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Lessons from the Hearing Room: What Due Process Cases Teach Us About Evaluation Practices

Date: Dec 3, 2025

Time: 12:00 - 1:00 CST

Trainers: Tammy L. Stephens, Ph.D., & Georgene Moon, M.Ed.

Description: Due process hearings can be a powerful source of insight into what strengthens—or weakens—an educational evaluation. In this eye-opening session, participants will examine real due process cases where evaluation procedures, documentation, or interpretation were central to the outcome. The webinar will highlight common themes and missteps cited in hearings, including inadequate data integration, lack of exclusionary factor analysis, failure to consider language or cultural background, and vague or unsupported conclusions. Participants will reflect on how these issues could have been prevented and walk away with concrete strategies to improve the defensibility, clarity, and quality of their own evaluations. This session is ideal for evaluators who want to stay legally aligned, ethically grounded, and professionally confident in their assessment practices.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
1. Identify common evaluation errors and omissions that have been cited in recent due process hearings.
2. Understand how legal language and documentation are interpreted in special education disputes.
3. Apply strategies to strengthen data analysis, interpretation, and reporting practices in alignment with IDEA and state standards.
4. Reflect on the ethical responsibilities of evaluators in high-stakes decision making.
5. Increase defensibility and collaboration by integrating best practices highlighted in due process outcomes.

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C-SEP 2.0: Is it Core-Selective and Selective-Core?

Recorded: April 3, 2025

Contemporary updates to standardized tests and recent modifications to assessment policy requires C-SEP to adjust its practices towards the use of norm-referenced tests. All C-SEP users should watch this complimentary webinar where Dr. Stephens and Dr. Schultz discuss updates to policy and testing practices, which in turn have a minor but fundamental impact on the C-SEP methodology. Be certain to watch this recording to update your adherence to C-SEP and to stay compliant.

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Resources: C-SEP 2.0 Handout