Special Ed Teacher Survival Guide - How to run IEP meetings, write goals you can measure, fix the IEPs you inherited, and keep up with compliance paperwork as a new special education teacher or case manager #1011934

You said yes to the kids. Nobody mentioned the folders. Somewhere between your first caseload printout, an IEP written by someone who has since left, and an email thread about finding a meeting time that works for seven adults, you realized the job you trained for and the job you were handed are not quite the same job. Special Ed Teacher Survival Guide is a practical, plain-spoken companion for new special education teachers and case managers. It covers the paperwork and meeting side of the work that most programs barely touch: reading files, tracking dates, fixing goals you did not write, running meetings, working with paras and colleagues, and building a workload you can sustain. This book is written for the teacher, not the parent. It is not a family advocacy guide, and it is not a general classroom-management book. It stays on the part of the job that happens at the table and in the file cabinet, in US public schools, with the legal details clearly marked as varying by state and district. Inside, you'll learn: You do not need to have it all figured out by October. You need a system, some good wording, and the right people to call.