IEP Team Meeting Facilitation Certificate

This is the new model for running IEP Team Meetings. There is no need to depend upon the State to provide IEP Facilitators when you already have them in-house.

Earning an IEP Facilitation Certificate allows district personnel to help build local level capacity to prevent and resolve disputes, and provides an important high-demand professional development credential. 

Developing more effective dispute resolution systems improves relationships between schools, parents and communities. And most importantly - keeps focus of children with special needs. 

A direct, step-by-step approach to adding the skills school districts are increasingly seeking for achieving more effective IEP Team Meetings.   

IEP Meetings are often fraught with emotion and communication issues that lead to conflict rather collaboration. This self-paced program provides a clear path to managing these meetings with success - even when advocates and lawyers are in attendance - resolving communication issues and building a collaborative process in every meeting to significantly increase success and reduce the cost and acrimony that often accompanies due process procedures. 

This is the way meetings should be run.

Make Facilitation the new IEP Team Meeting Model for your school by putting Facilitation skills in the hands of your teachers,  administrators, resource professionals and other local district personnel. The skills learned in this program can be used in the regular course of every meeting - achieving goals in a collaborative environment.

IEP Facilitation skills are needed by school leaders and staff. But educators and mental health professionals can earn extra income by offering IEP Facilitation services to school districts. It's a great way to provide a valuable and rewarding service that helps kids with special needs, their families and their schools while adding credentials and income to a career.

This program provides:

  • On-demand access to comprehensive video lectures, reading assignments, case studies, facilitation tools and facilitation techniques that will build collaboration and mediation capacity.

  • Forms, templates, and a meeting model to help you effectively lead IEP meetings.

  • Case studies that challenge you to find collaborative solutions to real world disputes between families and schools. 

  • An IEP Team Meeting Facilitation Certificate upon completion.

Discounts are available for group registrations of 10 or more participants. Call us at 800.306.1020 for special rates.

What People Are Saying:

This online course was very impressive. It is engaging, clear and dense with information that I can use immediately in my district. The atmosphere is relaxed, comfortable and conducive to learning.

Erika R.

Excellent. I will be able to use what I learned, especially reframing team members’ thinking as it relates to seeing a “loss” as a “win.”

Dave W.

Priceless. Worth everything to learn this process. I would highly recommend this training to anybody, especially if you’re trying to improve your skills.

Dasha M.

Includes an excellent balance of lecture, interaction and practice. The most stimulating and informative training I've been to in years.

Clair T.

This mediation training opened my eyes to communication issues that I was not aware of in our organization.

Arthur A.

Excellent training. Loved the stop-by-step process for resolving conflict. Very clear and concise.

William N.

$395.00 USD

Add the Special Education Mediation Certificate Program to your Course Library Today. When IEP disputes are not resolved at the school level, they are often elevated to outside Mediators, who assist in meeting with a school representative and parent in order to find a resolution acceptable to both sides. By learning to mediate these disagreements, you will be helping families and schools avoid due process hearings and litigation which is expensive for both parents and schools, and damaging to school-parent and school-community relationships. You'll simultaneously add an interesting new path and  great additional stream of income to your own career.

A direct, step-by-step approach to adding the mediation skills and knowledge about special education you need to help resolve disputes between schools and families while adding credentials and an additional stream of income to your career. 

IEP disputes are common in schools. More trained mediators are needed to assist in resolving these conflicts successfully. Meetings are often fraught with emotion and communication issues that lead to conflict rather than collaboration.

This self-paced program, already required for Special Education Mediators in some State Departments of Education and in some individual school districts, provides a Step-by-Step process for conducting mediation sessions that lead to successful outcomes. 

Help Special Kids, their families and their schools, while earning a great income.

There is a woefully insufficient number of professionals who have both special education knowledge and mediation skills. This program aims to fill that void. 

Mediators earn hundreds of dollars an hour for their work. 

Educators, special education professionals, mental health professionals and others can earn extra income by offering Special Education Mediation services to school districts across the United States. It's a great way to provide a valuable and rewarding service that helps kids with special needs, their families and their schools while adding credentials and income to a career.

This program provides:

 

  • On-demand access to  comprehensive video lectures, reading assignments, information and resources about Special Education Law and requirements, and examples of mediation tools and techniques.

  • Forms, templates, and a meeting model to help you effectively mediate special education disputes.

  • A Special Education Mediation Certificate  upon completion.