Patrick Chambers

Use this Google Sheet to map out the IEP timelines for each of the student's on your caseload. It's a smart sheet that will populate the projected dates based on each of your student's IEP due dates. You can manipulate your ideal timelines to match when your caseload's IEP occurs: shortening the timeline if you have a lot of your meetings in the fall or elongating it if you have a Spring heavy caseload. The dates in the populated cells will also turn the cell red after the date has passed to giv

Use this Google Sheet to map out the IEP timelines for each of the Transition (8-12th grade) student's on your caseload. It's a smart sheet that will populate the projected dates based on each of your student's IEP due dates. You can manipulate your ideal timelines to match when your caseload's IEP occurs: shortening the timeline if you have a lot of your meetings in the fall or elongating it if you have a Spring heavy caseload. The dates in the populated cells will also turn the cell red aft

Special Education Case Management Transition IEP timeline tracker/organizerUse this Google Sheet to map out the IEP timelines for each of the Transition (8-12th+ grade) students on your caseload. It's a smart sheet that will populate the projected dates based on each of your students' IEP due dates. You can manipulate your ideal timelines to match when your caseload's IEP occurs: shortening the timeline if you have a lot of your meetings in the fall or elongating it if you have a spring-heavy ca

As a means to integrate more formative assessment into classrooms, I compiled a list of easily accessible and low-to-no prep formative assessment tools.  The list includes a description of the method, when to utilize (start of lesson, during, after, etc.), and what level of analyzing is required to assess the objective.  These formative assessment strategies double as engagement strategies, engraining these into your daily instruction will promote greater learning opportunities and help assess l

Use this compilation of links to free online transition assessments around the web to help with your student's transition planning. The assessments are organized by transition domain (employment, post-sec. education, and independent living and broken down by the student's level of independence (minimal support needed, moderate support needed, and low-incidence). These are listed as open source/ free assessments around the web, I've just compiled them for your ease of assessment planning. You c

I've compiled a non-exhaustive, but thorough list of accommodations and modifications tied to deficit areas as a conversation starter for the team as they seek to best meet the needs of their students.  The document is grouped by deficit areas, an A & M hierarchy, along with guiding questions to consider with corresponding possible strategies.  Always consider what strategies are already established in your school especially when there's a cost involved, and always consult your admin when consid

Use this tool as an example for what needs to be written in each section of the Transition Plan. This example has correlating explanations for each part/each box to help you better understand what you should be looking for as your individualize for your students. This tool has pieces compiled from multiple Transition Plans for students of varying degrees of independence to give an array of what could go in each box/section. *This example is derived from Transition Plans using Illinois IEP

The idea behind this lesson is that there's ALWAYS more than one way to do something and that we can meet the desired outcome in a number of ways while we ensure we’re considering what our own skills are and what variables we are contending with.   We run into troubles when we teach a linear step by step task analysis approach to a desired outcome because variables are natural to our environment.  A variable can interrupt the process or the process starts on a variable (starting late, bus is l