Connect the Dots: Build an Inclusive IEP is a free week-long training happening May 3 through May 9 inside a private Facebook group with parents who know exactly what that late-night IEP moment feels like.
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We’ll have three live sessions: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Here’s a glimpse of what we’ll be
covering.
Tuesday, May 5: Your Child’s North Star and Strengths
We’ll begin where many IEP meetings do not: with your child’s future. What do you want life to look like after high school? That North Star should guide the IEP, so each year’s plan moves your child one step closer to the life you
want them to have.
Then I’ll show you how to name your child’s strengths in language the IEP team can actually use, so those strengths shape the goals, supports, and services your child receives.
Wednesday, May 6: Present
Levels and Goals
These two sections either build the case for your child or quietly work against them. We’ll look at what belongs in Present Levels, what language to question, and how a reframed needs statement can build inclusion in from page one. Then we’ll turn to goals: how to make them meaningful, strength-based, and connected to real learning in your child’s school day.
Because by the time the discussion turns to placement, inclusion needs to have been built into the IEP. And that can mean the difference between your child learning alongside classmates or spending another year pulled from the classroom.
Thursday, May 7:
Accommodations, Services, and Placement
This is where many of the biggest disconnects live. Services that do not match the goals. Accommodations that stay generic because the Present Levels were generic. Placement decisions that can feel like they were made before you even entered the room.
By
Thursday, you’ll have a stronger understanding of how the IEP is supposed to work. But knowing the framework and using it with your own child’s document are not the same thing.
Because when it is your child, your emotions, and your child's meeting, it can be hard to know where to start or what to focus on first.
Thursday helps you pull the full picture together, so you can begin looking at your child’s IEP with more confidence and less overwhelm.
Three sessions. All free. All inside a private group for one week only.
The group opens Sunday, May 3. It closes Saturday, May 9.
You have already been doing the hard part. Showing up, staying at the table, learning everything you can, for a child who deserves so much more than a document that could have been written for anyone.
Come join us.
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