Especially for Families
Especially for Educators
Team Mission:
Provide leadership to improve outcomes and ensure a free appropriate public education for students protected under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
Team Beliefs:
- We believe that supporting a culture of high expectations to promote excellence for all students is best achieved through intentional partnerships.
- We believe educational decisions are made with and by students and their families, supporting students to become experts in their own learning and active participants in determining their future.
- We believe all educational environments should be accessible, inclusive and equitable to achieve social justice.
- We believe that everyone brings valuable perspectives that deserve representation when developing and implementing policies and best practices.
Collective Commitments:
We commit to...
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The intentional use of an equity lens while making policy decisions, recommendations, and determining work priorities
- Providing excellent customer service through using a trauma informed care lens if applicable, while empathizing and humanizing families’ experiences navigating the special education systems
- Partnering with stakeholders in an authentic way to ensure lived experience is evident in all we do
- Providing timely, accurate information
- Maximizing human and financial resources to promote equity, high expectations, and positive outcomes for students with IEPs
- Questioning the status quo to bring underlying assumptions to the surface
- Embracing flexibility rather than protecting silos
- Collaborating and networking with intention
- Using asset-based language as evidenced by highlighting successes as well as gaps to illustrate positive student outcomes
- Promoting and modeling socially valued roles across all teachers, families, and educators
- Supporting our teammates