Despite the best efforts of educators, achieving success in special education can often feel elusive. Systemic challenges—rooted in gaps in communication and compliance—can undermine even the most well-intentioned improvement. This interactive session will explore how state, district, and local personnel can use strategic questioning to identify and address the root causes of these barriers, with a particular focus on enhancing communication and fostering adaptive skills across all levels of the system. By approaching dispute resolution through a strategic lens, participants will uncover the complex, the complicated, and the simple barriers that hinder progress and discover actionable solutions to create more effective, sustainable systems. Shifting from a "hero" model to a collaborative, team-based approach, attendees will gain tools to not only ask the "right" question and develop concrete actions to improve collaboration, compliance, and communication.
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