Employing HLPs and EBPs to Support Collaboration by Caitlin Hollenbeck

motherearthspice — 2025-08-26 03:22:05 UTC

Evidence Based Practices:

General Education teachers and Special Education teachers can co-plan the lessons.
Team meetings can be planned and attended to ensure teachers are staying consistent and updated on student progress.
Teachers can use Universal Design for Learning to create lessons that support all learners.

motherearthspice — 2025-08-26 03:22:25 UTC

Evidence Based Practices:

Preparing the topics before the meeting begins and ensure all parties are aware of the planned discussion.
Educators should meet prior to the meeting to create a bond with the families.
Follow-up with families after the meeting to monitor progress and open communication if future questions occur.

motherearthspice — 2025-08-26 03:22:42 UTC

Evidence Based Practices:

In order to keep parents involved, they should be in the discussion of IEP goals.
Build an honest and respectful relationship with parents to keep conversations flowing.
Encourage parents to continue practice opportunities at home and discuss progress with the educator.

Article #1: Collaborative Teaching Between Special Education Teachers and Mainstream Teachers in Inclusive Education

motherearthspice — 2025-08-26 03:23:16 UTC

In this article, collaboration between SPED and GE teachers are studied and it is proven that collaboration improves the quality of instructional planning. GE teachers provide the content knowledge and the SPED teachers provide the accommodations needed.

Article #2: Investigating special education teachers’ knowledge and skills: Preparing general teacher preparation for professional development

motherearthspice — 2025-08-26 03:23:23 UTC

This article discusses how training with general education teachers could benefit to use the data and communicate effectively with the special education teachers. The study shows that special educators have the experience in assessments and student needs.

Article #3: Collaboration and Communication between General Education and Special Education Teachers

motherearthspice — 2025-08-26 03:23:34 UTC

This article describes how effective collaboration with professionals requires communication and responsibility from both sides. Having these opportunities to collaborate will increase student successes in the classroom.

Video Resource: Co-Teaching & Teacher Collaboration

motherearthspice — 2025-08-26 03:24:03 UTC

This video reviews the key collaborative approaches, such as consulting, team planning, co-planning, inclusive classrooms, and co-teaching models. These co-teaching models include One Teach, One Support, Parallel Teaching, Station Teaching, Alternative Teaching, and Team Teaching. It supports having both educations engage in instruction and flexible student centers.

Technology Resource #1: Padlet

motherearthspice — 2025-08-26 03:25:13 UTC

Similarly to how I am utilizing Padlet, it would be a platform to place IEP documents and resources. This would be beneficial for General Education and Special Education teams to collaborate on strategies/worksheets inside the classroom.

Technology Resource #2: Jotform

motherearthspice — 2025-08-26 03:25:48 UTC

Jotform will let multiple users edit documents, create assessments, and input information from students. Jotform can also track IEP goals and collect progress reports to ensure the team stays informed.

Technology Resource #3: Google Drive

motherearthspice — 2025-08-26 03:26:31 UTC

Google Drive will allow educators edit, create, and share resources in real time. Teachers can create the IEP meeting agendas and share folders for resources.

Article #1:Evidence-Based Strategies to Make Team Meetings More Effective

motherearthspice — 2025-08-27 23:45:27 UTC

This article is a great resource because it is simple read. It reviews being thoughtful of the time for everyone, beginning by introducing everyone in the meeting, and allowing for feedback after the meeting.

Article #2: MEETING MADNESS Maximizing Meeting Experiences to Promote Higher Productivity and Effectiveness

motherearthspice — 2025-08-27 23:45:36 UTC

This resource is full of helpful information because it reviews helpful tips on how to organize the meetings to ensure they are inclusive and results-orientated. Research is proven that when meetings are planned and structured, it directly correlated to a positive work environment.

Article #3: IEP Meeting Facilitation Strategies for Meaningful Inclusion of Students with Disabilities

motherearthspice — 2025-08-27 23:45:44 UTC

This article reviews preparing before the meeting by fostering familial connections and how important it is for students to be a voice in the meeting. Creating the meeting agenda beforehand so all participants are prepared is helpful as well.

Video Resource: How to Prepare For and Run Efficient IEP Meetings

motherearthspice — 2025-08-27 23:45:57 UTC

This video presents a clear pathway into how to run an efficient IEP meeting. Beginning with preparing, clear agenda, and foster communication between the family and yourself.

Technology Resource #1: SIRAS Systems

motherearthspice — 2025-08-27 23:46:14 UTC

SIRAS stands for Special Education Information System that is used to manage the records and services. Within the program, you can create and store IEPs and ensures alignment with compliance.

Technology Resource #2: EDPlan

motherearthspice — 2025-08-27 23:46:19 UTC

EDPlan is an online platform to create and manage IEPs, while allowing progress monitoring and compliance checks. This program works well with 504 plans and provides translations.

Technology Resource #3: Embrace IEP (Embrace Education)

motherearthspice — 2025-08-27 23:46:25 UTC

Embrace IEP is a great program because it offers editing IEP goals, along with a goal bank available. It offers step-by-step directions for new educators to provide full accessibility.

Article #1: Empowering Parents of Students With and Without Learning Difficulties to Collaborate With Schools

motherearthspice — 2025-08-27 23:46:44 UTC

This article reviews how families can stay involved in their child's learning and the role that they can adopt (active collaborator or passive observer). The findings of the article are dependent on the families' contextual factors and how to facilitate meaningful partnerships.

Article #2: A Family’s Journey to Getting the Support Their Son Needed

motherearthspice — 2025-08-27 23:46:50 UTC

This was an enlightening article that provided insight into the beginnings of navigating the special education world and securing the services needed for their child. It also reviews helpful tips to parents to learn more and advocate for themselves.

Article #3: Special Education Advocacy Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families

motherearthspice — 2025-08-27 23:47:00 UTC

This article highlights the need for educators to understand the cultural and linguistic backgrounds of families in order to fully support and collaborate. The results and suggestions demonstrate from data that schools can design culturally responsive interventions through trainings for staff.

Video Resource: Collaborating with Families

motherearthspice — 2025-08-27 23:47:12 UTC

This video is a useful resource because it promotes the prospect of having a shared communication with parents. Keeping them involved throughout the year on their student's progress is essential because they can provide insight from the home perspective.

Technology Resource #1: Bloomz

motherearthspice — 2025-08-27 23:47:24 UTC

Bloomz is a great communication app because it provides translation imbedded and allows parents to communicate. It also has a calendar and tools for scheduling parent-teacher conferences.

Technology Resource #2: Remind

motherearthspice — 2025-08-27 23:47:30 UTC

Remind is easily accessible for parents and educators to use because you can make phone calls through the app. If you send a message, it will automatically translate and the teacher can send announcements.

Technology Resource #3: Seesaw

motherearthspice — 2025-08-27 23:47:43 UTC

Seesaw is unique because you can share private notes and send documents through this application. Students can use Seesaw as a learning application so parents can see their schoolwork and progress.