How can you help families avoid feeling overwhelmed and outnumbered during the IEP process? See the answer to that question—along with three more potential barriers and solutions to family participation in IEPs—in this free download adapted from Equitable and Inclusive IEPs for Students with Complex Support Needs. Read More
Use this list of helpful questions to ask families when creating IFSP and IEP plans. Read More
When students play an active role in their IEP development, they strengthen important self-determination skills, including choice-making, goal-setting, and self-advocacy. Discover 10 practical tips for supporting student IEP involvement, in this free download adapted from the book Equitable and Inclusive IEPs for Students with Complex Support Needs. Read More
Want practical guidance on developing meaningful IEPs? Explore the second edition of The IEP Checklist, your one-stop resource for creating IEPs that improve student outcomes and meet legal requirements. Read More
This webinar will highlight how observable behaviors, commonly graded in a report card,inform us about the essential skills for learning success. It describes strategies that the Student Support Team can use to help streamline case presentations by the general education teacher, and arrive more quickly at key educational decisions for each student. Read More
Task analysis is a flexible tool for understanding how to teach a task—and it can also be used to assess whether students are learning and to identify obstacles to progress. Learn the why and how of task analysis in this must-see coffee chat! Presented by Jennifer Mahdavi, author of the practical new guidebook A Teacher’s Guide to Progress Monitoring, this chat will show you how to use task analysis to plan effective lessons for your students and evaluate their progress. Read More
Read this excerpt from A Teacher’s Guide to Progress Monitoring: Track Goals to Refine Instruction for All Students to get a preview of Chapter One. Read More
Read this excerpt from Essential Skills for Struggling Learners: A Framework for Student Support Teams to get a preview of the first section: NEUROLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS. Read More
I’ve got a great little booklet of quick tips for you—it’s adapted from a new book that just came out, The Educator’s Handbook for Inclusive School Practices by Julie Causton and Chelsea Tracy-Bronson. Read More
One of our goals here at the Inclusion Lab is to demystify the IEP process and give you practical ideas for working as a team on a student’s education plan. Read More