IEP ADVOCATE MASTERMIND CLUB
- BEGINS JANUARY 2018 -
A Professional Business Club with Mentoring, Resources, and Education
Are you a professional IEP Advocate or Consultant? Join an active, energized tribe of colleagues. This Mastermind Club is one of a kind in our profession: it's a continuing education group of daily, weekly, and monthly support in all areas of your career. Join for just one month or stay as long as you like. There are no contracts or commitments. Scroll down to see what Members receive.
IEP CONSULTANT & ADVOCATE
MASTERMIND CLUB
A BUSINESS CLUB FOR IEP SPECIALISTS
This is NEXT LEVEL MENTORING and SUPPORT.
You understand the theory. Now it's time to heighten your effectiveness.
Practice and prepare to break deadlocks in IEP and 504 meetings.
Get feedback and guidance from people who are in the trenches just like you.
Experience the relief and a-ha moments from roundtable discussions of difficult situations and data conundrums.
Be part of a tribe that provide emotional and mental support for the intense work you pour your heart into.
Experience role playing in mock IEP and 504 meetings with highly experienced advocates and experts who have dealt with stonewalling and objections at hundreds and thousands of meetings.
Live and FB forum access to mentors and colleagues about your business, time management, and client questions.
We know you invest in resources with an expectation of high ROI for yourself, your business, your clients, and the special education system. You're working to make an impact. You're our kind of expert.
BOOK STUDIES WITH Q & A
Know What It All Means When It Really Matters
Learn how the law and regulations actually work in the context of real clients and real meetings. We have biweekly reviews and Q & A about IDEA, the regs and rules via a review of chapters within helpful special ed books. It's important to know the basics and the recent interpretations of the law by hearing officers and judges. You have plenty of sources to rely on, so the Club isn't reinventing those wheels. But we lock arms and walk through theory with immediate and powerful discussions of "what does this look like when I'm helping a client, in a meeting, when tensions are high, when the district isn't cooperating?" Twice a month, join us by phone for a review and discussion with Q & A. Replays always waiting for you at your convenience, too.
DISABILITY EXPERTS: MONTHLY INTERVIEWS WITH Q & A
Disabilities and Interventions Taught by Experts
Your clients are your number one priority, and you'll go the extra mile to make sure they’re completely satisfied with your work. You can't do this unless you understand - very well - what your client's disabilities consist of and what interventions and approaches actually work. What do you need to know in order to be an informed, confident voice with your clients in and out of meetings? Join these monthly expert interviews and actually ask questions - live.
CASE ANALYSIS & ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS WITH TROUBLESHOOTING - TWICE A MONTH
Community Support For All Cases
This specific service is designed to analyze, confront, and solve your consulting & advocacy needs. You have to provide customized solutions to all your clients, and typing everything out to an email list serve is limited in its ability to convey all the facts and nuances that exist in our complex fact patterns in special ed. The Club provides you with live support so that you can maintain your reputation as an extremely results-oriented professional. On these Case Analysis & Roundtable Discussion calls with Club colleagues, you can work through individual questions or apply for a hot seat session and go through the entire decision-making process so that you are not leaving any stones unturned. Concerned you might not be aware of all facets of a case? Want to bounce ideas and approaches off other professionals in a low-key, confidential and convenient way? This is it, and it's a weekly call with replays in case you miss the live one.
LIVE Q & A VIA FACEBOOK LIVESTREAMS & FB GROUP ACCESS - WEEKLY AND 24 HRS A DAY
Get Answers and Feedback Now
Ever wonder if you've missed something important in your assessment of a client's case? Going into a meeting with a tricky set of dynamics and hidden agendas on the district's side? Want to learn how to argue without looking and sounding belligerent? Fed up with self doubt and want to take your confidence to a new level this year? There is NO replacement for mentoring and guidance by colleagues who are slightly further ahead on the pathway. And the brainstorming of ALL the community can open doorways to ideas that you may never have considered. Here's where you'll get this kind of help. Weekly livestreams and daily forum access.
BUILDING YOUR BUSINESS AS AN ENTREPRENEUR - AVAILABLE 24 HOURS A DAY
A Comprehensive Approach
Want to learn how to grow a business? Everything from marketing to time management, scheduling calls and consultations, software and apps to help you bring your "A" game, records organization and safe keeping, payment procedures, and insurance. It's all in the Club Library. And you can ask questions any time on FB Livestreams once a week and 24 hours a day in the FB Group.
MOCK IEP & 504 MEETINGS
What to Say, When, and How
This is where the rubber meets the road. All the books, manuals, webinars, and certifications can't help you unless you know what to say, when to say it, and how to say it - and back it up - in a meeting. For the IEP Advocates who are faced with negotiations, strategizing, advocating, persuading, requesting, and sometimes breaking deadlocks and finding unusual compromises - this kind of real life training and experience, in a safe and collegial call - is what you need. Offered twice a month with replays.
