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Annual review

Annual review, prep first.

The hours GO-IEP costs teachers are mostly spent composing while clicking. Gather everything first, and screen time becomes data entry.

The short answer: Gather your data before opening GO-IEP, start the review from the student's timeline with an accurate meeting date, develop sections with accommodations justified in Present Levels, close prior progress reports, then audit and finalize.

Before you open GO-IEP

  • Current baseline and progress-monitoring data for every goal, with numbers. Goals need numerical mastery criteria to use GO-IEP's progress-monitoring features.
  • Service types and minutes as actually delivered, plus any proposed changes for the team
  • Recent assessment results and classroom evidence per area of concern
  • Which accommodations the student actually used, and evidence they're needed. You'll justify each one in the Present Levels areas of need.
  • Draft ideas for next year's goals (the team decides; walking in with drafts saves the meeting)
  • Parent input gathered ahead of the meeting, and a verified parent address on the Profile page, since it prints on the final PDF

In GO-IEP, in order

  1. Start the annual review from the student's timeline and complete the meeting notice. Triple-check the meeting date. Date errors cascade into progress-report and audit problems later.
  2. Develop the sections: present levels with data, measurable goals with an evaluation method that fits the goal type (official guidance warns percent accuracy doesn't fit social and emotional goals), accommodations, special factors, services, placement.
  3. Justify accommodations where the audit looks: every accommodation on State Testing or Student Supports needs the box checked and a justification written in the matching Present Levels area of need.
  4. Close every open progress report from the prior IEP, finalized or inactivated, in sequential date order. The halfway rule explained.
  5. Run Audit/Finalize and clear flags. Blue text names the section. Decoder here.
  6. Finalize deliberately. It's one-way. Changes afterward mean an amendment, and the Draft watermark drops.

Official sources

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