News: Endrew's FAPE Decision
While You Can Write a Student’s Individualized Education Plan. . . It (Legally) Needs to be Acceptable, Actionable, and Appropriate
This Blog discusses the needs assessment and budgeting process that districts are currently engaged in, and that must include—based on students’ IEPs—the funding needed for next year’s special educati...
Read Full ArticleImproving Special Education Services for our Students: What the New Administration Must Do on this 20th Anniversary of IDEA 2004
This Blog uses the 20th anniversary of the signing of the last reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA 2004), and the coming second Trump administration to analyze, cr...
Read Full ArticleSchool Improvement, Strategic Planning, ESEA, and Multi-Tiered Services: An Anthology of Previous Blogs
Integrating Successful Research-to-Practice Strategies into the New School Year (Part I of II)Dear Colleagues,Introduction While some of you are starting to “trickle” back to your schools, districts...
Read Full ArticleThe Year in Review: What We’ve Learned about Effective Educational Practices to Increase Student, Staff, and School Success
Reflections on Policies, Practices, Pronouncements, and ProgressDear Colleagues,IntroductionAs I begin to write this message—at 35,000 feet. . . finally heading home after four weeks of uninterrupted...
Read Full ArticleStudents’ Mental Health Status and Wellness, and School Discipline and Disproportionality
Building Strong Schools to Strengthen Student Outcomes—A Summer Review of Previous Blogs (III of IV)Dear Colleagues,IntroductionAs our long, hot summer continues, I hope you are doing well.If you keep...
Read Full ArticleA Multi-Tiered School Discipline, Classroom Management, and Student Self-Management Model to Guide Your FAPE (and even Disproportionality) Decisions
The Endrew F. Decision Re-Defines a “Free Appropriate Public Education" (FAPE) for Students with Disabilities (Part III of III)Dear Colleagues,ForewordOn March 22nd, the Supreme Court made history by...
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