Tag: IEP

Student-Led IEP Meetings

Student-led IEP meetings are the latest craze in special education. Unfortunately, it’s leaving a lot of special educators overwhelmed. We’re already overworked. How are we going to coach struggling students on how to run an IEP meeting on top of all our other responsibilities? Don’t get me wrong, in theory and in practice this sounds …

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Talking to General Educators About IEPs

Begin talking to a general educator about a student’s IEP, and you will usually get one of four different responses: 1. complete enthusiasm, 2. some enthusiasm and some confusion, 3. complete confusion, and 4. annoyance and denial. I’m hoping to help with responses 2-4 with this post. The Legal Aspect It’s federal law all students …

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