Key2Ed Services

Key2Ed has designed and delivered professional development programs to thousands of educators nationwide.

Key2Ed’s staff members each have more than twenty years of experience as educators.

They are able to relate the materials, concepts, and strategies to your staff’s real-world issues.  Their practical experience across many different educational settings nationwide means that your staff are sure of receiving the most effective professional development program possible.

The Conflict Prevention and Resolution through IEP Meeting Facilitation Workshop is the foundation for Key2Ed’s facilitation program. Thousands of educators have completed IEP facilitation training in Key2Ed FIEP workshops nationwide.

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

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Many participants in Key2Ed’s IEP Facilitation Workshop ask for additional training to validate the skills they learned and have put into use.

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

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Most attendees of IEP meetings do not facilitate the meetings. However, they are active participants with a need to understand the role of the facilitator and the approaches and techniques used by the facilitator. These people can include:

  • School administrators
  • Classroom teachers
  • Parents
  • Related services providers
  • Counselors
  • Social workers
  • Advocates

Participants will leave with a clear understanding of their role in the meeting as well as how to prepare for active participation, ensuring the meeting process stays focused on the needs of the student.

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This 6-hour training is for participants who have completed the initial FIEP workshop and have implemented the Key2ed facilitation model in their IEP meetings. This training will provide instruction to IEP facilitators in successfully preparing students to co-facilitate their own IEP meetings. The training is designed to teach how to set-up, conduct and have follow through with the student being a co-facilitator in the process. Participants will be prepared to deploy skills learned and practiced through the training the very next day. The training is limited to 30 participants per training session.

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This 90 minute Key2Ed workshop presents ideas/concepts on creating a welcoming culture while serving education’s customers and how to provide exemplary service to them. Participants explore best practices in customer service and discuss how to utilize and adapt these practices to education at the district and school levels. Communication tools, activities, and ideas will be presented to enable district staff (all educators and classified staff) to develop lasting positive relationships with each other, families, students, and the surrounding community.

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Have you ever been in a conversation where you are sure others are listening to respond rather than to understand? How about when you are talking but you feel that no one is really listening? Do you walk away from certain conversations thinking, “They just don’t get it!” Meaningful team conversations spur collaboration, promote growth, and increase productivity. They also enable the team to leave the conversation feeling more connected.

This three hour presentation combines research based and practical skills for serving education’s primary, secondary, and internal customers through meaningful, equity-based conversations and practices.

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Many school districts utilize consultants to perform audits of special education programs.

These audits can yield data and information about what is going well and what areas need improvement – and often even provide sources and information for solutions for these District-wide challenges.

The “Task Force and Devising Seminar” process is different.

District administration – with the assistance of the Key2Ed facilitators – will identify two or three (no more) challenges to target. These challenges will then be addressed through a Devising Seminar. A Devising Seminar is a facilitated session with representatives from all the stakeholder groups brought together to identify solutions to the selected problem and create a workable action plan designed to reduce and even eliminate disputes.

This process ensures that all the Stakeholder groups have “skin in the game” because these are their solutions – not a consulting company’s. Therefore they have a vested interest in ensuring that these solutions can be implemented.

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