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Collaborative IEP Practices: Ensuring Legal Compliance for Student Success

This guide highlights key areas of legal compliance in the IEP process, focusing on common areas of non-compliance and best practices. Learn how to implement IEPs effectively, adhere to timelines, ensure parent participation, notify procedural safeguards, and more. Discover practical steps to make the IEP process collaborative, student-centered, and efficient, promoting shared decision-making and student success. Find out how to involve required team members, draft IEPs in advance, and maintain a focus on participation, prevention, resolution of conflicts, organization, and consensus.

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Collaborative IEP Practices: Ensuring Legal Compliance for Student Success

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  1. “JUST THE FACTS, MA’AM” Best Practices and Legal Compliance in the IEP Process

  2. Compliance CDE identified the following as the 10 items that are most often found to be out of compliance! Most are related to the IEP process • Implementation of the IEP • Time lines • Required Team Members • Ensure Parent Participation in IEP meeting • Required Written Notice of Meetings • Required IEP Meetings ( annual/tri, addend, Manifest) • Notification of Procedural Safeguards • Access to and Knowledge of the Content of the IEP (Teachers and Service Providers) • Qualified and Adequately Prepared Staff • 10. Required Content of the IEP

  3. What We Can Do To Make It All Work

  4. Collaborative IEP’s and Compliance • Student Centered • Adhere to Time lines (Site Admin. Monitor Dates Using Easyiep) Meeting Scheduled 20/30 days out Parent contact made by case carrier and written meeting invitation mailed 2nd Notice at 10/15 days 3rd notice at 5 days followed up by phone call (document) • Parent,Teacher,Admin. Participation case carrier draft IEP – (5/10 days ahead) provide draft copies to site admin, gen.ed/sped teachers send draft for input/review • Required Team Members ( attend the entire IEP) Parent Administrator or Designee Gen. Ed Teacher Special Ed Teacher (knowledgeable)

  5. It’s about the PROCESS • P = participation & prevention • R = resolution of conflicts • O = organization • C = collaboration & consensus • E = efficiency • S = shared decision-making • S = student focus & success!

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