A Job-Alike Series for

IEP Team Chairs - new and seasoned

In your role as team chair, have you struggled to create a climate of trust where everyone feels safe and validated? Do you wonder how to navigate legal obligations, ethics, and relationships in what can be an emotionally charged environment? Are you looking for tools to communicate data and critical information in a way that engages stakeholders and moves the meeting forward? Are you searching for ways to properly prepare for and run the meeting? 

The team chair is integral in ensuring that the needs of all parties are met. This requires a skillful balancing of curriculum, instruction, student services and family engagement, along with strong relationships with colleagues, students and families. Unfortunately, this work can become conflict-driven, complex and isolating with few occasions for turning experience into wisdom. In a process where optimism, positivity, and belief in the process is critical, you must hone your ability to read the room, set the tone, model and deal with the physical and emotional manifestations of stress.

In this program, you will learn to lead meetings where everyone recognizes that they have shared goals, how to navigate the demands from each stakeholder, and to leverage your daily interactions into opportunities for growth.