Trainings in Facilitation Skills

Want to learn facilitative skills?

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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, 504 coordinators, special education teachers, general education teachers, school psychologists, school social workers, and other related service providers.

Special Education facilitator, Katherine Rains, JD, 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

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Want to learn facilitative skills?

Special Education Facilitator Training

TBD Total of 12 hours (9 in sessions and 3 for work outside of the sessions)

You must attend all three sessions to receive credit.

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

This training includes:

• 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

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Registered participants will be emailed a Zoom link and access to a Google folder prior to the training.