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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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GIFTED IEP accommodations advocacy gifted iep development Jan 18, 2021

GIFTED IEP DEVELOPMENT FOR

Professional Education Advocates

Learn effective and professional IEP development approaches.

Discover other's errors in approach and transform a student's life!

Improve YOUR Professional Education Advocacy Skills Now!

 

A gifted student’s identified...

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SO HOW DO I WRITE A GOAL? iep development parent training progress monitoring Dec 14, 2020

DEFINING MEASURABLE GOAL COMPONENTS

If you have a student with an IEP you have read lots of goals, but do you have any idea about how appropriate a given goal is? Will this goal lead to any functional outcomes or is this just one more exercise in frustration? So how can I tell that the goal is a...

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SMARTER GOALS - EVALUATE & ADJUST iep development iep goals Dec 07, 2020

SMARTER GOALS - E

 

EVALUATION OF THE DATA MUST BE DEFINED AND REVIEWED BY THE TEAM WITH READJUSTMENTS TO THE IEP BASED ON THAT DATA. IF THE DATA IS NOT RELEVANT OR SPECIFIC ENOUGH THE IEP OUTCOMES WILL SUFFER AND CHANGES ARE “BEST GUESSES” VS DATA-DRIVEN.

 When determining...

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SMARTER GOALS - RELEVANT iep development iep goals Nov 30, 2020

SMARTER GOALS – R

 

GOALS MUST BE RELEVANT TO CURRICULUMS: General/Core, Modified, Expanded, & Functional

 

  • General Education - Core Curriculum - Subject centered
    • Use of State Standards or Common Core Standards2
  • Modified Core Curriculum - Subject centered
    • Based on...
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SMARTER GOALS - MEASURABLE iep development iep goals present levels of performance progress monitoring Nov 23, 2020

SMARTER GOALS – M

 

MEASURABLE AND MEANINGFUL DATA COLLECTION MUST BE ESTABLISHED

Identification of needs requires defined meaningful data collection that determines next steps in evaluations, research based programing, & other areas of need. The IEP is designed in order to allow...

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