For parents preparing for school meetings, writing emails, organizing records, and trying to keep the receipts straight.
By the time you’ve requested an evaluation and started documenting everything in writing, you’re going to have paper. Lots of it. Evaluations, emails, IEP drafts, report cards, therapy notes, correspondence with the district. Without a system, all of that lives scattered across your inbox, a kitchen drawer, and your own memory, which is exactly where…
Once you’ve submitted your written request for an evaluation, you’re going to be writing a lot of emails. This is just the truth of special education advocacy: email becomes your primary language with the district, and how you write those emails matters almost as much as what you’re asking for. I learned this slowly, through…
The email that turns a phone call into a record Most of the important things a school tells you, it tells you out loud. The teacher catches you at pickup. Someone calls on a Tuesday afternoon while you are at work. A conversation happens in the hallway after a meeting, in the five minutes when…
