Less Paperwork, More Teaching

A special-education teacher's guide to AI-assisted IEPs — get your evenings back without cutting corners.

What's inside — 11 chapters

• Progress monitoring that holds up, and how to read a mastery criterion
• Collecting data without losing your evenings — and keeping it honest
• Graphing growth so a stall is impossible to miss
• Writing progress reports fast — data to narrative
• Differentiating assignments to a student's IEP goals
• Behavior: ABC data, finding the function, and building a BIP
• Transition planning — including for students with no work history
• Using AI responsibly in special education — de-identification, what never to paste into a chatbot, keeping your judgment where it belongs
• Plus an appendix of templates

Pairs with the Toolkit

This guide explains the how; the Progress & Behavior Toolkit gives you the editable forms for everything in these pages. And it's the companion to the apps it mentions — IEP Progress and ABC Tracker — if you ever want to stop doing it by hand.