How has the first quarter gone?
Advice of the month for November:
By this time in the school year, you have had several months of seeing how the school team is supporting your child’s education. If you have concerns, or just questions, best practice is to take action now. Send an email to the teacher. Even if you have regular conversations, capture what was said in an email. Paper trails end confusion and build a record of what’s working. And what’s not.
Not sure where to start?
How to Read an IEP
When a parent said, “Honestly, I don’t really know how to read an IEP,” I understood all too well. It took me years to realized that legal document paints a picture with words of how the school sees my son. I know now what to do to get an accurate picture. And that’s made it easier to read an IEP that seems to spend a lot of pages explaining what your child can’t do. When you know the steps of how to read an IEP, advocacy becomes easier.
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What people are saying.
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“Our case manager was not seeing the problems we were seeing.”
Working with Cherylynne, before, during, and after the IEP team meeting, I was able to get the principal to call for data collection and get the case manager and other teachers to come up with ideas to move things forward and support my student, to reduce the stresses that were triggering my middle schooler.
— R., parent of a NE Seattle student
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"The school gave a day's notice for a placement change"
I responded by calling for an IEP team meeting. The last-minute substitution of an administrator who knew nothing about our student nearly sent me over the edge. It was a relief to know Cherylynne was taking notes to capture the whole thing. Those notes helped with our due process case.
- Sara E., parent of a Seattle high schooler