Leveraging Progress Monitoring for Student Success For students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs), progress monitoring has meaningfully changed in recent years – from a required, compliance-driven exercise to one that truly provides data on a child’s progress, thus informing his or her instruction. At the same time, educators continue to struggle with it. When conducted effectively, progress monitoring can be used as a critical tool to drive instruction. But when conducted poorly, or nonexistent, a lack of progress monitoring can hinder a student’s academic and functional growth and have avoidable, distracting, and costly legal ramifications. [More]
A Guide for Special Education Directors: Planning for Ambitious, Data-Driven, and Measurable IEPs In most school districts, the Special Education Director (or Director of Pupil Personnel Services) has compliance oversight of the district’s Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). [More]
See you at the NYCASE 17th Annual Summer Institute! New York Council of Administrators of Special Education (NYCASE) will host its annual Summer Institute from July 22-July 24, 2019 at the Albany Capital Center, and this year, the theme is Supportive Practice: New Horizons for All. [More]
Essential Elements of IEP Goals The Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2004 (IDEA) establishes annual goals as an integral part of a child’s Individualized Education Program (IEP). Since IDEA was reauthorized in 2004, there has been a push from the U.S. Department of... [More]
Shifting Priorities: IEP Goal Writing While mandated compliance indicators remain important, under the Results-Driven Accountability (RDA) framework, the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) has sharpened its focus... [More]