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CEC Quarterly Webinar | Develop IEPs that Meet the Supreme Court’s Meaningful Progress Standard

Includes a Live Web Event on 06/04/2025 at 4:00 PM (EDT)

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We're back! Each quarterly webinar with Dr. Mitchell Yell delivers exactly what special teachers and administrators need to know to develop educationally meaningful and legally defensible IEPs consistently. Meeting the Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District (2017) standard requires that IEP teams keep accurate progress monitoring data, develop appropriately ambitious and measurable goals, and craft and implement meaningful individualized services for students.

This spring refresher aims to teach a four-step method for developing measurable, ambitious, and legally sound IEP goals that will help ensure that students make progress and help teachers and administrators develop internally consistent IEPs. In this webinar, Dr. Yell will:
• Review the importance of conducting thorough assessments and crafting meaningful present-level statements.
• Teach a simple four-step method for ensuring that goals are actually measurable.
• Discuss the importance of graphically monitoring student progress toward the goals.
• Stress the importance of developing internally consistent IEPs

Be sure to bring your questions. If you can’t attend this session, there will be another in the fall!

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Dr. Mitchell Yell

Professor in Special Education

University of South Carolina

Mitchell L. Yell, Ph.D., is the Fred and Francis Lester Palmetto Chair in Teacher Education and a Professor in Special Education at the University of South Carolina. He earned his Ph.D. in special education from the University of Minnesota. His professional interests include special education law, IEP development, progress monitoring, and parent involvement in special education.

Dr. Yell has published 132 journal articles, 6 textbooks, 36 book chapters, and has conducted numerous workshops on various aspects of special education law, classroom management, and progress monitoring. His textbook, Special Education and the Law, is in its 5th edition. He also had been awarded almost $16 million in grants. Dr. Yell also serves as a State-level due process review officer in South Carolina. Prior to working in higher education, Dr. Yell was a special education teacher in Minnesota for 14 years.