Happy new year from the EDPlan team! To help you make the most of EDPlanTM and its suite of modules, PCG will be hosting a series of webinars this winter (“What’s Up Webinars”) to explore the following EDPlan modules, highlighting new features and offering insights into how these modules can provide even greater value to you, our valued partners. We hope you’ll take advantage of this opportunity to learn more about all that EDPlan has to offer by registering for one or more of our upcoming “What’s Up Webinars.” [More]
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]