The coronavirus pandemic continues to significantly impact students with disabilities as they receive instruction through a variety of learning models: fully in-person, fully remote and a hybrid of both. How do IEP teams develop students' individualized plans for and implement them within these various models? Attorney Abby Busler will give you legal insights and practical advice to do that and more.

You'll get up to date on the impact of COVID-19 on IEP considerations as well as the most recent federal guidance addressing IEPs in virtual and hybrid settings. You'll also learn about the latest case law interpreting IEP team decisions during the pandemic — teaching you valuable lessons to inform your district's future decision-making. What's more, you'll explore the role of contingency plans by hearing about one district's quick return to full-time distance learning due to an increase in COVID-19 cases.

Gain best practices to:

• Adhere to IDEA regulations for IEP development and implementation during the pandemic
• Adapt to the new scope of developing IEPs during virtual or hybrid instruction
• Focus on proactive processes to address student IEPs when learning environments change
• Implement a contingency learning plan in case school reverts to virtual learning and IEPs must be modified
• And more

With so many students with disabilities learning remotely today, one major concern schools and parents share is whether students are making meaningful progress in virtual and hybrid settings. But most progress monitoring tools were not created with distance learning in mind.

Attorney Katherine Beenken will help you bridge this gap, as she provides guidance to build on existing structures plus new strategies you can use to measure student progress in these settings. Plus, you'll learn to record progress monitoring, including where to note in the IEP changes from the brick-and-mortar setting and how that may impact progress monitoring and delivery of specially designed instruction.

You'll be better positioned to meet your district's FAPE obligations — and prepared for ways the educational landscape may be permanently shaped by COVID-19 — by gaining strategies to:

• Share progress monitoring data with parents
• Weigh student health and education needs when considering an appropriate educational setting
• Accurately monitor progress of goal areas when in-person instruction and monitoring are not possible
• Identify and respond to factors impacting access to instruction, including where virtual learning is not possible for a student
• Respond when a lack of progress toward a student's annual goals indicates an inappropriate placement
• And more