TEMPLATES, CHECKLISTS, BEST PRACTICE DOCUMENTS, AND SAMPLE LETTERS
Fantastic Resources
Videos, templates, checklists and best practices - including letters for parents and samples. All of these are housed in the Club Library, which you have access to at all times. Ask questions in the FB Group or on the FB Livestreams.
Do you need help making important decisions with your special ed cases? Join the Club today and let's get you the answers you need.
In this Club, we emphasize what builds your effectiveness because THAT is what clients are paying for. If you understand IDEA and ADA, have a solid understanding of the standards in your circuit, state, and hearing jurisdiction, and if you know where to find answers within state rules/regs, then what we offer in this Mastermind Club is the next step for you. Honing your practices as an IEP Consultant and Advocate should focus on those skills and tools that bring the most effective outcome for you and for those you serve. Learn to spot the issues, ask the right questions, ask a LOT of questions, brainstorm with colleagues, and practice being an incredible help to families who are stressed.
When you join the Mastermind Club, we utilize the experience you have already established in the work you’ve been doing. As you are guided and as YOU also guide others, you will continually build upon the strengths you have developed in the various skill sets you already use. This is how mastery is developed.
The Mastermind Club allows you to learn at your own pace and with your own learning style. We have videos, blogs, power-points and books to support you. We also offer live Q & A because being able to talk through issues is an extremely helpful tool for becoming increasingly effective in special education consulting and advocacy. We will be using books and other materials that serve your learning best, as we facilitate twice-monthly Book Study Calls, with an emphasis on the practical application
Want to hone skills through role playing tough discussions in IEP meetings and 504 Meetings, as well as looking closely at your toolbox of strategies and styles of negotiation, communication, and professionalism? It's all a part of the Club. Ever wonder how other people behave and speak at their meetings? In the Club, you will hear the best of others' strategies and practices that you can adopt if it suits your style and needs.
Ever Wonder If You're Alone In Feeling Frustrated or Stuck? You're Not. Read On...
FAQ FOR IEP CONSULTANTS & ADVOCATES...WE'VE BEEN THERE!
WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR TOP FRUSTRATIONS WHEN IT COMES TO IEP CONSULTING AND ADVOCACY? HERE ARE SOME ANSWERS YOU MAY BE ABLE TO RELATE TO...
I don’t know what is going on with XYZ. I need more training.
Nobody from the district seems to listen to me in IEP or 504 meetings. Hello, is anyone paying attention?
The school team is working on an alternative agenda. Hidden landmines and motives are everywhere. I feel unprepared.
Managing parent expectations
Feeling ganged up on in meetings/bullied
Adversarial environment with upset or angry team members
Building the business (new clients, marketing, time management, mentoring)
Paperwork galore - organizational headaches
Not knowing where to go for the answers to all my questions
Not having a support group when I need it
Second guessing myself and self-doubt
GUESS WHAT? WE HAVE *ALL* EXPERIENCED THESE THINGS AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER. GET HELP IN THE MASTERMIND CLUB.
WHAT OFTEN KEEPS YOU UP AT NIGHT? SOUND FAMILIAR?
Anger at the school
Fear and frustration for children with disabilities
I am afraid of making a mistake.
Not receiving appropriate payment for my my expertise and time
Districts that put 'policy' over the law and the child's needs.
Clients who go rogue in meetings or don't tell me important details.
Feeling overwhelmed with details and paperwork.
Overworking, overscheduling, and generally overtiredness.
WHAT ARE SOME IDEAL SOLUTIONS YOU WISH WERE AVAILABLE FOR YOU?
Learning how to have powerful and collaborative meetings
Helping parents and/or schools deliver records to me - in their entirety & timely
Learning organization systems for my business - online and offline
Templates and checklists
Time management tools
Learning marketing & networking
Being a part of a supportive community of others who really "get" what I'm doing
Feeling calm and confident about my impact as an IEP Consultant or Advocate.
Reducing my concerns about key issues within cases and making sure the team is not overlooking solutions
Having a deeper understanding the very vague and complex laws that govern special ed
Learning how to collaborate in a meeting deadlock without rolling over or raging
Learning how to obtain more and/or appropriate services
Understanding nuances of disabilities
Knowing which interventions and strategies are proven effective for my client's needs
Knowing what to request and how to present data to support it
Writing goals that actually matter in skill development & progress
Knowing how to match up service hours to the needs of a child and the goals
Finding more ways to enforce compliance with 504 Plans & IEPs
Knowing more about DTT - ABA - Autism
Discussing and learning more about inclusion - what works and how?
ESY - what to do about it, how to make it meaningful?
How do we obtain ESY Private Placements?
Knowing more about how to obtain Private Placements or services outside the district
Learning more about compensatory education - why, when, how to get it
What to do about all the In School Suspensions
How to handle "come pick him up" calls and discipline
What is an FBA and BIP really designed to do
How to help with mediations, complaints, etc.
How to escalate an issue within a district to get to solutions faster
...Join us and find solutions and answers inside the Mastermind Club. Only $97 a month for professional business education and support also gets you frequent mentoring and access to experts and colleagues. Monthly payments with no commitments and no contracts. Stay as long as you like and leave when you wish.