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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Sped coordinators are a waste of money since they don’t service kids and they don’t even write IEPs. It does not mean the school cares about sped. It means they are very bad at the legal aspect and/or they care about that part more than anything. [/quote]

I disagree, based on our experience. We've worked with a few SPED coordinators at different schools, and this role really does matter. In most cases, they were former SPED teachers who were promoted into leadership.

SPED coordinators schedule the IEP meetings and make sure due process is followed, including timelines - if your child has a lot of providers, aligning everyone's schedules, getting the goals and progress updates from everyone, entering everything correctly - it's a lot of logistics, and they do it for every kid with an IEP in the school. They take a lot of the admin stuff off of teachers' plates. A good SPED coordinator can also be the difference between an IEP meeting running efficiently or badly, and be a point of contact for existing and prospective families. They also do sourcing if any related service providers need to be hired to offer specific services a student needs that aren't already available at the school. At one of our schools, they also did coaching for some of the newer SPED teachers. [/quote]

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