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You are totally uniformed about the IDEA. It requires the least restricted environment in which a child should learn, but allows for an INDIVIDUAL lesson plan. [/quote]

While the IEP is supposed to be an individual plan, IDEA mandates that [b]the goals set for the child come from the general education curriculum[/b].   No exceptions.  Not Common Core.   IDEA&gt;

[quote][b]IDEA ’97 states that students with disabilities must be involved in the general curriculum[/b], and the law includes several requirements that help explain this involvement.

(1) ensuring that the student’s IEP goals address [b]how the student will be involved in the progress in the general curriculum[/b]

(2) specifying in the student’s IEP (individual educational plan) appropriate supplementary aids and services, accommodations, modifications, or supports that will help the student be involved in and [b]progress in the general curriculum to the maximum extent appropriate[/b]

(3) explaining in the student’s IEP why he or she will not participate with children without disabilities in the regular classroom

A student’s IEP must state how the student’s disability affects his or her involvement in and progress in the general curriculum and must contain [b]measureable annual goals (including benchmarks or short-term objectives) that address how the student will be involved in and progress in the general curriculum.[/b] In order to help align IEP goals with the general education curriculum also requires that the student’s regular education teacher as well as representatives from the district who is knowledgeable about the general curriculum be a member of the IEP team.

Decisions as to which supplementary aids and services, accommodations, modifications, or supports are appropriate for  a particular student are made on an individual basis by the IEP team.

[b]It is important that these decisions do not substantially lower curriculum standards and thus deny students access to the general education curriculum.[/b]

The approach should be to create, from the beginning, a curriculum with built-in supports for diverse learners.

It is not enough for students with disabilities to participate in the general curriculum. [b]The law also requires that the IEP address progress in the general curriculum.[/b] This involves three parts:

(1) measuring the student’s progress in reaching IEP goals

(2) including students with disabilities in State and district-wide assessments, with appropriate accommodations, where necessary

(3) developing State performance goals and indicators and providing reports on progress toward meeting these goals and indicators

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