Parent Record Keeping
Record keeping helps you keep track of your student’s educational progress and changing educational needs, your communications with the school district, and the many different documents related to your student’s growth and development through the school years. Developing an organizational system for your student’s records
is an effective way to prepare for Individualized Education Program (IEP) team meetings.
While you can find all kinds of recommendations online for how to keep your records, it can be as simple as keeping them in a 3-ring binder with tabs to organize:
- Current IEP information
- Historical IEP documents
- Assessment reports
- Documentation of your communications with school personnel
- Behavior logs/records
- Work samples
- Reference materials, such as the Procedural Safeguards
- Questions that come to your mind that you want to ensure to ask at an upcoming meeting