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Want to learn facilitative skills?

Improving IEP Teams: Skills for Resolving Conflict training focuses on improving facilitative skills and creating more effective IEP meetings.

Improving IEP Teams: Skills for Encouraging Productive Conversations and Resolving Conflict

Who Should Attend: Special Educators, Administrators, Parents, and Members of IEP Teams.

All IEP team members can benefit from learning dynamic facilitative skills to move through conflict. Because parents and educators may not share identical perceptions of the child or goals for the student, conflict may arise. Facilitative skills are helpful every day, at every meeting, and before disagreements become disputes.

This workshop is for any IEP team member interested in improving the IEP team process, including special education directors and coordinators, parents, special education teachers, general education teachers, school psychologists, school social workers, and other related service providers.

Skills and knowledge taught in the six-hour Improving IEP Teams workshop include*:

  • Understanding trust and consensus within special education
  • Knowing key components of IDEA
  • Identify tools to support meaningful participation of all team members – especially parents
  • Understand how and why conflict occurs in the IEP process
  • Learn important communication skills and develop active listening techniques
  • Learn ways to guard against assumptions
  • Identify ways to Balance the Power in a meeting

*Attendees must stay for the duration to earn credit hours.

Register now for the Improving IEP Teams: Skills for Encouraging Productive Conversations and Resolving Conflict Training!

When:  April 4, 2024 - 8:30 am-3:30 pm

Where:  1560 Broadway, 19th Floor Conference Room, Denver, CO 80202

Registration Link for Improving IEP Teams Training


Special Education Facilitator Training

When:   May 1st & 2nd - 8:30 am to 3:30 pm each day

Where: 1560 Broadway, Denver, CO 80202

May 1st - 11th Floor, Aspen Conference Room

May 2nd - 19th Floor Conference Room

Who should attend:  If you have attended our One-Day Improving IEP Teams: Skills for Encouraging Productive Conversations and Resolving Conflict, and you would like to continue your training to neutrally facilitate IEP meetings, sign up now!

Skills and knowledge taught in the 12-hour Special Education Facilitator training*:

  • Normalizing Conflict - Harnessing the positive power of conflict
  • Facilitation versus Advocacy
  • Constructing Productive IEP Meetings
  • Convening Productive IEP Meetings
  • Facilitating Open Discussions
  • Matching Resources to Resistance
  • Resolving Impasse
  • Facilitator Challenges
  • Ending a Facilitated IEP Meeting
  • Closing Facilitation
  • The Closure Letter
  • Understanding Your Role
  • Practice, Practice, Practice….
  • Self-Assessment and Feedback

*Attendees must stay for the duration to earn credit hours.

Registration Link for the Special Education Facilitator Training

 


Additional Trainings

Improving IEP Teams Training for Advocates!

TBD 

This training will provide the Improving IEP Teams: Skills for Encouraging Productive Conversation and Resolving Conflict content with a focus on:

  • Aligning your role as an Advocate with the IEP process
  • Using skills to improve IEP meetings for your clients.

Click here to register.

 

Improving Collaboration During Virtual Special Education Meetings

Choose one date:

TBD

All IEP team members can benefit from learning dynamic facilitative skills to support effective collaboration during Special Education meetings. Adjusting these skills for use in a virtual meeting setting can improve communication, enhance collaboration, and lead to more productive meetings. Facilitative skills are helpful every day, at every meeting, and before disagreements become disputes.

This workshop is for any Special Education team member interested in improving the collaboration during the special education process, including special education directors and coordinators, parents, special education teachers, general education teachers, school psychologists, school social workers, and other related service providers.

This training will address the following skills during the two-hour workshop:

  • Preparation for a successful virtual meeting
  • Developing tele-facilitation meeting guidelines and agendas to set expectations
  • Using charting and other tools to enhance communication during virtual meetings

Click here to register.

 


Want to learn facilitative skills?

Special Education Facilitator Training

TBD Total of 12 hours (2 6-hour sessions)

You must attend all sessions to receive credit.

If you have attended our One-Day Improving IEP Teams: Skills for Encouraging Productive Conversations and Resolving Conflict, and you would like to continue your training to neutrally facilitate IEP meetings, sign up now! 

This training includes:

  • Normalizing Conflict - Harnessing the positive power of conflict
  • Facilitation versus Advocacy
  • Constructing Productive IEP Meetings
  • Convening Productive IEP Meetings
  • Facilitating Open Discussions
  • Matching Resources to Resistance
  • Resolving Impasse
  • Facilitator Challenges
  • Ending a Facilitated IEP Meeting
  • Closing Facilitation
  • The Closure Letter
  • Understanding Your Role
  • Practice, Practice, Practice….
  • Self-Assessment and Feedback

Click here to register.

Registered participants will receive confirmation and access to a Google folder prior to the training.

 

Please Email Katherine Rains for more information on any of the trainings.

Specific training in your district can also be arranged.  Just email and we’ll get a date on the calendar!


Contact:

Katherine Rains, J.D.
Dispute Prevention and Assisted Resolution Supervisor
Exceptional Student Services Unit
1560 Broadway, Suite 1100, Denver, CO 80202
Phone: 720-990-1464
Email Katherine Rains

 

 

 


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