Secondary Sped Solutions
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Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Hi, I'm Jean-Marie — a National Board Certified Teacher with 26+ years in Special Education. I've worn a lot of hats over the years — classroom teacher, EC Facilitator, New Teacher Coordinator — and I've led hundreds of IEP, eligibility, and manifestation determination meetings along the way.
I was selected from over 8,000 applicants as a member of the Governor's Teacher Network (one of 450 statewide) to lead action research on professional development in Special Education — work that shapes the PD resources I design today.
After spending time in leadership roles, I made the choice to come back to the classroom — because working directly with students is where I want to be. But coming back also meant facing the same paperwork and compliance demands every SPED teacher knows too well. So I took everything I'd learned and built systems to streamline the process — less time on documentation, more time actually teaching.
Those systems are what I share here, alongside ready-to-run professional development that turns hard-won compliance know-how into training your whole team can use. My focus is secondary Special Education (ages 14–21), and everything I create is professional, age-appropriate, and built around the compliance areas that matter most: FAPE, LRE, and procedural safeguards.
If you're spending your weekends buried in IEP paperwork or second-guessing whether your documentation will hold up — or you're the one responsible for training the teachers who are — these resources and PD are built to take that off your plate.
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Super Winter PD Bundle | 12 Units of Secondary Sped PLC/Training/workshop
A full semester of secondary special education PD — built for the hardest months of the year.December through March is the gauntlet: mid-year reviews, amendment season, manifestation determinations, transition planning, and ESY decisions all land while your team is running on empty. This Mega Bundle gives you 12 complete units across four monthly bundles (December, January, February, March) — sequenced into one coherent compliance arc, anchored to IDEA 2004 and 34 CFR Part 300 with every citatio
9th - 12th
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Super Fall PD Bundle | 12 Units of Secondary Special Ed PLC/training/workshop
Stop building your PD from scratch.This is a full semester of secondary special education professional development — 12 complete units across four monthly bundles (August, September, October, November) — sequenced into one coherent compliance arc. Training builds the knowledge, Workshops build the skill, and PLCs build collective practice, all anchored to IDEA 2004 and 34 CFR Part 300 with every citation traceable. Written by a working NBCT case manager with 26+ years in secondary EC, this Mega
9th - 12th
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Spring/Summer PD MEGA BUNDLE | 12 Units IEP Compliance, Exit, Transition
You are expected to lead compliance professional development across the busiest stretch of the year — spring IEP season, exit and graduation paperwork, year-end audits, and next-year caseload setup — and building legally accurate, facilitator-ready sessions from scratch eats the evenings and weekends you do not have. This MEGA BUNDLE hands you a full Spring and Summer of secondary special education PD: 12 complete units across four monthly modules (April → July 2026), every session scripted, eve
9th - 12th
Not Subject Specific
6-Product PD & Compliance Bundle for Secondary SpEd Teams
Special education compliance isn’t one skill — it’s an ecosystem. Most departments train in silos: one workshop on IEPs, a separate session on discipline, maybe a handout on LRE. But compliance gaps don’t exist in isolation, and neither should your professional development. This library gives your team a complete, interconnected training and compliance system — from new-hire onboarding to ongoing LRE documentation. WHAT’S INCLUDED ✓SpEd Law for the New Case Manager — PD ModuleA
9th - 12th
Not Subject Specific
FAPE Legal Defense Pack | 7 SPED Compliance Tools | 34 CFR | IEP Documentation
When a parent files a state complaint or requests due process, one question determines the outcome: Can you prove FAPE was provided?Most districts can’t. Not because services weren’t delivered—but because the documentation doesn’t exist, isn’t organized, or doesn’t capture the right details. IEP meeting decisions go unrecorded. Parent contacts lack compliance timestamps. Observation walkthroughs miss critical SPED indicators. And when it’s time to defend your programming, the paper trail falls
9th - 12th
Not Subject Specific
New Case Manager Survival Kit | SpEd Law PD + Consent Tracking |Bundle
It's August. Your new case manager starts Monday. Can they write a legally defensible PWN? Do they know what triggers a manifestation determination? Can they tell a parent the difference between consent for evaluation and consent for services?If the answer is "we'll figure it out as we go," you don't have an onboarding plan — you have a compliance liability. Procedural violations are the #1 source of due process complaints, and most of them happen because nobody taught the new hire what the law
9th - 12th
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LRE Documentation System | 7-Product Compliance Bundle | Secondary SPED
LRE placement decisions are challenged in due process hearings more than almost any other IEP component—and most districts lose because they can’t produce the documentation. The LRE Documentation System is a 7-product bundle designed specifically for secondary special education case managers responsible for Least Restrictive Environment compliance. This toolkit addresses every major LRE documentation requirement: mapping the full continuum of placements, writing defensible justification s
9th - 12th
Not Subject Specific
Transition Compliance System | 7-Product IEP Transition Bundle | Secondary SPED
