Keeping Students in Focus

I have sat in thousands of IEP meetings in my career as a building administrator. Most times, the objective has been about compliance….with dates, with minutes for services, with delivery of SDI, with testing accommodations, and, of course, making sure that all the signatures are secured. Shouldn’t we start at the beginning…. with the true spirit of the document…the future planning statement…or what I believe tobe the heart and soul of the document. The future planning st

Your child has reached the age where they are in school for more time than they are with you, at home. Perhaps school for your child is a place where they are overwhelmed and feeling less than the peers that sit next to them in the classroom. The natural response is “fight or flight”---withdraw and avoid or become non-compliant and disrespectful to the teacher in the classroom. This reaction is to protect them from feeling the negative emotions connected to school. What can w