Transformational Leadership in Special Education: Leading the IEP Team

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Using the principles of transformational leadership, IEP teams become effective tools to ensure student success and achievements. There is a difference of teams that are simply chaired and those that are lead. Teams with transformational leaders promote the best efforts of all participants including parents and students to effectively deliver special education services that meet real student outcomes. Using a step-by-step approach to developing the IEP, improving team function and producing Great IEPs, schools and districts can demonstrate special education effectiveness through success and achievement of students.

Transformational Leadership provides the reader with a background of meaningful and purposeful leadership, and the building blocks of the learning organization. These concepts are applied to the values and the operation of the IEP team. Teams following these principals improve service delivery by full participation of all team members. Transformational leadership can improve student advancement, school improve, and district accountability.

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This is a book that is a must read for all administrators, those in special education or in charge of schools and districts. The practical and informative direction provided in Transformational Leadership will lead schools to be more effective and efficient while assuring a successful future for all students. -- John Burnett, superintendent, Onalaska Public Schools, Onalaska, WI
Dr. Lentz integrates his research on leadership with his extensive experiences as an educator, administrator and parent of a child with a disability in this important book on how to make the IEP process more meaningful to all stakeholders. Dr. Lentz provides specific suggestions on how to move a school's current approach to IEPs towards one that is more child centered and in line with the spirit of the law. Regardless of years of experience, most school psychologists and other leaders in the IEP process will find this book helpful in honestly evaluating and reinventing their own approaches. -- Betty DeBoer, Associate Professor, School Psychology Program, University of Wisconsin- La Crosse
Providing a positive education pathway for students with disabilities is a difficult journey for schools, teachers, and students. Transformational Leadership provides school administrators and teaching staff with insightful and practical information on how to create IEP's for students with disabilities which will increase the success of their students. Consequently, the Parents view of the schools have an opportunity to transformed from adversary to ally. -- John J. Sachs, University of South Alabama, Department of Leadership and Teacher Education

Author Bio

Kirby Lentz has over forty years experience working with children with disabilities and leading multitudes of IEP team meetings. He has served as a school board president, numerous statewide committees and most importantly has been the parent at IEP team meetings.