Students with Special Needs:
South Pasadena Middle School is committed to the education of all our children. We follow the Americans with Disabilities Act which authorize 504 plans and federal IDEA-Individual Education Plans (IEPs). We provide opportunities for our Gifted and Talented students (GATE) in the classroom and provide sheltered instruction to our students with Limited English Proficiency (LEP). In order to meet the needs of our students we provide differentation of instruction, assignments and assessments, including but not limited to, flexible grouping, assignments incorporating depth, complexity, and critical thinking. For those students who have accommodations in the classroom, please contact the classroom teacher, Mr. Miller ,with any concerns about your child's accommodations with a particular assignment. In order to increase student independence and maturity, extended time, per a student's 504 plan or IEP, is given only for academic assignments, not duties such as parent signatures or bringing PE clothes. If extended time or a shortened assignment is needed it must be arranged with the classroom teacher, Mr. Miller, prior to the due date for the assignment. Extended time cannot be granted past the end of the quarter.
I am pleased to be starting my sixth year at South Pasadena Middle School, for it was here as a substitute that my teaching career began. My positive experience with the students and faculty made me realize that teaching was the career for me. It was at this time that I enrolled at California State University Long Beach, earning my Single Subject Teaching Credential in English.