Twenty years of frontline Illinois case management distilled into systems, training, and coaching for the people who carry the weight of IEPs — districts, case managers, and families.
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A complete professional development system for K–12 special education teams. Eight modules across three tracks — Systems & Setup, The IEP, and Compliance & Follow-Through. Four delivery formats including district licensing and train-the-trainer.
Explore the InstituteA free resource to start, and the complete Field Guide — $34, with a free 20-minute consultation included. Plus case consultation and ongoing mentorship for practitioners at every stage.
Get the Field GuideA free IEP guide to start, and the Complete Parent IEP Toolkit — $34, with a free 20-minute consultation included. Plus document review, pre-meeting coaching, and 1:1 advocacy support.
Parent SupportTrust is built before the meeting, not during it. By the time everyone sits down, surprises should be off the table.
Clean data — yours, the student's, and the family's. Rolling medians, aimlines, three-data-point rules. The honest number.
What is best for the student is always the right answer — even when it is the harder one. Especially then.
If it was not documented, it did not happen. The case managers who navigate scrutiny with confidence are the ones with records.
A complete operating system for Illinois special education case managers — from the first parent phone call before school starts to post-meeting documentation. Includes Illinois IDEA legal timelines, present-level samples, IEP goal banks, and progress monitoring forms.
Goal banks, scripts, present-level examples, timeline updates — delivered when something new is published. No fluff, no selling, unsubscribe anytime. Everything here stays free to read either way; this just tells you when there's more.
I spent more than two decades as a special education case manager in K–12 public schools in Chicago's northwest suburbs — facilitating hundreds of IEP meetings, including the hard ones, the contested ones, and the ones that arrived with history attached.
I am also the parent of two children who receive special education services. I have sat in those meetings knowing exactly how the school staff on the other side of the table were trained to run them. That experience — from both sides — is what this practice is built on.