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A Four-Step Method for Developing Measurable, Meaningful, and Legally Sound IEP Goals

Online Event
Date
February 21, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
EST
Add to Calendar 2024-02-21 16:00:00 2024-02-21 17:00:00 A Four-Step Method for Developing Measurable, Meaningful, and Legally Sound IEP Goals https://exceptionalchildren.org/quarterly-webinar-meaningful-defensible-ieps/four-step-method-developing-measurable-meaningful-and-legally-sound-iep-goals United States Council for Exceptional Children PD@exceptionalchildren.org America/New_York public

Join us for the first quarterly IEP webinar of 2024! Want to write IEP goals that are laser-focused on student progress? During this webinar you will learn a four-step method for developing measurable, meaningful, and legally sound IEP goals that will help your students reach their full potential.

The purposes of this webinar are to:

  1. Teach a process for developing annual goals during an IEP meeting.
  2. Present a simple four-step method for ensuring that goals are actually measurable.
  3. Discuss the importance of graphically monitoring student progress toward the goals.

There is history behind this method - In 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court in Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District ruled that "to meet its substantive obligations under the IDEA, a school must offer an IEP reasonably calculated to enable a child to make progress appropriate in light of the child's circumstances" (Endrew, 2017, p. 999). It is impossible to show (a) that a student's IEP was written to indicate progress, (b) that an IEP team had a method to determine when changes should be made to a student's IEP, or (c) that a student's goals actually resulted in student progress, without writing measurable annual goals and then measuring them.

February 21, 2024 at 4pm ET
Free for members
$29 for non-members

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