Monitoring Progress

The IEP team must meet to review and revise your child’s IEP at least once each year. The IEP also includes monitoring components to make sure your child’s progress, program and placement continues to be appropriate. Specifically, each goal will include information about how progress will be measured and how and when you will be provided with progress updates. Parents of children with IEPs must be also provided formal progress reports that detail whether their child’s progress is sufficient to meet their annual goals by the end of the school along with their report cards.

As parents, we have a responsibility to monitor our child’s progress as well. This can include:

• reviewing your child’s schoolwork

• tracking progress towards annual goals through report cards and other documentation, as required in the IEP

• considering any new testing, or new information, available about your child

• sharing information at parent/teacher conferences

• maintaining home-school communication through communication logs, forms or telephone calls

If you have concerns about your child and their progress, you may request an IEP meeting to discuss them.