Facilitated IEP
The Key2Ed founders also founded JDL Associates, and developed individualized education program (IEP) meeting facilitation in the 90s. Today, Key2Ed provides 3-day training in Conflict Resolution and IEP Meeting Facilitation for school districts throughout the country. These trainings concentrate on providing training to administrators, teachers, and staff. This training concentrates on providing the specific tools and techniques for IEP meeting participants to improve positive communication, reduce conflict, and focus the meeting on the needs of the child.
Participants learn to:
- Guide IEP teams to agree on appropriate, compliant, and effective IEPs.
- Channel communication to building mutual understanding based on respect.
- Create agreements based on full participation from all members.
- Generate informed discussions.
- Prevent, reduce, and resolve conflict.
Testimonials
"Dear Doug, I just wanted to thank you for developing, finally, a structure with appropriate strategies that provides an IEP meeting process that works! We have been working with this very involved family since Kindergarten. The student is now in Grade Five..."
- Sara E. Reilly - Greenwich, CT
