January 2025

2025 January

Steve Ormbrek

Feb 03, 2025

Siras Systems will be copying the live SIRAS database and creating a new SIRAS Training version in the middle of January. If you are a SIRAS Trainer and have sample records you created in the Training version, download a copy of the IEP, or the various forms, and then reenter that in a new record once the new SIRAS Training version is deployed.

IMPORTANT Information for all users in SIRAS

The English Language Development page has been updated. It now includes space for IEP teams to note domain exemptions for the ELPAC when the team has determined that the student has a disability that precludes assessment of the student in one or more domains of the ELPAC such that there are no appropriate accommodations for the affected domain(s). These exemptions are not available to students taking the Alternate ELPAC for which no domains may be waived. You may find a CDE domain exemption decision-making tool HERE and in the SIRAS Tools Added Forms.
Get Ready for Spring ELA, Math, Science and EL testing:
- Siras can now send SBAC/ELPAC/504 accommodations data to TOMS with the SIRAS to TOMS API connection, contact [email protected] for more information on enabling this included feature.
- The statewide testing windows open soon. Review your SBAC/CAA/ELPAC data in SIRAS. Your district will likely export supports and accommodations for TOMS 1-2 weeks prior to the first day of testing in your district. If needed, schedule IEPs to make necessary changes prior to the data export(s). The TOMS Export Procedure Help Sheet contains guidance for case managers on data review, for SIRAS administrative staff on the data export for TOMS and for test coordinators on the upload of test supports and accommodations to TOMS.
- CAASPP and ELPAC supports for 2024-2025 have been updated by the CDE and are updated in SIRAS. New UDA menu updates have been deployed to SIRAS.
Calculate the % in General Education as you work on your IEPs: Utilize the calculator in SIRAS to assist you with keeping this up to date at each IEP as services, placement, and bell schedules change.

Use the Student Data Overview links on your home page to monitor your caseload. Review your students who have overdue or upcoming meetings (annuals due within the next 30 days and triennials due within the next 75 days).
Review your open meetings regularly. Finalize IEP meetings as quickly as possible, right after parent consent has been received. Finalized IEPs are sent to CDE as they occur throughout the year. The absence in reporting of a timely IEP meeting appears late.
Join SELPA for SIRAS Office Hours for Training of Trainers (ToTs)/Advanced Users/District Administrators and 504/SST Modules.

IMPORTANT Information for SIRAS Data Administrators in SIRAS

Correct DRDP errors, if any, posted in SIRAS as quickly as possible. Notify SELPA when all errors have been addressed and if needed, re-submit the DRDP Exception list to your director and SELPA. Access the updated DRDP Help Sheet on the Happy Fox SIRAS User Manual.
We are currently in the Fall 1 Amendment window. If you have made corrections to CALPADS data that were included in the LEA Approved Fall 1 submission, then the LEA will disapprove and re-approve the revised uncertified reports using the amendment window. That way, the most current information will be included for Fall 1 certification. Collaborate with SELPA If your LEA will be using this process during the amendment window. Review problem-solving resources on posted on the SIRAS4CALPADS Padlet and the Happy Fox SIRAS Support Center. In addition, reference the CDE Fall 1 2024 suggested due dates/checklist. The SELPA approval deadline for the Fall 1 amendment window is January 13, 2025, so that the SELPA can make sure all approvals are certified by the CALPADS deadline of January 24, 2025.
After certification, save your 16 dot reports for future use. Utilize the data tracking worksheet to summarize the data from CALPADS reports.
Join SELPA for monthly SIRAS Data Network meetings (Office hours with SELPA for SPED Data Specialists).
The schedule of SIRAS Support Zoominars/Office hours is posted on the SIRAS4CALPADS Padlet.