SPECIAL 6 WEEK SERIES: How to Meaningfully Participate Throughout Your Child’s Academic Years

Open to residents of Adams, Arapahoe, Douglas & Elbert Counties and the City of Aurora.

How to Meaningfully Participate Throughout Your Child’s Academic Years, presented by Shelly Agostine Founder and Owner of Advocate 2 Educate, LLC, is a free six week series brought to you by PEAK Parent Center and Developmental Pathways. Attendees of this series will each receive a one-hour free consult from Shelly, to be scheduled directly with her at the end of the 6 weeks. Sessions take place every Tuesday from April 9th – May 14th  from 6:00 PM-7:00PM MST. Each Session will include specific take-aways and tools to help you utilize what you have learned and continue learning. These weekly sessions will not be recorded. You must attend at least 4/6 Sessions, and two of those must be sessions 1 and 5, in order to receive the one-hour free consult. Space is limited.

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(This webinar is full, please email Sherrell Bethel at sbethel@peakparent.org to be added to the waiting list.)

Below are the virtual session titles for each week:

Session 1
Tuesday, April 9th
The Intentional Structure Of The IEP and Its Importance: Walk a path through the IEP, learn the purpose of each section, understand the connections throughout the document.

Session 2
Tuesday, April 16th
Meaningful Participation: What it looks and feels like and how you get there.

Session 3
Tuesday, April 23rd
What Progress Monitoring Should Look Like & Why It’s Important: It’s not just numbers.

Session 4
Tuesday, April 30th
Solving Problems Effectively & Collaboratively: At the table first.

Session 5
Tuesday, May 7th
Applying What You Know At The Table: With knowledge and confidence.

Session 6
Tuesday, May 14th
Learning, Support & Community: Know what you need, how to get it and why it matters.

More about the presenter:

Shelly is the Founder and Owner of Advocate 2 Educate, LLC (A2E). As a Trained Non-Attorney Advocate and Educational Consultant for well over a decade, Shelly has dedicated herself and her business to helping families access the services and supports youth need in the academic and post-secondary setting. Shelly’s assistance with parents and guardians is focused on a teaching and modeling process. She works and trains school district administration and staff, community entities and families on building relationships and problem solving to address issues within the special education realm. Her skills in community relations, leadership and facilitation create an approach that supports a collaborative process. As a parent of adult children with disabilities, she has and continues to support them in their academic and life endeavors. She applies her knowledge and skill as a parent and Educational Consultant and Advocate to assist her clients in the education, home and community settings. Shelly began her advocacy by founding and facilitating in-person and online parent support groups. Her work-related passions outside of direct consultation and advocacy for families and students are sitting on the Colorado Special Education Advisory Committee, providing pro-bono services to one family each year, participating on local special education advisory committees and work-groups to advise and construct school district trainings and information for staff and parents, and building strategic planning committees for special education departments, so the departments can better services the students. Shelly spends a great deal of time with her family, volunteering in areas of interest, enjoying her hobbies of hiking, music, writing and the arts. Shelly is knowledgeable, dedicated, persevering, understanding, and competent; she brings these skills to the table everyday in her work in exceptional and gifted education and the 504 Process.