✏️ ALE Initiating a Written Student Learning Plan (Connect)

Here, you will learn how to initiate a Student Learning Plan. All students taking an ALE course must have a Student Learning Plan as outlined in WAC 392-550-025 (1). Defaults for Initiating SLPs can be set in Data Administrator >> Configuration >>SLP Default Values. Students can only have one active wSLP in any given school year. 

Helpful Resource: ALE Mass Initiate Student Learning Plan (Connect)

Role: Certificate Teacher

1. Start under Student Learning Plans in the left navigation menu and choose Initiate Student Learning Plan. 

2. First is the Essentials section. ALE courses must be supervised, monitored, assessed, evaluated, and documented by a certificated teacher employed by the school district or under contract as permitted by applicable rules. RCW 28A.232.010 (1)(a)(ii),  WAC 392-440-020(3). Certificated teacher means an employee of a school district or charter school, of a school district contractor pursuant to WAC 392-121-188, or a charter school contractor pursuant to  WAC 392-121-1885, who is assigned and endorsed according to the provisions of chapter WAC 181-82.

   The Certificated Teacher field will auto-populate with your name. If you are not the teacher, click the field and select that teacher. Click the magnifying glass icon in the Student field, then select the checkbox next to the student. Note that before selecting a student, you can see if they already have a Student Learning Plan in the Has SLP column. If you accidentally select a student who already has a Student Learning Plan, the system will return an error when you save all your selections.  Once you select a student, the Grade Level field will auto-populate unless the student was created manually. The Supplemental Certificated Teachers field will auto-populate based on the Initiate SLP Default settings in Data Administrator, but you can make changes to the field as needed. The How weekly contact requirements will be fulfilled field will auto-populate based on your program settings.

3. Next is the Time Commitment section. Total weekly time is the estimated average number of hours per school week that the student will engage in learning activities to meet the requirements of the written student learning plan. WAC 392-550-020 (14). (Data Administrator >> Initiate wSLP Default Values).

   The School Year field will auto-populate based on your program settings. The Average Weekly Hours field allows you to adjust the hours a student spends on learning activities for non-full-time students. The current number of hours required to claim a student as full-time is 27.75. The Start Date and End Date fields will default to your school year’s start and end date. However, after the school year starts, the Start Date field will display today's date and can be modified if necessary.

4. In the Parent Enrollment Settings section, use these fields to control when and how a parent can enroll their child in classes. Class Registration settings can be applied system-wide via Registrar >> Class Registration >> Set Enrollment Dates. If any system-wide settings were applied, you can edit them at the individual student level here. 

   Fill in the Parent Class Enrollment Limit, Learning Credit Limit, and Max Count of Parent Interested Classes fields numerically. Select the Earliest Parent Enrollment Date and the Latest Parent Enrollment Date.

5. In the Concurrent Enrollment section, use these fields to indicate if a student is also enrolled in Running Start, Skills Center, Partial Homeschool, or Private School and whether the student is a choice transfer, shared with another school within your district, or shared with a school outside of your district.

   Select Yes or No from the Student is enrolled in Running Start, Student is enrolled in Other School within District, Student is enrolled in Skills Center, Student is enrolled out of District, Student is enrolled in Private School, Student is a Choice Transfer, Student has Partial Home School Status dropdown menus.

6. Click Save.
7. This will save your Student Learning Plan, and you can continue entering data, such as adding courses or enrolling the student in classes, by clicking on these tabs.
8. If you need to return to this plan later, click under Student Learning Plans in the left navigation menu and choose All Student Learning Plans or My Student Learning Plans.non-full-time students

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