Transition is the #1 area of noncompliance in special education nationally—and most case managers are building their transition documentation from scratch every single time. The Transition Compliance System is a 7-product bundle designed specifically for secondary special education case managers responsible for transition planning in grades 6–12. This toolkit addresses every major transition compliance requirement: writing legally defensible post-secondary goals, conducting and documentin
9th - 12th
Not Subject Specific
Case Manager Survival Kit | 7-Product IEP Compliance Bundle | Secondary SPED
One procedural error. That’s all it takes to trigger a due process complaint—and most case managers are writing compliance documents from scratch every single time. The Case Manager Survival Kit is a 7-product compliance bundle designed specifically for secondary special education case managers managing full caseloads in grades 6–12. This toolkit covers every critical compliance area across the entire IEP lifecycle: from writing legally defensible goals and auditing IEPs before finalization
9th - 12th
Not Subject Specific
New Case Manager Starter Kit: 6-Product Compliance, Documentation & Training
New case managers don’t fail because they don’t care — they fail because no one hands them a system. They inherit caseloads with no file organization, write Prior Written Notices from scratch every time, miss consent deadlines because there’s no tracking tool, and make IEP amendment decisions without knowing the rules. This bundle is the onboarding kit that should exist in every secondary SpEd department: six interconnected products covering compliance foundations, documentation sy
9th - 12th
Not Subject Specific
Secondary IEP Progress Monitoring PD Bundle: 3 Units + Bonus Staff Session
Turn the most dreaded compliance task in special education into an hour-a-week habit your whole team can actually sustain.Secondary IEP progress monitoring collapses for structural reasons: the case manager owns the goal, but the student is scattered across six or seven gen-ed classrooms taught by teachers who never wrote it. Most teams patch the gap under deadline pressure — and the record pays for it at audit.This bundle delivers three complete PD units — plus a bonus whole-staff session you
9th - 12th
Not Subject Specific
March PD Bundle ESY Eligibility Determination Training + Workshop + PLC
Everything your IEP team needs to make — and defend — Extended School Year decisions, in one coordinated professional development arc. This three-unit bundle moves a team from understanding the ESY legal standard, to running a real multi-factor analysis on a secondary case study, to examining their own documentation together. By the end, your staff can write ESY determinations that hold up under monitoring and due process review.★ WHAT'S INCLUDED — THREE COORDINATED UNITSUnit 1 — ESY Eligibilit
9th - 12th
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Jan PD Amendment Season & Placement Decisions 3 Units | 42 Files | ~225 Minutes
Three compliance issues consume disproportionate time and create disproportionate exposure for secondary EC teams: amendments confused with annual reviews, manifestation determinations improvised under pressure, and placement patterns that go unexamined until state monitoring surfaces them.This 3-unit PD bundle addresses all three — with the procedural foundation, the deliberation skill, and the team-level system view. 42 files. ~225 minutes of facilitator-ready PD. Audit-ready documentation you
9th - 12th
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Aug PD Bundle | IEP Implementation & FERPA | Secondary SPED
Your staff needs IEP training — but not all at once, and not all the same kind. This complete 3-unit PD bundle sequences three formats across one month so every educator in your building, from general education teachers to paraeducators to case managers, understands their legal obligations, protects student records correctly, and writes IEPs that actually reflect student strengths. 34 files. 3 complete sessions. One coherent professional learning system. What's IncludedUnit 1 IEP Implement
9th - 12th
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EOY PD Bundle Year-End Compliance Close-Out & Reflection | Secondary SPED
The end of the school year is where compliance breakdowns happen fastest. Transfer of rights gets missed. Summaries of Performance are rushed or skipped. Exit criteria decisions lack documentation. And next year’s compliance calendar is already behind before it starts. This bundle gives your team the forms, templates, tracking tools, and planning guides to close the year legally defensible — and start the next one ready.WHAT’S INCLUDED✓Age-of-Majority Transfer of Rights Documentation KitForms, n
9th - 12th
Not Subject Specific
Feb PD Bundle Transition & Post-School Outcomes Training + Workshop + PLC
The Complete PD Bundle for Secondary TransitionStop assembling fragmented PD on transition assessment. This 3-unit bundle delivers a coherent professional learning arc — from understanding the adult service landscape, to selecting and synthesizing assessment evidence, to examining whether your team's narratives are actually useful to the people who read them.By the end of the bundle, your team has shared vocabulary, a shared 6-criterion rubric, a real PSG draft, and a documented team commitment
9th - 12th
Not Subject Specific
July PD Bundle | Caseload Management & IEP Language | Secondary SPED
Everything your secondary SPED team needs for compliance-focused summer PD — built directly from IDEA 2004 and 34 CFR Part 300. This bundle gives secondary special education case managers and EC teams two ready-to-run professional development sessions — plus a self-study bonus — all anchored to the federal regulations that govern their work. No generic inspiration. No icebreakers. Just compliance infrastructure that protects your students, your license, and your time. Bundle Contents UNIT 1
9th - 12th
Not Subject Specific
PD Post-School Outcomes & Indicator 14 PD 3 unit Bundle | Secondary SPED
