Collaboration is an evidence-based and High Leverage Practice (McLeskey et al., 2019) and
essential to ensuring student’s needs are met. As part of developing an IEP, team members must
determine the student’s critical needs and develop goals based on those identified needs. Writing
goals collaboratively, is a way IEP teams can leverage their collective expertise and value of related
services to support a student’s needs in the school setting (Arner et al., 2022). In this session, we
will explore collaborative goal writing, progress monitoring strategies, and apply concepts to
anchor learning.
Objectives:
? Understand the benefits of wrap around services to collaboratively meet the needs of students.
? Identify parts of a goal
? Apply collaborative goal writing practices to co-construct a goal
Participants will need to bring a device with internet access and a redacted (all identifying
information completely removed) IEP for personal reflection (not sharing).