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What It's Like to Be on the Other Side of the IEP Table

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In my 13 years as a special education teacher, I have sat at the IEP table more times than I can remember or count. Before each meeting, I walk in confident that I have prepared parts of the IEP, to be further developed in the meeting, that reflect the student’s ability and need with their best interest always in mind.

I am calm, cool and collected most times; a stark contrast to how I entered the first IEP meeting for my son, shaking, sweating and feeling scatterbrained.

The teacher side of the IEP table and the parent side of the IEP table feel very different. The emotional connection to that IEP that comes with sitting on the parent side is something those on the teacher side will never be able to understand.

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