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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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...
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...
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...
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...