IEP - Enhancing Results
Session Description
IEPs - Is it yet another mandatory meeting? Or can we make it an opportunity to collaborate to further impact the outcome for the student?
At every IEP meeting, key individuals with vast experience bring to the table their specific insights of the student.
In this interactive session, you gain a tool for identifying factors that can contribute to the IEP team’s efforts to develop a plan that will enhance student outcomes.
By bringing together each team member’s insights, you will build a holistic understanding of the various factors influencing behavior and educational performance, enhancing your ability to make a difference.
You'll Learn
- How to aggregate the IEP team members' individual knowledge to create a holistic understanding of the student
- The interactive dynamics of stimuli in environments that influence the student’s learning outcomes.
- A tool and methodology the IEP team can use to combine respective insights to enhance the overall results for the student.
Intended Audience
- Parents or guardians
- Educators
- Social workers
- Advocates
- Anyone supporting children and their families
Level
1 - no previous training required
Time
Workshop - 90-120min
Deep-Dive - 2-4 hours
What to Expect
Throughout the session, Thomas C. Rector encourages audience participation and shares insights, examples, and experiences gained over 20 years of training parents, advocates, and professionals.
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In workshops and deep dives, the second half of the session is spent in a hands-on, interactive, role-playing activity that gets participants up and out of their seats and working together to implement the methodology.
What Past Participants Say
“So, so, so good, smart, relevant, new insightful, thank you.”
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National Foster Parent Association Annual Conference, 2018
"I love Tom's material. It explains the "why" what we are doing works, how learning works."
- Rachel M.
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Raising a Child to Thrive, 1:1 Session, 2020
Presenter: Thomas C. Rector
As a father of five, adoptive parent, a foster care mentor and trainer, CASA, and board member for child advocacy organizations, Thomas C. Rector brings a unique perspective to child advocacy and parenting.
He is a CEO, national speaker and presenter on BioSocial Cognition theory, and founder of Accrescent Institute, as well as the former Executive Director for CASA of Del Norte and Vice President of the NFPA Board of Directors.