IEP Express 8'0

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IEP Express 8.0
Creating Effective Individual Education
Plans with
TM
Data Impact Software, L.L.C
Jeff Crockett jdcro_at_dataimpactsoftware.com
Ted Behn thbehn_at_dataimpactsoftware.com
Judy Mayle HenryMay_at_charter.net Zana
Tauriainen mtz_at_nc.rr.com
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Developed bySpecial Educatorsfor Special
Educators
Our team has over 100 years of experience in
developing special education plans.
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New Challenges for Special Educators

• New IDEA 2004 requirements
• Increased accountability
• Mountains of paperwork
• Redundant entry of data by hand
• Communication with parents
• Communication with general ed

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IEP Tools Are Needed That

• Fulfill federal and state requirements
• Help teachers efficiently collect student data
• Eliminate redundant entry of information
• Communicate with parents
• Communicate with general ed teachers
• Provide alignment with Michigan GLCEs
• Save time preparing progress reports
• Generate service logs for accountability
• Transfer records electronically

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IEP Express is a Database

• Data entered in one field automatically fill in
  all forms with that field.
• Pull down menus significantly speed up data
  entry.
• Forms can be spell-checked.
• Data can be copied from other electronic files
  and pasted into forms.
• Records can be electronically shared.
• Reports are easily read and have a professional
  look.

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IEP Express is easy to learn and use.
The basics include 1. Creating a Student
Record 2. Preparing a MET 3. Preparing an IEP 4.
Creating objectives 5. Generating a Progress
Report
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Step 1Creating a Record

After clicking the New Record button, a blank
record is created. A section of the Student Data
page is shown above. To enter data, simply click
in a field and type. Some fields, such as the
Position field, contain a pull down menu for
rapid data entry. The current age is calculated
daily. Student data, such as name and school for
example, automatically get entered on all forms.
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Step 2Preparing a MET
All forms in IEP Express are presented in a What
You See Is What You Get format. For example, this
MET form, Page 1 of 3, appears in IEP Express
exactly as it is printed out. To complete the
form, users click in fields and type information.
However, the form can be printed blank, or
partially completed, and completed by hand at the
users discretion.
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Step 3Preparing an IEP

• On the IEP form, demographic information from the
  Student Data page automatically fills. District
  information, entered when the user starts IEP
  Express for the first time, also fills in this
  form.
• Two of the fields in the Parent Contact area
  contain pull down menus that can be easily
  edited. Some areas, such as the signature lines,
  are completed by hand at any IEP and cannot be
  completed electronically.
• IEP Express 8.0 contains IEP forms that were
  revised in August, 2006, by Wayne RESA.

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Step 4Creating Objectives

• Creating Objectives is a breeze with IEP Express.
  A teacher refers to a printout of the objective
  bank, enters an objective number in the Objective
  Number field, and presses the Tab key. The
  matching Area, Goal, and Objective automatically
  fill. The teacher, with the aid of pull down
  menus, rapidly enters the Evaluation Method,
  Measurement, and Schedule.
• The objective bank contains the current K-12
  Michigan ELA and Math GLCEs along with hundreds
  of affective, communication, motor, and other
  objectives. The bank totals over 1600
  objectives. When a GLCE is selected, the GLCE
  code also appears.
• All of these objectives and the objective bank,
  itself, can be edited. There is no limit to the
  number of objectives selected.

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Step 5Generating a Progress Report

• The Progress Report fills automatically with the
  objectives that have already been selected along
  with four, six or eight columns of boxes
  depending on the number of report card markings.
• For each objective, the teacher can rapidly enter
  an alphanumeric code from a pull down menu. The
  code contains a letter representing the rate of
  progress and a status code indicating whether or
  not an objective is expected to be met by the
  next IEP.
• Also, an area is provided for entering optional
  comments. This field expands so that comments
  for all card markings can be printed in a single
  progress report.

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But There is More, Much More

• Service Logs that fill with selected objectives
  to document instruction for monitoring
• Evaluation reports
• Templates for recording results of over 40
  standardized tests
• Behavior plans
• Transition plans
• Transfer forms
• Accommodation Plan
• Parent Invitations
• Release of Information

All of these forms are simple and fast to use as
the basic forms. All of these forms are linked
together by a Site Map. Its impossible to get
lost. You can go from one form to any other in
two clicks.
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Testimonial

• Shortly after being introduced to IEP Express in
  1999, one of our Plymouth-Canton teachers said,
  IEP Express is the best thing thats happened to
  me professionally in 30 years of teaching in
  Special Education.
• We believe that is because we have listened to
  and delivered what special education teachers say
  they need. We continue to listen and that
  includes you.

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For more information

• Check out our website at dataimpactsoftware.com
• and
• Please look at our new product,
• Accommodate Pro 3.0,
• which provides an impressive array of tools to
• develop and track effective interventions
• for all students.

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