12/10/2023 Topic: IEPs for PA Mark Hauck	Hello colleagues: I am the Instructor at Tower Health/Phoenixville Hospital and our program welcomes interns from up to 8 different local school districts. Since I started here there's been a fair amount of discrespancy among these districts over who assumes responsibility for generating the updated IEP. Just one district has shared access with IEPWriter. Some districts task me with writing it, others do not (the transition coordinators write it). Since I don't have comprehensive access to IEPWriter, I've been forced to use a PDF editor that creates a formatting disaster, making the document difficult to read. The previous instructor was an IU employee who had IEPWriter access. I have met with my supervisors at Kencrest and this PDF editor is the best that can be provided. If anyone can please suggest a solution/alternative, I'd be most most grateful. Thanks, Mark edited by mark.hauck@kencrest.org on 12/10/2023 edited by mark.hauck@kencrest.org on 12/10/2023
12/13/2023 Topic: IEPs for PA Mark Hauck	UPDATE: via PaTTAN, I have found a .docx template of an IEP. I am going to try that. Hopefully it will result in a much cleaner document compared to using a PDF editor.
5/13/2024 Topic: Overcoming intern technology limitations Mark Hauck	Hello all: We have found it increasingly difficult to plan web-based lesson enhancements due to the fact that our interns are using their school district issued laptops. Each SD has a different security protocol, which can make it impossible for some interns to access websites like Google Drive, which is the only way I know of to share and edit documents together in real time. I'm trying to convince our program sponsor (KenCrest) to supply used laptops or tablets to circumvent this issue. I've actually resorted to supplying interns with my own personal laptops (that I don't ordinarily use). Does any other PS site encounter this same problem and what do they do about it? Thanks in advance.

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