read an IEP

• June 7, 2023 - End of Year, Q&A

2021-2022 Past Meetings (virtual)

• September 29, 2021 - Annual Parents’s Rights Meeting

• December 8, 2021 - How to Read an IEP

• March 2, 2022 - Reading Support

• May 25, 2022 - End of Year, Q&A

2020-2021 - No meetings were held due to Covid-19.

Due to Covid-10 statewide shutdown starting in March 2020, SEPAC meetings were on hold through the end of spring 2020 and for the 2020-2021 school year.

2019-2020 Past Meetings

Note: starting in March 2020, statewide school closures due to Covid-19 made it challenging to hold SEPAC meetings so they were on hold.

December 11, 2019 at 5:00 PM

October 9, 2019 at 5:00 PM - Annual Rights

September 11, 2019 at 4:30 PM

SEPAC Blog - This blog is archived an NO LONGER maintained so do NOT use the contact form. This is listed solely for archival purposes and has meeting info through February 2020.

2018-2019 Past Meetings

Staring in January 2019, meetings were every month on the 2nd Wednesday of the month from 5:00-6:00 pm.

2017-2018 Past Meetings

See hardcopies.

2016-2017 Past Meetings

Note: a staff person attends these meetings.

• May 17, 2017 at 5:30PM - CANCELLED

Parent Support Group Meetings:

Note: these are for parents only.

• March 1, 2017 at 5:45PM

• April 5, 2017 at 5:45PM

• May 3, 2017 at 5:45PM

• June 7, 2017 at 5:45PM

2016-2017 Past Meetings

• April 12, 2017 at 5:30PM

• March 15, 2017 at 5:30PM

• February 15, 2017 at 5:30PM

• January 25, 2017 at 5:30 PM

• January 18, 2017 at 5:30PM - cancelled

• December 14, 2016 at 5:30PM

• November 30, 2016 at 5:30PM: Workshop on Basic Rights in Special Education and the Referral Process

• Oct. 19, 2016 at 5:30 PM

• Oct. 5, 2016 at 9:00 AM

• Sept 21, 2016 at 9:00 AM

• Sept. 7, 2016 at 9:00 AM

• July 27, 2016 at 9:00 AM

• July 13, 2016 at 5:30 PM

2016-2017 Past Schedule of Parent Support Group Meetings:

• February 1, 2017 at 5:45PM

• January 4, 2017 at 5:45PM

• December 7, 2016 at 5:45PM

2015-2016 Past Meetings

Note: The October 2015 to March 2016 meetings started at 8:45 AM.

Starting in April 2016, meetings will be at 9:00 AM on the second Wednesday each month.

• June 8, 2016

• May 4, 2016 - The PVCICS SEPAC will meet to hold officer elections and vote to adopt its bylaws.

• April 13, 2016

• March 9, 2016

• February 10, 2016

• January 13, 2016

• December 9, 2015

• November 4, 2015 - Annual Parents Rights

• October 14, 2015 - first meeting of school year and meeting of special education staff