Facilitated IEP

Essential Facilitation Skills for IEP Meetings (FIEP) for three days or for three days including a legal component

FIEP provides a structure and process for carrying out IEP meetings. Benefits of the FIEP training include:



  • Keeps IEP team members focused on the student’s needs and IEP meetings on target by teaching meeting process skills to special education staff, administrators and other IEP team members

  • Fosters more positive school and parent relationships by imparting conflict-resolution skills

  • Establishes collaborative meeting environments where all team members are provided the opportunity to share ideas and concerns in a respectful manner

  • Enriches IEP meetings by emphasizing dialogue instead of forms, while still maintaining a compliant process

  • Promotes immediate use of new IEP facilitation skills once back at work, thanks to extensive role-playing during training

  • Positively impacts organizational initiatives beyond the IEP process by teaching readily transferable problem-solving, meeting and other person-to-person skills

  • More than pays for itself through reduced litigation incidents and costs of time and effort of repeated IEP meetings

Ultimately, by using the FIEP process schools see fewer repeated IEP meetings, completion of meetings in less time, more meetings that lead to higher level of individual involvement and responsibility, and fewer mediations, resolutions, and due process hearings. The focus of the IEP meetings shift to meeting the child’s needs and making progress on state standards - all through a less stressful process. Adding a legal component involves a presentation by a nationally renowned attorney who will focus on legal compliance, the relationship to implementation of the FIEP process, and ramifications of not correctly conducting an IEP meeting.

Facilitated IEP Additional Training Options



  • Enhanced Interpersonal Skills Training - (2 days)

  • FIEP Overview - (1 day)

  • FIEP Coaching - (1 day)

Facilitated IEP Conflict Resolution Video - Discover the transformative change special educators are experiencing through the Facilitated IEP process. This brief video models the shift of a contentious IEP meeting, to one focused on the child’s individual needs and educational successes – all through a less stressful process.