1. Creating Collaborative Standards-Based IEPs: A Training for IEP Team Members Introduction

2. Creating Collaborative Standards-based IEPs: This training was developed by the Partnership for People with Disabilities at Virginia Commonwealth University under contract with the Virginia Department of Education

3. TRAINING VALUES VALUES Everyone belongs Everyone can learn Everyone has gifts, strengths and talents Everyone‘s behavior is a way of communicating Everyone can make progress in their school’s curriculum

4. TRAINING CONTENT SessionTopic 1Collaboration 2Getting Ready for the IEP 3Developing the PLOP 4Developing Goals and Specially Designed Instruction 5Putting It All Together

5. THE TRAINING FORMAT The Way Things Are The Main Idea Lessons From Nature Points To Ponder

6. TRAINING MATERIALS YOU WILL NEED: A computer with PowerPoint software. Introduction and Session One through Session Five Training notes, slides and activities found on-line. (You may want to print out activities sheets prior to the start of each session.) It’s About Me! A Step-by-Step Guide for Creating My IEP – this booklet should be obtained to use along with the training materials. www.vcu.edu/partnershipwww.vcu.edu/partnership

7. “Since all creation is a whole, separateness is an illusion. Like it or not, we are all team players” John Heider “Rosenblum” by Matt Thompson