Guide to Collaboration for IEP Teams

With so many complex, challenging, and emotionally charged decisions involved, participating in an IEP meeting can seem like navigating through a minefield. But now there’s a practical guide to managing these meetings with a high level of awareness, safety, and confidence.
This skills-based book will help administrators, teachers, parents, and others work as a unified team to design, review, and modify IEPs for children with special education needs. This resource fully addresses:

• Effective meeting management. Promote the collaboration that leads to consensus and conduct successful meetings.
• Principled negotiation. Apply a proven approach to building consensus while minimizing conflict.
• The emotional side. Explore how to communicate with respect and understanding.
• Conflict prevention. Discover 25 practical alternatives for resolving conflict before it escalates into debilitating tensions or legal action.

Written in a user-friendly and conversational style, this much-needed book is supplemented with checklists, outlines, diagrams, and specific examples to make the complex simple. Incorporating the experience and suggestions of hundreds of special education professionals, this book will be of invaluable help to all IEP team members.