Elementary and Secondary Education
January 14, 2015
Welcome to the ImproveIEP Information Center!
It's time! Massachusetts is revising the Individualized Education Program (IEP) Form. Your hands-on IEP experience is vital to the IEP Form Improvement Project. Your perspectives and suggested solutions to common issues will drive these revisions.
- Have you read an IEP
- Have you attended an IEP meeting?
- Have you taught any students with IEPs?
A broad and deep engagement strategy is a priority in order to achieve an updated, meaningful and user-friendly form that works well for all educators, families and students.
Activities to gather your input will occur throughout the project. These data will be collected to guide the planning, development, and implementation of an improved IEP Form.
The more you are involved in those opportunities the more useful you will find the end product. For that reason we invite you to visit this page regularly for updates and get involved!
Our ultimate goal is to prepare all students to succeed in the world that awaits them after high school.
Effectively Meet User Needs
Embedded in our goal are these expectations:
- Respond to IEP user's articulated needs and priorities;
- Craft an easy to use, step-wise format;
- Update content;
- Include guiding questions;
- Explicitly connect sections for easy planning;
- Provide a structure for coherent service delivery planning.
- Investigate the possibility of an optional online web-based application, protected by SIMS-level security, and aligned with local SIS and state SIF that benefits.
- Increase parent/professional partnerships;
- Simplify the IEP development process;
- Improve family engagement;
- Reduce unnecessary conflict.
- Improve strategic data systems;
- augment resources for root cause analysis and school effectiveness;
- automate state and federal data collection activities.
- Reduce district data collection activities and related resources.
- Collect valid and reliable data.
- Achieve high expectations for both form and function.
- Performance in the Common Core State Standards with results driven accountability (RDA);
- Consistent compliance requirements;
- Student-level progress monitoring.
- Naturally support users and increase instructional time;
- Minimize use of the additional information section to retro-fit for current initiatives and requirements;
- Clearly articulate age and disability related needs and service responsibilities;
- Plainly reflect the planning and decision making process throughout the IEP;
- Integrate non-academic needs and the life of the school;
- Meaningfully engage all educators, families, and students;
- Improve outcomes for students with disabilities.
Embedded in our goal are these expectations:
- That teachers will know how to respond to the needs of students with disabilities and will use that knowledge to proactively work with students across the coursework and life of the school.
- That students with disabilities will gain the knowledge and skills to prepare themselves effectively for postsecondary opportunities, career training options, economically viable careers, and healthy, productive lives.
- That families of students with disabilities will understand the key aspects of how the student learns and what families can expect will be provided to their sons and daughters during the course of the school year.
Special Education Planning and Policy Development Office
Attn: IEP Revision
Mass. Department of Elementary and Secondary Education,
75 Pleasant Street,
Malden, MA 02148.
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