IEP guidance and resources, and advocacy-informed tools to support stronger IEPs and better outcomes for students. Created from years of real-world experience in IEP and 504 meetings.

Apparently fighting demons isn’t enough. Now we have to do it with great hair, coordinated outfits and a soundtrack. If someone in your house is currently obsessed with the whole ...

I like All About Me activities, but I think we tend to box them into the first three days of school. New class. New teacher. Here’s a worksheet. Tell me your favorite color and what you did this ...

Quite often, parents in our online chat group will ask what is the difference between an IEP and a 504. A child is struggling, supports aren’t working, and parents are told that a 504 plan might be ...

If you’re trying to figure out what IEP testing your child actually needs, you’re not alone. Parents ask me all the time: What IEP evaluations should I request? How do I know if the school’s IEP ...

If you think your child might need an IEP, the very first step is requesting evaluations. And here’s the part schools don’t always emphasize: you don’t ask for an IEP, you ask for evaluations. That ...

You’ve done the hard part…you put your request for IEP evaluations in writing. That single step starts the clock ticking. But now what? What happens between sending the request and sitting down at an ...

This question has been coming up more often again, especially in parent forums and advocacy groups. During the COVID-19 pandemic, when in-person schooling wasn’t possible, many schools turned to ...

Fall is one of the easiest times of year to put together a sensory bin. There are leaves, apples, pumpkins, acorns and all kinds of inexpensive fall-themed items practically everywhere. And by ...

IEP guidance and resources, and advocacy-informed tools to support stronger IEPs and better outcomes for students. Created from years of real-world experience in IEP and 504 meetings.

You know what gets forgotten in the pumpkin-spice chaos of November? Veterans Day. It’s stuck awkwardly between Halloween sugar crashes and pre-Thanksgiving shopping lists, and somehow always sneaks ...

Linda McMahon lied about schools and transgender students again. And at this point, I’m done pretending this is just sloppy wording. On August 24, McMahon said: “After the Biden administration allowed ...