Hello I ‘m Jeff Wyatt Baltimore City Public Schools as an education specialist well I ‘ve worked with a count of students across the city with preparing them to be more of an preach in their IEP of run we call it directing your own IEP we put together a PowerPoint presentation of our own when we go out and eat with the students and the staff at the schools sol that they understand what it is what it means to direct your own IEP a fortune of people have no concept of course what that means they come to the postpone thinking possibly a scholar is going to wholly take over, and you know disregard the teachers and the adults ‘ opinion master opinions, but then they learn and once we begin working with, and they learn cursorily that it ‘s more of a collaborative effort it ‘s where the student comes in, and you know be active extremity of the team as separate of sit as opposed to preferably sitting on the sideline and merely watching those things play out at their own I EP it ‘s it ‘s a situation where all the players are equal there is no hierarchy any longer where the student is made to feel like the last person on the totem pole everybody comes together as a team and that that whole team concept that that whole that feel of you know everyone has something to offer including and particularly the scholar is heavy Matt is one of the students that I work with in the get down of the school year and am at was credibly a good scholar to start with in that he took to it mighty away I had very, very poor attendance I think I had like fifty-seven absences totaled up one year and that was a very trouble for me because you know you ca n’t pass ca n’t get the grade if you do n’t come to school and well leading my own IEP kind of it allowed me to approach the goals that I needed to accomplish my manner and that it got accomplished over a period of time lento, but surely it went back improving because you know not barely having people talk around you but actually talking to them, you get to make plans and figure out okay how are you going to do this so possibly Matt you can tell is what was it like to get started with developing your own IP um well when I first gear got startle developing my own IEP I did n’t know a lot about what I was getting into with you and I found out that you know you ‘re going to be running your own IT buy EP from top to bottom and that was a little frighten at beginning you know because you find out you ‘re not stand up in all your principals and teachers and staff and tell them how you feel when you know you ‘re used to being the hushed kid that sits the board at your IEP meet and people do n’t talk to you, they talk at you or around you or and that ‘s not effective because only you know what works for you, and you can put that up on the board um I found out you know it all comes down to me, you know it ‘s not the people working around me, it ‘s me, and you know cipher ‘s going to bring you to school but you nobody ‘s going to stay in school with you and cipher ‘s going to do …
