Continuing Professional Education

Professional development for Texas SpEd teams, free and open to every educator.

Sessions on present levels, measurable annual goals, progress monitoring, service documentation and the ARD process, led by an EC-12 certified special education professional with six years of Texas SpEd experience. Face to face or live online. No cost, no district affiliation required.

Provider status

Until TEA assigns a provider number, sessions listed here are offered as professional development and are not advertised as TEA registered CPE. We will update this page the day the number is issued.

How it works

Attend, complete the session, receive your documentation.

Texas classroom teachers renew a standard certificate with 150 clock hours of CPE every five years. Principals, counselors, librarians, educational diagnosticians and reading specialists need 200. Clock hours are awarded at one hour of credit for one hour of instruction.

Catalog

Twenty-two sessions across four tracks.

All sessions are delivered face to face and live online, and both formats run the same agenda, the same practice tasks and the same rubric. Hours shown are creditable clock hours.

Flagship session

Documentation That Holds Up

Six clock hours on the full documentation chain, from present levels through service logs. You bring one student file, with identifying information removed, and leave with drafted documentation for that student and a routine you can repeat.

• Write a present levels statement that names the disability-related need, cites at least two data sources, and states baseline performance in observable terms.
• Draft measurable annual goals that follow from that statement and state the condition, the behavior, and the criterion.
• Select accommodations that match a documented need, and describe how each one will be delivered and recorded.
• Record progress on a six-week cycle using data a parent or an outside reviewer can follow.
• Complete a service log entry showing the service, the duration, the setting, and the student response.
• Find gaps, vague language, and contradictions in a student file, and revise them.
• Compare logged delivery against the minutes written in the IEP, and know what to do when the two diverge.
• Build a documentation routine and a campus follow-up plan for the next grading cycle.

Who it is for. SpEd teachers and case managers, general education teachers serving students with disabilities, campus principals and assistant principals, educational diagnosticians, reading specialists, counselors and SpEd coordinators. A leader track runs alongside the teacher track when a campus team attends together.

Timed agenda

1. 8:30Welcome, objectives, norms
2. 8:45Present levels: model, practice, peer review
3. 10:00Break
4. 10:10Measurable annual goals
5. 11:20Reflection and share
6. 11:35Lunch
7. 12:15Accommodations and delivery records
8. 1:10Progress monitoring on a six-week cycle
9. 2:10Break
10. 2:20Service logs and minutes
11. 3:15Campus follow-up plan and exit task
12. 3:30Finish

Breaks and lunch are excluded from creditable time. Online sessions run the same sequence in breakout rooms.

What you receive

Your certificate of completion

Every participant receives a certificate at the close of the session carrying each element the Texas Education Agency requires. The matching sign-in and sign-out record carries the same elements.

Records and quality

How we keep the record

Attendance records, session dates, session content and clock hours are kept for seven years after each session. For online sessions, the platform attendance report is matched against the sign-in record before any certificate is released.

Participants complete an evaluation at the close of every session, and a short follow-up survey six weeks later. Results are reviewed after each session, and the curriculum is revised where a group did not reach a stated objective. Revisions are logged with a date and a reason.

Questions

Registering and earning hours

To register for a session or ask about dates, email allie.wilson@iepassure.com. Webinar registration is on the webinar page.

Get in touch

Bring a session to your campus.

Tell us the track you want, roughly how many people, and whether you would rather meet in person or online. We will send dates. Districts, charters and education cooperatives are all welcome, and so are individual teachers signing up on their own.