Same Team for Schools is not an IEP system and doesn't try to be one. It works beside the IEP system your district already uses and gets every adult who carries out the IEP ready to do it the same way.
Thirteen steps from the first concern to the next plan. Every step comes with its reading and its tools.
New case managers and general education teachers learn the process in plain language: the teacher's handbook, the Administrator's Guide, the Assessment Key, the MTSS and Problem-Solving Team guide, the Educator's Guide to Tiered Instruction, the 13-step roadmap and red-flag cards for PLCs. When a question comes up, Ask Dr. Long sends it to her.
A one-page sheet for every adult who works with the student, a fidelity log, a services check and a missed and make-up services tracker, so a missed service is caught early instead of argued about later.
The Administrator's Guide comes with its own tools: a Removal Day Counter with the 10-day rules, Dr. Long's administrator checklists, a quarterly Implementation Audit, a semester Self-Audit, a reference calendar and print-ready quick sheets.
Families using Same Team see the same state deadlines and the same checks on goals and services that your staff see, so both sides start the meeting from the same information.
No new student data to vet. Staff type a student number, never a name, and nothing a teacher types is sent to us.
Your IEP system is the legal record: the forms, the signatures, state reporting and Medicaid. Same Team for Schools doesn't do any of that and doesn't hold any of it. It's the training and the everyday tools that help staff carry out what's in that record.
Staff type a student number, not a name. Each school keeps its own key sheet on its own computer, and names are added only at the moment of printing. Everything runs in the browser.
Built by Elizabeth Long, Ph.D., a career educator with 32 years in public education and a special education director. Dr. Long has worked on both the district side and the parent side of the IEP table, including as a parent. She wrote the teacher's handbook, the Administrator's Guide, the Assessment Key and the guides to MTSS and tiered instruction, and Same Team for families runs on the same deadlines and checks. Built to work with schools.
The guide is open to anyone. The toolkit is $12.99 a month or $119 a year for an individual teacher, 7 days free. Plus applicable sales tax.
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