Educational Rights Training Series

PEAC’s Educational Rights Training Series educates parents, teachers, school administrators, education students, service providers, and community members on their rights and responsibilities as stakeholders in inclusive education. The series also explains the foundations and processes of inclusive education and provides parents, teachers, and administrators with the skills and guidance needed for successful collaboration. If you are interested in checking out the PowerPoint presentations for these workshops, receiving copies of the handouts, or scheduling a workshop in your area, please This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . 

• Planning an Inclusive and Collaborative Transition

• Speaking for System Change: How to Share Your Story

• Special Education Law: Building Blocks and Basics

• Aligning IEP Goals with State Standards for Education

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Planning an Inclusive and Collaborative Secondary Transition:

This workshop helps parents of children with disabilities understand the process of transition to post-school life. It includes goals for transition, people and organizations to work with, suggested timelines, and additional resources.

Handouts included in this module:

• Student and family responsibilities

• Yearly checklist for best practices

• Sample IEP for a college-bound student

• Sample IEP for an employment-bound student

• Adolescent autonomy checklist

• Sample vision statements

• Transition Educational Exiting Profile (CLIU 21)

• A Workbook for Your Personal Passport (Allen, Shea & Associates)

• Employment Manual for the Pennsylvania Community Mental Retardation System

• Resources for the Transition Process

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Speaking for System Change: How to Share Your Story:

This workshop helps parents of children with disabilities in sharing their families' stories and experiences with special education with others. This workshop helps parents think about and redefine their personal experiences and provides a framework for the start-to-finish process of putting a story together. The ultimate goal of the workshop is to develop a presentation to share with parents and educators, but it can also be useful simply for sharing informal stories at IEP meetings, parent group meetings, etc. The workshop includes examples of effective stories, tips on preparation and delivery, and suggestions for practice. Sharing information is the foundation of learning and growth; by learning how to effectively share experiences with others, parents instantly create opportunities to advocate for inclusive education and the rights of children with disabilities. 

[Based on a curriculum created by the Center for Innovation in Special Education in Missouri in 2004 and adapted into the Parents as Presenters workshop by Pennsylvania Natural Allies (PA Department of Public Welfare) in 2005.]

• Effective presentations tip sheet

• Key presentation points tip sheet

• Sharing your story worksheet

• David Perry, Football Player: A story of inclusion at its best

• Resources and references for sharing your story

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Special Education Law: Building Blocks and Basics

Handouts in this module include:

• Annotated IEP (PaTTAN)

• NOREP (PaTTAN)

• Supplementary Aids and Services (PDE)

• Special Education Law: Major Themes

• What to do if you feel your child is not getting what he is entitled to

• Resources and references for special education law

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Aligning IEP Goals with State Standards for Education

Every goal listed in a child’s IEP should address a state standard for education.This workshop introduces parents and teachers to the standards-based IEP goals and reviews ideas for addressing state standards in the IEP. It also reviews the goal of academic standards, relevant standards in Pennsylvania, and offers steps for ensuring IEP alignment with those standards.

Handouts in this module include:

• Pennsylvania Standard 1.6

• 3rd Grade Reading

• Matching Standards and Indicators to Activities and Skills

• Measurable Goal Statements

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