Your child came home quiet again.
Not upset. Not crying. Just... quiet. The kind of quiet that tells you something happened at school and they don't want to talk about
it.
You ask. They shrug. And later, when you're checking your email, it finally hits you, your child is always the one being helped. Never the one helping. Always the one with the accommodation. Never the one someone turns to.
That particular kind of lonely has a way of becoming a belief. Once a kid decides they don't have anything to give, the IEP just keeps proving them right.
I hear this from parents all the time. Different kids, different schools, same quiet when they come home.
Here's what I've seen happen in classrooms when support only flows one direction: your child starts to believe that's the whole story about
who they are. They stop raising their hand. They start pulling back. Some stop wanting to go at all.
And a lot of IEPs are written to keep that one-way street running.
Tuesday, May 5th, I'm sharing the "Gifted & Giving" Framework inside my free training week, and I want you there.
It starts with one question: What does my child have to give?
Not what do they need. What do they
have.
When that question gets into the IEP room, something shifts. Your child stops being described only by their gaps.
The team starts seeing your child as one who could lead a morning meeting, who could be the one a
younger student looks up to, who has something real to contribute, not as a charity project, but because their ideas actually matter.
That's one piece of what we're building together in a private Facebook group, Connect the Dots: Build an Inclusive IEP, May 3–9.
This isn't a one-and-done webinar. It's
three live sessions across the week, with real conversation in between, because most IEPs don't break down in one place, and fixing them takes more than an hour.
By the end of the week, you'll understand more where your child's IEP is breaking down. You'll walk into your next meeting
with language that's hard to ignore. And you'll know the importance of building your case for inclusion from page one, so that your child stops having to prove they belong every time placement comes up.
It's free. It's live (replays available). AND your child deserves an IEP written to
include them.
Click to join us.
