He Wasn’t Failing the Goal. The Goal Was Failing Him. A young boy sits in a school hallway covering his ears. Text reads: 'On paper, the goal was met. In real life, Johnny was falling apart.'

You celebrated a win on paper… then watched it fall apart in real life.

The team said sitting for 20 minutes was progress. It went in the notes. Everyone left the IEP meeting hopeful—because it really did seem like a win.

No one saw what happened next—the shutdown, the refusal to come back to class the next day.

The problem isn’t the child. And it’s not the goal. It’s what we didn’t plan for.

This doesn’t happen because people aren’t trying. It happens because the plan doesn’t include what actually makes goals work.

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  • Clear communication and shared expectations
  • Alignment across home and school
  • Realistic goals that everyone understands
  • A roadmap to make it all actionable
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  • A clear overview of IDEA, timelines, and key procedures that impact IEP development
  • Templates, questions, and strategies to write goals that actually get implemented
  • Advocacy tools to help you collaborate with confidence (not confusion)
  • Built-in clarity for teams, so no one’s left guessing what comes next
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