Accommodations or Modifications

What is the difference between accommodations and modifications?

MIS has the resources to support students whose needs require accommodations but not those whose needs rise to the level of requiring a modification of the curriculum taught. For example, an accommodation is providing a chromebook for a 3rd grader with dysgraphia. A modification is teaching 4th grade math in a 2nd grade classroom or vice versa.

What happens if MIS is unable to support a learner’s needs?
In the event that the needs of a student surpass the support the school is capable of providing, a student may be out-counseled. MIS reserves the right to make this determination with or without the results of a formal psychoeducational or neuropsychological evaluation. Typically these are cases which include, but are not limited to severe diagnoses, multiple diagnoses, a need for constant one-on-one support, or persistent disruption to the learning of self or others.

Since MIS is a Spanish immersion school, students in second grade and beyond whose Spanish literacy skills are significantly below grade level, thereby requiring a modification of curriculum, will not be able to advance to the next grade or will be out-counseled.

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