KENT INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT SPECIAL EDUCATION DIRECTORY 2013- 2014 KENT INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT REGIONS REGION I Cedar Springs Comstock Park Kenowa Hills Kent City Northview Rockford Sparta REGION II Caledonia East Grand Rapids Forest Hills Kentwood Lowell Thornapple Kellogg REGION III Byron Center Godfrey-Lee Godwin Heights Grandville Kelloggsville Wyoming REGION IV Grand Rapids KENT INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT SPECIAL EDUCATION DIRECTORY 2013-2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS Email List for LEA Special Education Administrators .................................................................................. 1 Kent ISD Special Education ........................................................................................................................... 3 Early On of Kent County ............................................................................................................................... 4 Byron Center Public Schools ......................................................................................................................... 5 Caledonia Community Schools ...................................................................................................................... 7 Cedar Springs Public Schools ...................................................................................................................... 10 Comstock Park Public Schools..................................................................................................................... 12 East Grand Rapids Public Schools ............................................................................................................... 14 Forest Hills Public Schools .......................................................................................................................... 16 Godfrey-Lee Public Schools ........................................................................................................................ 21 Godwin Heights Public Schools ................................................................................................................... 22 Grand Rapids Public Schools ....................................................................................................................... 24 Local Special Education Programs and Services ................................................................................. 24 Elementary PK-5 & PK-8 Local Special Education Programs ............................................................ 27 Middle School Local Special Education Programs .............................................................................. 31 Secondary Local Special Education Programs ..................................................................................... 32 Local Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) Programs .............................................................. 34 Center Programs (yellow pages) .......................................................................................................... 35 Grandville Public Schools ............................................................................................................................ 43 Kelloggsville Public Schools........................................................................................................................ 46 Kenowa Hills Public Schools ....................................................................................................................... 48 Kent City Community Schools..................................................................................................................... 59 Kentwood Public Schools ............................................................................................................................ 51 Lowell Area Schools .................................................................................................................................... 56 Northview Public Schools ............................................................................................................................ 58 Deaf/Hard of Hearing Program (yellow page) ..................................................................................... 60 Rockford Public Schools .............................................................................................................................. 61 Sparta Area Schools ..................................................................................................................................... 65 Thornapple Kellogg Schools ........................................................................................................................ 67 Wyoming Public Schools ............................................................................................................................. 69 Charter Schools of Kent County .................................................................................................................. 72 National Heritage Academies............................................................................................................... 77 Email Addresses for LEA Special Ed Administrators Arranged Alphabetically Name Email Address District Baas, David [email protected] Godwin Heights Boyer, Teresa [email protected] Sparta Brant, Dan [email protected] Kenowa Hills Brieve, Steve [email protected] Kelloggsville Brown, Denise [email protected] Grand Rapids Castro, Sarah [email protected] Forest Hills Copley, Joel [email protected] Grand Rapids Corbin, Barbara [email protected] Early On Cok, Mary [email protected] Grand Rapids Dykhouse, Jane [email protected] Godfrey Lee Ellis, Jim [email protected] Rockford Ghareeb, Mike [email protected] Kent ISD Heitzman, Dan [email protected] Northview Hofstee, Alissa [email protected] Caledonia Jaskiw, Nicholas [email protected] Grand Rapids Jennette, Stacey [email protected] Cedar Springs Kadau, Steve [email protected] Grand Rapids Knol, Harry [email protected] Wyoming Kolber, Mary Kay [email protected] Grand Rapids Long, Sara [email protected] Grand Rapids Long, Teresita [email protected] Grand Rapids Longwell, Paulette [email protected] Grand Rapids Lopucki, Trish [email protected] Northview Ludwig, Denise [email protected] Grand Rapids Maas, Jason [email protected] Wyoming Maichele, Deb [email protected] Grand Rapids McIntyre, Rebecca [email protected] Kent ISD Merritt, Lisa [email protected] Grand Rapids Miller, Jodi [email protected] Comstock Park Moore, Toni [email protected] Grand Rapids Myers, Kirsten [email protected] Rockford Ochoa, Laura [email protected] Grand Rapids O’Donnoghue, Sharon [email protected] Kentwood Polasek, James [email protected] Grand Rapids Price, Mari [email protected] Lowell Price, Mari [email protected] Thornapple Kellogg Rice, Kirsten [email protected] Kent ISD Savage, John [email protected] Kent ISD Segovia, Kindy [email protected] Kent ISD Smith, Bill [email protected] Kent ISD Tacoma, Erin [email protected] Byron Center Thomas, Pam [email protected] Kent City Thornburgh, Angie [email protected] Grandville Townsand, Meta [email protected] Grand Rapids VanAirsdale, Jann [email protected] Forest Hills VanderPloeg, Laurie [email protected] Kent ISD 1 VanTreese, Eric [email protected] Kent City Walsh, Gary [email protected] Grand Rapids Wisniewski, Fred [email protected] Forest Hills Wisniewski, Kathy [email protected] East Grand Rapids Zoellner, Ann [email protected] Grand Rapids 2 KENT INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT SPECIAL EDUCATION 2930 Knapp NE Grand Rapids MI 49525 www.kentisd.org 365-2297 -- (Fax) 447-2440 Laurie VanderPloeg Secretaries Director of Special Education & Early Childhood [email protected] Lori Matthews [email protected] [email protected] Joan Meyer Assistant Director of Special Education Compliance/Evaluation, Monitoring, Parent Support, Staff Development ..................................................... Michael Ghareeb 365-2303 [email protected] Supervisor of Special Education Data and Technical Assistance, Transition .......... Rebecca McIntyre 365-2280 [email protected] Assistive Technology Coordinator ............................................ Kindy Segovia 365-2244 [email protected] Secretary ............................................................................... Joan Meyer 365-2299 Finance Coordinator ............................ [email protected] John Savage 365-2257 Medicaid Medicaid Project Analyst ............. [email protected] Anne Ciucci 301-6191 Medicaid Technician ......... [email protected] Lynette Altman 365-2387 MiBLSi Equity Coach .......................................... [email protected] Beth Hill 365-2334 Learning Content Specialist ......... [email protected] Sonia Lewis 447-2472 Multi-Tier System of Support Coordinator ................................ Kirsten Rice 365-2293 [email protected] Physical Therapists 365-2299 Stephanie Anderson Ramona Murray Amy Bannink-Burmeister Beth O’Donnell Susan Bourque Maria Porth Karen Brown Todd Sanders Michelle Gallery Secretary ................................................................................ Joan Meyer TIENET Coordinator .............. [email protected] Susan Diedering 447-2472 Visually Impaired Services Media Specialist Nicole Dombrowski 365-2393