Pop-Up IEP

1. "It is not reasonable to expect the classroom teacher to describe everything to your child. She has 30 other students."

Federal Regulations:

Section 300.119(a)(b) Technical assistance and training activities. Each SEA must carry out activities to ensure that teachers and administrators in all public agencies--

(a) Are fully informed about their responsibilities for implementing Sec. 300.114; and
(b) Are provided with technical assistance and training necessary to assist them in this effort.

Section 300.156 (a) Personnel qualifications.

(a) General. The SEA must establish and maintain qualifications to ensure that personnel necessary to carry out the purposes of this part are appropriately and adequately prepared and trained, including that those personnel have the content knowledge and skills to serve children with disabilities.

IDEA 2004 (Public Law 108-446):

Section 601(c)(5)
Almost 30 years of research and experience has demonstrated that the education of children with disabilities can be made more effective by

(A) having high expectations for such children and ensuring their access to the general education curriculum in the regular classroom, to the maximum extent possible…
(D) providing appropriate special education and related services as well as aids and supports in the regular classroom whenever appropriate…
(E) supporting high-quality, intensive…professional development for all personnel who work with children with disabilities in order to ensure that such personnel have the skills and knowledge necessary to improve the academic achievement and functional performance of children with disabilities…

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Additional Information

Collabortive effort between the
National Center on Severe and Sensory Disabilities
and the National Organization of Parents of Blind Children