COMING SOONNavigating Special Education
A self-paced course for parents who want to navigate special education with clarity, not conflict. In five steps — each with tools you can bring straight to the table — you'll learn how the system works, how to ask the questions that open doors, and how to build the kind of partnership that actually helps your child.
A self-paced course for parents who want to navigate special education with clarity, not conflict.
What You Can Expect
Most parents don't walk into special education looking for a fight. They walk in looking for confidence — for someone to help them understand a system that can feel built to confuse them. This course is that help. Drawing on more than twenty years on both sides of the IEP table — as a special education director and as a parent — it lays out a clear, five-step framework for advocating with partnership instead of pressure. You'll learn how decisions actually get made, how to disagree without damaging the relationship, and how to keep every conversation centered on the one thing everyone in the room cares about: your child. Not legal advice. Not fear-based advocacy. Just a map — and the tools to walk it. You don't need a law degree to belong at that table.
Confidence instead of fear. Walk into evaluations and IEP meetings knowing what to expect, what to ask, and what your options are.Real stories and reflection prompts — not just theory
The words for hard moments. A set of curiosity-first questions and scripts you can reach for when something doesn't make sense — so you can disagree without putting the team on the defensive.
A way to name problems that works. Learn to separate good intentions from real impact, and to put a concern on the table calmly and clearly, in a way the team can actually act on.
The skill of keeping the focus on your child. Turn standoffs into problem-solving by coming back to the questions that matter: what's the need, what's the data, how will we know it's working.
Trust you build on purpose. Simple, low-effort ways to stay connected to your child's team between meetings — the small moments that make the big conversations possible.
Tools you'll use again and again. Worksheets, scripts, templates, and meeting-prep guides you can download and bring straight to the table.
Clarity about when to ask for more. Honest guidance on the limits of collaboration — how to tell a hard conversation from a real impasse, and what to do when your child needs outside support.
