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Education Advocacy-Essential Community Resource communication disability education advocacy education advocates iep development iep process parent participation in iep Jun 18, 2023

EDUCATION ADVOCACY IS FOR EVERYONE

IT IS AN ESSENTIAL COMMUNITY RESOURCE

 

When I think of education advocacy I see Batman’s utility belt, but instead of gadgets, it endows parents with superpowers to fight for their children’s education rights. You could think of it as a mix of Professor X’s tel...

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Education Advocate Runs For School Board behavior education advocacy educational equity equity inclusion research based instruction special education advocate teacher training Jun 01, 2023

Should An Education Advocate Run For The School Board?

There have been several cases where a person with special education advocacy experience has run for the school board. There was, of course, hue and cry on both sides of the issue any time it presented itself.

Some people were afraid that the a...

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MANAGING IEP DISAGREEMENTS PART II communication education advocacy fape goals iep development parent concerns May 25, 2023

PLAYING NICE IN THE SANDBOX

  

MANAGING DISAGREEMENTS

Managing disagreements and ineffective interactions is a core skill of professional special education advocacy. We must choose whether we want conflict or peace. Learning peace comes from getting out of the inner conflict of attack and grieva...

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FREE Keys to Effective Communication at IEP's May 09, 2023

EDUCATION ADVOCACY

AND CONFLICT

 

Below you will find a link to the LEWIS IEP COMMUNICATION LIST. This is free. It is part of the Board-Certified Special Education Advocate Program TM offered by the National Special Education Advocacy Institute - NSEAI.  It reviews the steps in effective profess...

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20 Highly Effective Questions Experts Ask - Make a Difference in Your IEP advocate iep iep development iep goals iep meeting iep preparation Apr 29, 2023

20 Highly Effective Questions Experts Ask - Make a Difference in Your IEP

Everyone knows that Individualized Education Plan (IEP) meetings determine the type of support and accommodations required for the student to achieve their educational goals. At these meetings, your child’s team of profession...

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WHAT IEP ISSUES CAN A PARENT LETTER OF ATTACHMENT ADDRESS? iep development iep goals needs assessment parent letter of attachment parent letter of concerns strategies Jan 21, 2023

WHAT IEP ISSUES CAN A PARENT LETTER OF ATTACHMENT ADDRESS? 

 

 

WHAT IS A PARENT LETTER OF ATTACHMENT?

The Parent Letter of Attachment  (PLA) is a document that most parents are pretty clueless about. They either have no idea what to do with it and so never do anything with it and there are some...

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We Are NOT There to Say NO!! Jan 07, 2023

WE HAVE 45 MINUTES FOR THE IEP ON THURDAY.

 

Comment from a BCEA student (JS) : LEA only allows 45” for an IEP.

Why are advocates there?

Why do you say "Its cool with me" sarcastically - when clearly what you're referring to is NOT ok??!!! As an advocate, no, covering a 43 page IEP in less tha...

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Educational Inequity educational equity iep development Jan 06, 2023

 EDUCATIONAL INEQUITY IS THE MOST PRESSING

SOCIAL PROBLEM FACING OUR COUNTRY AND

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE OF OUR DAY

To solve this problem one must be an expert in IEP development. The goal is to support students learning academically, emotionally, behaviorally, socially, and adaptive skills so t...

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Eye of the Advocate advocacy education advocacy Dec 31, 2022

How to Appreciate the Eye of the Advocate

As this first day of a New Year begins, I would like to focus on what happens when someone finally develops the eye of an advocate.  What does that really mean and does that process of developing the Eye of an advocate have any impact on your life and if it...

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UNPROFESSIONAL CODE WORDS iep communication iep development process Dec 17, 2022

UNPROFESSIONAL CODE WORDS

It really does not matter what industry, or profession you are working with as a consumer,  you will find that they all have their own vocabulary of code words. True professionals, know better than to ever say certain code words such as:

“TRUST ME”

The need to convince ...

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ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS & EDUCATION ADVOCACY SKILLS accommodations advocacy child focused cross training documentation education advocacy evaluations functional outcomes iep development parent concerns parent participation in iep progress monitoring Dec 16, 2022

EDUCATION ADVOCACY SKILLS

"ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTION IS OFTEN MORE IMPORTANT THAN HAVING AN ANSWER. A RIGHT QUESTION CAN LEAD TO THE RIGHT ANSWER."

Marie Lewis PhD, BCEA

The world of Special Education leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to transparency and direction.  Some of that is simply...

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THE ROLE OF THE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION ADVOCATE advocacy child focused collaboration communication compliance cross training education advocacy fape functional outcomes iep development parent participation Nov 19, 2022

Please Tell Me That You Walk on Water

This could be the entreaty of those parents who have the distinct feeling that, at the IEP table, their comments are magically heard by team members only in a foreign language. Another common perception is that all comments by parents will be met with rolling e...

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