IEP at a glance
Your child's IEP or draft, read section by section into one sheet: its dates and placement, each goal, each service and each accommodation, with a question column beside every part. Everything you type stays in this browser.
For a first pass, the summary, goals and services sheets are essential: Reading the IEP asks for the IEP's dates, every goal, every service and at least one question. Accommodations can follow when you have time. A reader who skips this sheet reads the IEP once and has nothing to compare the draft, the final version or the progress reports against.
Summary
From the first pages of the IEP or draft (Reading the IEP). Copy what the document says; put anything you do not follow in Questions.
Goals
One row per annual goal (Reading the IEP and Goals, services and placement). Copy the goal; then split out the baseline, the target, how it is measured and how often progress is reported.
Services
One row per service (Reading the IEP and Goals, services and placement), with the amount, frequency, setting and provider the IEP states. The service time calculator can read any row here.
Accommodations and modifications
One row per accommodation or modification (Goals, services and placement), with where the IEP says it applies.
How to use this sheet
- Copy the IEP's own words. Fill each field from the document, using its wording where you can. Your own reading goes in the question columns.
- One row per goal, one row per service. A goal row splits the goal into its baseline, target, measure and reporting schedule (Goals, services and placement). A service row holds the minutes, sessions, period, setting and provider exactly as stated.
- Leave blanks blank. If the IEP does not state something, leave the cell empty and write a question beside it. A blank is information.
- One sheet per version. Fill it from the draft, then compare the final IEP line by line. Export the binder before you overwrite the draft's rows.
- The calculator reads this sheet. The service time calculator can take any service row.
The example row is Arjun Natarajan's speech-language service from Minnesota: 30 minutes, twice a week, in the speech room, with a speech-language pathologist. Every column the service statement must carry is filled, and the question column holds what Priya, his mother, wants to ask about sessions during a staff vacancy. The question asks; it does not say what is owed.
This sheet copies what the IEP says. It does not judge whether a present level, goal, service or placement is right for your child; that is the team's decision, and in a disagreement the processes in When you disagree decide it. A blank or a thin section is a question to ask, not a violation the sheet declares. Nothing here is seeded from setup, because the setup holds nothing about the IEP.