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  • IEPs: How Administrators Can Support the Development and Implementation of High-Quality IEPs
Challenge
Initial Thoughts
Perspectives & Resources

What is the school administrator’s role in overseeing the IEP process?

  • 1: The IEP Process
  • 2: Legal Implications for Special Education

How can school administrators support implementation of high-quality IEPs?

  • 3: Planning for the IEP Meeting
  • 4: During the Meeting
  • 5: Implementing the IEP
  • 6: Monitoring IEP Fidelity and Student Progress
  • 7: Promoting Student Success

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  • 8: References, Additional Resources, and Credits
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IEPs: How Administrators Can Support the Development and Implementation of High-Quality IEPs

Assessment

Take some time now to answer the following questions. Please note that the IRIS Center does not collect your Assessment responses. If this is a course assignment, you should turn them in to your professor using whatever method he or she requires. If you have trouble answering any of the questions, go back and review the Perspectives & Resources pages in this module.

  1. Regarding legal implications for the IEP process:
    1. Explain the difference between procedural requirements and substantive requirements for developing and implementing IEPs.
    2. How did the Endrew case clarify the substantive standard for IEPs?
  2. Describe the school administrator’s role throughout the IEP process.
  3. For each of the following stages of the IEP process, list at least three key actions administrators should ensure take place. Be sure to explain why you think each of these actions are important.
    1. Planning for the IEP meeting
    2. During the IEP meeting
    3. Implementing the IEP
  4. Describe at least two ways school administrators can work to ensure that parents are meaningfully involved at each stage of the IEP process:
    1. Planning for the IEP meeting
    2. During the IEP meeting
    3. Implementing the IEP
  5. Cruz

    • 5th-grade student with a learning disability in reading
    • Reads at a 3rd-grade level
    • Struggles with retaining information and comprehending text
    • Accommodations: graphic organizers, advance organizers, additional time on tests

    Ms. Pederson now understands the importance of collecting fidelity data on the teachers’ implementation of the services and supports outlined in the students’ IEPs and on students’ progress. It is midway through the first grading period and she is ready to review each student’s data. She begins with Cruz. The table below lists the services and supports identified in Cruz’s IEP, as well as the student progress and IEP implementation fidelity data. For each class, determine whether there is an issue; if so, identify what actions you would take to address it.

Cruz’s Data

Services and supports Cruz’s progress Teacher implementation fidelity Issue/Actions
Reading/ELA: 45 minutes of additional reading instruction per day in the resource room with accommodations Not making appropriate progress Teacher provides only 30 minutes of instruction

Issue:


Actions:

Mathematics: graphic organizers; advance organizers; additional time on tests Not making appropriate progress Teacher provides all accommodations as listed in the IEP

Issue:


Actions:

Science: graphic organizers; advance organizers; additional time on tests Making appropriate progress Teacher provides all accommodations as listed in the IEP

Issue: N/A


Actions:

Social studies: graphic organizers; advance organizers; additional time on tests Not making appropriate progress Teacher provided advance organizers and graphic organizers for the first few weeks but not since; teacher provides extended time on all tests

Issue:


Actions:

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