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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...
Self Advocacy Makes Transitions Work
If the truth be told, when it comes to transition, parents are frequently in the dark as to all of the areas that transition covers and just how comprehensive the umbrella of transition can be for their student. When there are inexperienced teachers, or other...
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 - A
DEFINE ATTAINABLE ADVANCEMENT THAT IS TIME BOUND.
So many times goals are about balance in addition to all of the other issues that need to be considered. The goal needs to be attainable within the year, yet there needs to be enough challenge to it that progress...
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...
SMARTER GOALS CREATE IMPROVED IEP OUTCOMES
YOU NEED TO KNOW ENOUGH -
TO ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS -
TO GET THE RIGHT ANSWERS
What you don’t know will hurt you!
November of 1981, the issue of Management Review contained a paper, There's a S.M.A.R.T. Way To Write...
For parents, advocates, and teachers IEP meetings can be overwhelming and even create fear. But, when provided with the right supports these fears can be alleviated.
Elenore Rosevelt said, "Do one thing every day that scares you."
Well, parents of children with special needs go far beyond...