{"id":27385,"date":"2025-05-13T12:25:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T16:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=27385"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:48:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:48:31","slug":"mi-via-zoom-2","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/event\/mi-via-zoom-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MI via ZOOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"MI%20via%20ZOOM\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><strong>SOLD OUT!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>October 9 and October 29, 2025<\/strong> &#8211; Wrightslaw Special Education Law and Advocacy Series with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/speak\/p2\/pete.bio.htm\">Pete Wright, Esq<\/a>., and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/speak\/howey\/bio.htm\">Pat Howey<\/a> via ZOOM.<\/p>\n<p>Wrightslaw Special Education Law and Advocacy Conference, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/speak\/programs.htm\">Wrightslaw training program<\/a> is being sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mipaac.org\/\">Michigan Parent, Advocate and Attorney Coalition (MiPAAC).<\/a> One registration fee. Two full-day training sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Wrightslaw programs are designed to meet the needs of parents, educators, health care providers, advocates and attorneys who represent children with disabilities regarding special education. <strong>The program is not disability specific<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Registration includes access to both Workshop 1 and Workshop 2. <strong>Individual workshop registration is not available.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Workshop 1 &#8211; Thursday, October 9, 2025 &#8211; <\/strong>Special Education Law and Advocacy Training<\/p>\n<p>9:00-10:30 &#8211;\u00a0 IDEA History, Book Overview, US Supreme Ct Cases<br \/>\nSection 1400 Findings, Purpose<br \/>\nSection 1401 Definitions: Disability, Special Education, Related Services, LD, etc.<\/p>\n<p>10:30-10:45\u00a0 &#8211; Break<\/p>\n<p>10:45-12:00 &#8211; Section 1412 Extended School Year, Child Find, Least Restrictive, Private Placements<br \/>\nUnderstanding Tests and Measurements, and the Bell Curve, Standard Scores, Scale Scores, % ranks, Grade Equivalent, Age Equivalent, Determining progress v. regression using Bar Graphs<\/p>\n<p>12:00-1:00\u00a0 &#8211; Lunch<\/p>\n<p>1:00-2:30 &#8211; Section 1414 Evaluations and IEPs<br \/>\nSection 1415 Due Process, Rules of Procedure, Discipline<br \/>\nSection 504, ADA, FERPA, ESSA<br \/>\nEpisodic Conditions, Allergies, Epilepsy, etc.<br \/>\nRecent Cases + OCR, USDOJ<\/p>\n<p>The Parent as the Special Ed Manager and Expert<\/p>\n<p>Developing the Master Plan<br \/>\nKnowing the Rules of the Game<br \/>\nRecognizing and Avoiding the Fatal Obstacles<br \/>\nHow to Deal with Conflict, a Healthy and Normal event<\/p>\n<p>2:30-2:45\u00a0 &#8211; Break<\/p>\n<p>2:45-4:00 &#8211; Crisis, Emergency, Help<br \/>\nOrganization of the Child\u2019s File<br \/>\nSMART IEPs<br \/>\nTactics and Strategies<br \/>\nRule of Adverse Assumptions<br \/>\nPrivate Evaluations<br \/>\nPaper Trails<br \/>\nThe Letter to the Stranger<br \/>\n5 Ws + H + E<br \/>\nPreparation for Meetings<br \/>\nMeeting Strategies<\/p>\n<p>4:00-4:30\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 Questions and Answers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Workshop 2 &#8211; Wednesday, October 29, 2025 &#8211; From Emotions to Advocacy Training<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>9:00 &#8211; 10:30 &#8211; Section 1: Getting Started<br \/>\nCreating the Advocate&#8217;s IEP, the Master Plan<br \/>\nTaming the Paper Trail<br \/>\nGoals and Strategies for the Advocate<br \/>\nThe Parent as Project Manager<br \/>\nAdvocacy 101: Learning the Rules of the Game<\/p>\n<p>10:30 &#8211; 10:45 &#8211; Break<\/p>\n<p>10:45 &#8211; 12:00 &#8211; Obstacles to Success, Resolving Parent\/School<br \/>\nConflicts, Emergency, Crisis, Help<br \/>\nEvaluations and Your Child&#8217;s Disability<br \/>\nTests and Measurements 101<\/p>\n<p>12:00 &#8211; 1:00 Lunch<\/p>\n<p>1:00 &#8211; 2:30 &#8211; The Bell Curve<br \/>\nCharting Test Scores<br \/>\nSmart IEPs<br \/>\nOverview of IDEA &#8211; Findings, Purposes and Definitions<br \/>\nSection 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973<br \/>\nESSA<\/p>\n<p>2:30 &#8211; 2:45 &#8211; Break<\/p>\n<p>2:45 &#8211; 4:00 &#8211; Rule of Adverse Assumptions<br \/>\nTaming the Paper Trail &#8211; Documenting and Writing Letters and using the &#8220;Letter to a Stranger&#8221; Strategy<br \/>\nIEP Meeting Strategies and Common Problems<br \/>\nPutting it all together<\/p>\n<p>4:00 &#8211; 4:30\u00a0 &#8211; Questions and Answers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration Fees &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* Early Bird Individual Registration Fee $135 &#8211; <strong>Early Bird Ends August 29, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regular Individual Registration Fee $165<\/p>\n<p>* Early Bird registrants will receive FREE adobe.pdf download of Wrightslaw: Special Education Legal Developments and Cases 2017, which includes all of the 2017 U. S. Court of Appeals special education cases and the two 2017 U. S. Supreme Court cases, Fry and Endrew F.<\/p>\n<p>Conference fee includes a Wrightslaw highlighter pen, three Wrightslaw books &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/bks\/selaw3\/selaw3.htm\">Wrightslaw: Special Education Law, 3rd Edition<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/bks\/feta2\/feta2.htm\">Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy, 2nd Edition<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/bks\/aaiep\/index.htm\">Wrightslaw: All About IEPs<\/a> provided the morning of the conference. Wrightslaw will provide the three books to each attendee in the adobe.pdf format as well. The three print and pdf books retail for $113.60.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Register Online:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mipaac.org\/workshop\/\">Click here to register online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flyer:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/speak\/reg\/25.10.mi.flyer.pdf\">Download and share<\/a> the training flyer.<\/p>\n<p>For all other details, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/speak\/25.10.mi.htm\">please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOLD OUT! October 9 and October 29, 2025 &#8211; Wrightslaw Special Education Law and Advocacy Series with Pete Wright, Esq., and Pat Howey via ZOOM. 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