by admin | Apr 4, 2026 | featured, meeting, news, resource
“What if we stopped asking, ‘Why won’t this kid behave?’ and started asking, ‘What is this kid trying to tell us?’” This question sits at the heart of the work of Ross Greene and his Collaborative and Proactive Solutions (CPS) model. It represents a fundamental shift...
by admin | May 13, 2025 | advocacy, featured, news
Local PTA leader and SPS parent Kaitlin Murdock has been crunching the district’s own numbers, and what she found is alarming. In the letter below, which she recently sent to the Seattle School Board, Kaitlin lays out how years of flawed (and at times manipulated)...
by admin | Apr 18, 2025 | featured, news
Jana Parker, president of the Seattle Special Education PTSA, is quoted in this article, which explores the possibility that Washington will life its 16% funding cap on Special Education. Read more
by admin | Mar 21, 2025 | featured, news
Specialized Parent Teacher Student Associations (PTAs or PTSAs) are groups that are designed to address the specific needs of particular student communities. If you have a child with disabilities, joining a PTA focused on special education might just be the perfect...
by admin | Feb 11, 2025 | advocacy, featured, news
Did you know that millions of families across the US have the right to record their IEP meetings? Not so in Washington, where the all-party consent-to-record requirement has kept recording IEP (individualized education plan) meetings from becoming common practice....
by admin | Jul 21, 2024 | advocacy, featured, news
School districts face many challenges when hiring Special Education teachers and paraeducators. Washington state auditors recently investigated these challenges and described actionable solutions. The strategies in their report focus on finding and keeping qualified...
