ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes meeting strategies for working with parents but also with staff. It aims to recommend tips for reducing due process hearings. The chapter also aims to help provide specific tips and strategies that special education administrators can use on a daily basis. The one thing causing problems for a lot of teachers, both general and special education, is negative and/or disruptive behavior. School districts have a lot of academic core curriculum, interventions, and performance data, but often have very little behavioral curriculum, interventions, and performance data. Most students with disabilities spend most of their time in the general education classroom and many parents perceive their child’s primary teacher as the general education teacher, and the special education teacher as one that helps support the student part of the time. Disagreement over where a student is to receive their special education service is often an area where disputes occur.
