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This easy-to-read flipbook provides practical guidance for IEP and Section 504 team meetings, including ensuring parent participation and building trust, while maintaining a legal, efficient, and effective process. This handy reference guide, designed to be used again and again to practice and refine team meetings, includes: - An overview of the purposes and procedures of IEP and 504 meetings - A clear delineation of what constitutes a team's job--and what to avoid - Best practices, including language to use and tips to keep meetings on track - Helpful do's and don'ts to facilitate productive and legal meetings that ensure students receive the services they need

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This little flip books are loaded with information. I use them for training, eliciting discussion, guiding practice, and inspiring simplicity in the very complex world of special education. Miriam has a passion for all that is right (and wrong) with the practice of special education as it relates to the law. In these books, her insight, knowledge, and practical information are reflected through fact and explanation. The examples provided are clear and easily relatable. The question/answer format provides a logical roadmap for getting to the why, what, and how of IEPs and 504s. --Anne Delfosse (04/07/2020) End the confusion after you devour this book. Miriam shares her clear understanding in bite-sized nuggets. Once you are familiar with the Goldilocks conundrum you can avoid the pitfalls. Miriam hits all the areas of confusion and misunderstanding and guides us to clarity using invaluable lists, tips, hints and memorable analogies. You'll be sharing this information with your teams. --Mary Bevernick (03/31/2020) Miriam Freedman's IEP and Section 504 Team Meetings...and the Law is a valuable resource for school administrators, special education teachers, general education teachers, and parents. She explains laws and regulations in an easy-to-read format with visuals and legal cases to drive home the important issues. Many of the topics covered are ones that IEP Team members debate based on opinions (ie. over-accommodating is not a good thing), not realizing that there is case law to guide their decision-making. -- (03/09/2020)

Miriam Freedman's IEP and Section 504 Team Meetings...and the Law is a valuable resource for school administrators, special education teachers, general education teachers, and parents. She explains laws and regulations in an easy-to-read format with visuals and legal cases to drive home the important issues. Many of the topics covered are ones that IEP Team members debate based on opinions (ie. over-accommodating is not a good thing), not realizing that there is case law to guide their decision-making. -- (03/09/2020) End the confusion after you devour this book. Miriam shares her clear understanding in bite-sized nuggets. Once you are familiar with the Goldilocks conundrum you can avoid the pitfalls. Miriam hits all the areas of confusion and misunderstanding and guides us to clarity using invaluable lists, tips, hints and memorable analogies. You'll be sharing this information with your teams. --Mary Bevernick (03/31/2020) This little flip books are loaded with information. I use them for training, eliciting discussion, guiding practice, and inspiring simplicity in the very complex world of special education. Miriam has a passion for all that is right (and wrong) with the practice of special education as it relates to the law. In these books, her insight, knowledge, and practical information are reflected through fact and explanation. The examples provided are clear and easily relatable. The question/answer format provides a logical roadmap for getting to the why, what, and how of IEPs and 504s. --Anne Delfosse (04/07/2020)

Miriam Freedman's IEP and Section 504 Team Meetings...and the Law is a valuable resource for school administrators, special education teachers, general education teachers, and parents. She explains laws and regulations in an easy-to-read format with visuals and legal cases to drive home the important issues. Many of the topics covered are ones that IEP Team members debate based on opinions (ie. over-accommodating is not a good thing), not realizing that there is case law to guide their decision-making. -- (03/09/2020)

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"Passionate to help our public schools be excellent for ALL students, attorney Miriam Kurtzig Freedman works with people who want better schools and helps practitioners move from confusion to confidence when dealing with legal requirements. Why? So they can get back to the all-important mission of education! Miriam has authored eight books and had contributed articles to The Wall Street Journal, Education Week, Education Next, the Journal of Law and Education, the University of Chicago Law Review on line, among other publications. She also contributes to Medium.com. A school attorney, Miriam is of counsel to the Boston law firm of Stoneman, Chandler & Miller LLP. She provides clients and national audiences with lively and practical keynotes, training, and consultation--all in ""plain English!"" A former teacher, Miriam ""gets"" it--what school folks need to know and do. Miriam co-founded the annual Special Education Day (December 2) to both celebrate the success of special education and to spur reform. info@specialeducationday.com. Among its reforms is SpedEx, the successful, voluntary, trust-building, child-centered dispute resolution model. A summary of her writing, speaking, and consulting is available at www.schoollawpro.com. She received her law degree from New York University, masters from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and bachelor of arts from Barnard College (Columbia University). When not engaged in public education activities, Miriam loves to hang out at the cafe and spend time with her family, especially her granddaughter!"

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