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Center Product Icon Stories from the Classroom: Using a Telenovela to Explain the Special Education Process
This video shares how Arlington Public Schools used the platform of a Spanish language soap opera, or telenovela, to explain and demystify the special education process for Spanish speaking families.
Video
Center Product Icon Engaging Parents as Partners in the IEP Process
This webinar shares resources and tips to help schools to effectively engage parents as partners in the IEP process.
Webinar
Center Product Icon IEP Team Meeting Guide for Families

Parents, you are an expert in your child! Your thoughts, questions, and feedback are valuable in the IEP development. In this role, it is essential that you understand the IEP and its parts, why the IEP is important, and the valuable role you play in creating the IEP. This resource includes information to consider before, during, and after the IEP meeting. It includes information about the parts of the meeting, questions to consider asking during the meeting, and a place to take notes.

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Center Product Icon Parent and Student Forms: Preparing for the IEP Team Meeting
Student and parent voices are critical to developing an IEP that promotes progress and is individualized to help the student meet future goals. These forms were developed to help IEP teams work with parents and students to gather information and perspectives prior to the IEP meeting to ensure that the meeting can run efficiently and focused on the unique needs and goals of the student. The forms ask parents and students to share goals, strengths, needs, and what has and hasn't worked to support the student at school, at home, and in the community.
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Center Product Icon IEP Tip Sheet for Parents: The IEP Team
This tip sheet reviews the members of the IEP team and their roles. It highlights required members and additional members who may be beneficial in developing an IEP that best meets your child's needs. Some key questions to consider and additional resources are included.
Fact Sheet
Center Product Icon IEP Tip Sheet for Parents: An Overview of the IEP
Parents are critical members of the IEP team. This tip sheet is intended to help parents understand the key elements of the individualized education program (IEP) and the IEP development process.
Fact Sheet
Center Product Icon Stories from the Classroom: Hearing Parents’ Priorities

In this Stories from the Classroom video, Dr. David Bateman shares a story of an IEP meeting that serves as a reminder that the IEP is meant to address all of the student’s individual needs and how important family input and perspective is to the development and implementation of an IEP that meets their child's needs.

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Center Product Icon Using Parent and Youth Feedback to Inform High-Quality Educational Programming for Students with Disabilities

What can we learn from the experiences of families and youth to guide our development and implementation of high-quality educational programming for students with disabilities? In this webinar, Stacy Hirt and Joey Hunziker share findings from a series of focus groups with families and caregivers who had a child with an IEP during their school years and young adults who were supported with an IEP while in school. Educational planning successes, challenges, and recommendations from the lens of focus group participants will be highlighted.

Webinar
Center Product Icon Ten Ways Schools Can Foster Belonging Among Students With and Without Disabilities
Students learn best and are the most successful when they are welcomed and feel a sense of belonging at school. At the same time, many educators struggle to meaningfully include students with disabilities in the school community. In this webinar, Dr. Erik Carter, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Special Education at Vanderbilt University, shares a powerful framework for reflecting upon and fostering belonging within our schools and classrooms.
Webinar
Center Product Icon The IEP Team: Who's Who and Other Considerations

This course provides a review of the team members responsible for collaboratively developing the students individualized education program (IEP) as outlined in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and explains their roles on the IEP Team. This module also reviews some additional considerations for team membership and engagement in the IEP development process.

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