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IEP Collaboration That Works: Preparing, Presenting, Following Up

How families and school teams can turn an annual meeting into a working agreement, with scripts and a one-page data summary.

Alicia Moreno, M.Ed. Β· Special Education CoordinatorApril 27, 2026 10 min read
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An IEP meeting has a fixed agenda and a limited clock. Families who walk in with a one-page summary of what they see at home change the conversation from opinion to evidence β€” and school teams almost always welcome it.

Two weeks before

  • Export two to four weeks of communication or behaviour data and highlight three trends.
  • Write your top three priorities in one sentence each; rank them.
  • Ask for draft goals in advance, in writing.

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