FOR PARENTS AND TEACHERS
Clearer IEP goals. More real opportunities to participate.
See what meaningful inclusion can look like in the classroom.
The Inclusive & Neuroaffirming IEP Goal Bank gives parents and teachers language they can use now, to help students with extensive support needs participate and succeed alongside peers.
- K–12 reading, writing and math goal examples that are inclusive and neuroaffirming and connected to grade-level standards
- “What This Can Look Like in the Classroom” examples for instruction, group work and daily routines
- Individualized support ideas and a parent advocacy statement
- The Inclusive & Neuroaffirming Goal Assistant for individualizing goals
- Video walkthroughs, plus future additions and updates
You should not have to guess how your child belongs in the classroom after the IEP meeting ends.
You sit in an IEP meeting and hear the conversation focus on all the ways your child needs to change: more independent, more attentive, more compliant.
The conversation moves quickly. The paperwork gets longer. And you leave with the same question you brought in:
Where is my child in all of this?
Teachers feel the pressure from the other side of the table. There is a full classroom, a packed schedule and a child with extensive support needs whose goals do not connect clearly to the lesson in front of them.
The problem is the gap between a goal written in a document and a goal that makes sense in a real classroom.
Parents want to walk into an IEP meeting with language that makes room for their child's strengths and future. Teachers want to look at an upcoming lesson and see a way in.
What's included
Each part gives you something usable, so you spend less time translating a goal and more time planning for participation.
Inclusive and neuroaffirming goal examples
You get language that recognizes the child's strengths and supports meaningful participation, rather than reducing the child to a deficit.
Grade-level alignment
You can keep the child's goals connected to the academic content and classroom experiences their peers are working on.
Individualized support ideas
You have a starting point for thinking beyond a standard goal and identifying what access looks like for this particular child.
“What This Can Look Like in the Classroom” examples
You can picture how a goal fits into real instruction, group work and classroom routines. This makes it easier to move from the page to the lesson.
Parent advocacy statement
You have language to help express what you want the team to consider and how your child's opportunities should be understood.
Bonuses
- Digital Goal Assistant for individualizing goals, a practical way to adapt examples to a particular child
- Video walkthrough showing how to turn the resource into part of your planning or advocacy
- Future additions and updates as the goal bank grows
From the comments on my Instagram posts
“I've been absolutely loving these posts so much. Wish more educators and parents were seeing these. So helpful”
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“Thank you for all you're sharing! We had to make a lot of this up for our daughter because there just weren't any examples we could find. It's so great to see you making it available for the next student!”
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“Your suggestions are great! I co-teach, and I have a son with cerebral palsy in 4th grade! Thank you!”
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Built from 24 years in special education, and a personal understanding of what this process asks of families.
I have worked as a teacher, a school psychologist and a director of special education. I know how goals are written. I know how school teams make decisions. I also know how easily a child can disappear inside a process that was supposed to support them.
And now I am the parent of an autistic child, working on this side of things. That changes the work. I know the professional language, and I know what it feels like to sit with the questions that remain after the meeting ends.
I built this goal bank because parents and teachers deserve clearer language and a more realistic picture of what inclusion can look like. The child should be visible in the goal, in the planning and in the classroom.
Common questions
You do not need to have every answer before you begin. You need a clearer place to start.
Who is this for?
Is this only for teachers?
Is this just a set of generic goals?
What if I do not have much time?
I tried something like this before. Why would this be different?
Will it work for my child or my students?
What is the price?
Inclusive & Neuroaffirming IEP Goal Bank
$47
Includes future additions and updates
- K–12 reading, writing and math goal examples
- Classroom examples and parent advocacy statement
- Inclusive & Neuroaffirming Goal Assistant
- Video walkthroughs
PDF and Google Doc versions, plus future additions and updates as the goal bank grows.
You are already paying for this problem.
You pay with hours spent searching for examples that do not fit. With time spent rewriting goals that still feel unclear. With another IEP conversation prepared without the language you needed. Teachers pay with evenings spent creating every support from scratch after a full school day.
After you click, you will complete your purchase and get access to the goal bank. Begin with the video walkthrough, find goal examples that fit your situation, and use the included resources to prepare for planning or an IEP conversation.
Sample goals are provided as educational examples and should be individualized based on the student's strengths, needs, communication, access supports, and IEP team decision-making.