Your Indicator 14 data tells the story. This bundle gives you everything you need to change it.Post-school outcome rates for students with disabilities are a federal accountability metric — and they are being watched. OSEP tracks them. State education agencies report them. And district compliance auditors ask about them. If your team can't clearly explain how your transition IEPs connect to positive post-school outcomes, this professional development bundle is exactly what you need.The Post-Scho
9th - 12th
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April PD Bundle | IEP Compliance Essentials | Secondary SPED
Your team marks “accommodations provided” without knowing the legal difference between an accommodation and a modification. LRE placements are defaults, not individualized decisions. AT is “considered — not needed” — with no documentation of what was actually considered.These aren’t knowledge gaps. They’re compliance vulnerabilities that put students and districts at risk. This 3-unit PD bundle builds the compliance foundations your team needs — from legal distinctions to team practice analysis
9th - 12th
Not Subject Specific
Dec PD Bundle | Mid-Year IEP Audit + Data Decisions | Secondary SPED
Three units. Three sessions. One complete December PD program. December in secondary special education means three things hitting at once: compliance gaps that still have time to be corrected before spring file reviews, IEP goals that need mid-year data decisions before annual reviews, and a team running on empty heading into winter break. This 3-unit bundle addresses all three — in the order they actually need to happen. ~210 minutes of facilitator-ready PD across three sessions, designed to be
9th - 12th
Not Subject Specific
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About the store
Experience
Hi, I'm Jean-Marie — a National Board Certified Teacher with 26+ years in Special Education. I've worn a lot of hats over the years — classroom teacher, EC Facilitator, New Teacher Coordinator — and I've led hundreds of IEP, eligibility, and manifestation determination meetings along the way.
I was selected from over 8,000 applicants as a member of the Governor's Teacher Network (one of 450 statewide) to lead action research on professional development in Special Education — work that shapes the PD resources I design today.
After spending time in leadership roles, I made the choice to come back to the classroom — because working directly with students is where I want to be. But coming back also meant facing the same paperwork and compliance demands every SPED teacher knows too well. So I took everything I'd learned and built systems to streamline the process — less time on documentation, more time actually teaching.
Those systems are what I share here, alongside ready-to-run professional development that turns hard-won compliance know-how into training your whole team can use. My focus is secondary Special Education (ages 14–21), and everything I create is professional, age-appropriate, and built around the compliance areas that matter most: FAPE, LRE, and procedural safeguards.
If you're spending your weekends buried in IEP paperwork or second-guessing whether your documentation will hold up — or you're the one responsible for training the teachers who are — these resources and PD are built to take that off your plate.
Teaching style
I teach through inclusion — I co-plan and co-teach alongside general education teachers to make sure IEP goals actually show up in daily instruction, not just on paper. That same collaboration is how I support other teachers: I start by explaining the why behind a practice — the compliance basis and the student-centered reasoning — then model it in real instruction, work side-by-side as colleagues try it, observe what's actually happening in the room, and refine the approach together until it sticks. Teaching teachers, like teaching students, isn't a one-time hand-off; it's a cycle of explaining, doing, watching, and adjusting.
I focus on building independence and self-advocacy in my students, especially at the secondary level where that matters most. Classroom management is relationship-first, and I lean heavily on positive behavior support over punitive approaches.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Selected for the Governor's Teacher Network (1 of 450 out of 8,000 applicants statewide) to conduct action research on professional development for Special Education, and presented the research at the statewide conference. Earlier in my career, I led a research project that reduced student suspension days by 47% through a decision-making program for at-risk students. But the moments that stay with me aren't the awards — they're watching my students walk across the graduation stage, running into former students out in the community living their lives, and sitting across the table from students and parents helping them map out their futures.
My own education history
Master in Varying Exceptionalities — NOVA Southeastern University, Miami, FL (2002). Bachelor in English — Florida International University, Miami, FL (1992). National Board Certified Teacher in Varying Exceptionalities. NC Standard Professional 1 licensure in English 9–12 and Cross Categorical K–12.
Additional biographical information
I started my career teaching English as a Foreign Language in Beijing before moving into Special Education in South Florida. I've taught in Florida and North Carolina across middle and high school settings. After seven years as an EC Facilitator in Durham Public Schools — coaching teachers, running compliance, and leading every type of EC meeting you can name — I chose to come back to the classroom because that's where I want to be. The resources and professional development in this store are built from over two decades of hands-on knowledge and expertise in Special Education law, compliance, and the day-to-day work of turning IEP goals into real instruction — the same explain-it, model-it, refine-it approach I use with students and the teachers I coach.compliance, and instructional practice. They are independently created on my own time, using my own tools — not developed for or on behalf of any school or district.
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