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Special Education Professional Development Workshops
Built by special educators, grounded in IDEA, and measured session by session — because your board deserves more than attendance sheets.
Every workshop is led by highly experienced, specially trained special-education professionals — and every session reports measurable outcomes back to your district.
Our ten most-requested workshops.
Ten IDEA-aligned special education workshops your team can bring on-site or run virtually — each with its own agenda, measured outcomes, and the research behind it. Explore any workshop below, or book a discovery call and we'll match the right ones to your district's data and goals.
IDEA Foundations: Special Education Law Training for Every Educator
Master the six pillars of IDEA — FAPE, LRE, evaluation, the IEP, parent participation, safeguards — through real cases, not statute recitation.
Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) & BIP Training That Changes Behavior
Rebuild the FBA-to-BIP process: operational definitions, ABC data that reveals function, and plans that teach — not just manage.
Manifestation Determination Review (MDR) Training — Without the Panic
Step-by-step MDR training: the legal triggers, the two questions every review must answer, and what happens after each outcome.
De-Escalation Training for Teachers, Paras, and Every Adult in the Building
Ground de-escalation in the nervous system: the escalation cycle, regulate-relate-reason, and an honest look at your crisis practices.
Science of Reading Training Built for Special Education
Use the Simple View and Scarborough's Rope as diagnostic tools, untangle SDI from structured literacy, and match interventions to reader profiles.
Difficult IEP Meetings: Dispute Resolution Training for School Teams
Map all five dispute pathways under IDEA — facilitation to state complaints — then master the prevention work that keeps families off them.
The Special Education Evaluation Process: Getting the Gateway Right
Walk the five steps of evaluation under IDEA, build fluency in the 13 disability categories, and confront the mistakes that become findings.
Progress Monitoring IEP Goals: Data That Proves Meaningful Progress
Turn progress monitoring from compliance ritual into instructional engine: defensible baselines, decision rules, and data stories your board can use.
IEP Transition Planning That Leads Somewhere: Ages 14–21
Build transition plans backward from adult life: postsecondary goals, real assessments, course alignment, and agency links that outlast a diploma.
Special Education Teacher Retention: Strategies That Outlast the Pizza Party
Skip wellness theater. Build what evidence supports: workload design, psychological safety, feedback cultures, and paraprofessional pathways.
This isn't generic PD.
Grounded in IDEA
Every workshop is traceable to federal law and evidence-based practice, not vendor trends.
Built by insiders
Designed by educators with decades on both sides of the IEP table, including as parents.
Measured, always
Per-session outcome data reported back to your district. Attendance sheets are not evidence.
We measure ourselves as closely as we ask you to.
Most PD vendors ask you to trust the energy in the room. We survey every session, read the full distribution — not just the average — and change the next session accordingly. That improvement cycle is open by design; here is what the current one shows.
In a single session, educators move more than a full band on our four-point scale — from emerging understanding to developing–proficient — on the exact content they came to learn.
Before you book.
Who are these special education workshops for?
Any educator who works with students with disabilities or supports those who do — general and special education teachers, paraprofessionals, related service providers, coaches, principals, and district leaders.
Are the workshops aligned with IDEA?
Yes. Every workshop is built on the requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and current evidence-based practice.
How do you measure whether professional development worked?
Every session includes outcome measurement, and results are reported to your district — knowledge growth, application, and impact, not attendance.
Can workshops be customized for our district?
Yes. Every engagement begins with a discovery call to match content to your data and goals.
Your students can't wait for generic PD to start working.
A 30-minute call to map the right workshops to your district's data and goals.
Book a Discovery Call →Field notes for special-education leaders.
Practical, evidence-based reads on IDEA, instruction, and building a system your educators want to stay in. No hype, roughly monthly.