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Professional development your special education team can use the next day.
Practical, research-informed sessions on IEP quality, accommodations, transition, and responsible AI — from a BER National Presenter with 30 years in special education.
- 30 years in special education
- Taught in 5 states
- BER National Presenter
- Presenting at CEC 2027 Convention
- Presenting at the DCDT Conference, New Orleans, October 2026
Schools & districts
Professional development & consultation
Featured · BER National Presenter
AI for special educators
Session: "AI-Enhanced Accommodations for Students with Special Needs"
Professional development through BER (Bureau of Education and Research), CEUs available. Specifically designed for grades K–12 special education teachers, department heads, and administrators.
- Enhance accommodations and modifications for students with special needs using practical AI tools
- Powerful AI tools to enhance students' access to the general education curriculum
- Leverage generative AI for special needs students' personalized learning
- Avoid common pitfalls and address ethical concerns of using AI tools in special education
Topics offered
- Writing clear and effective IEP goals
- Accommodations vs. modifications
- Improving IEP quality and consistency
- Supporting general education teachers
- Ethical AI use in special education
- AI-Powered Accommodations
- Future-Ready IEPs: AI for transition planning
- Family engagement and IEP collaboration
Customized for
- Special education staff
- General education teams
- Administrators and leadership groups
- District-wide professional learning
Formats available
- Virtual PD (60–90 minutes)
- In-person workshops
- Half-day or full-day training
- Conference sessions or keynotes
“Jenny provided relevant information and I enjoyed all the AI material she showed us. Thank you for providing helpful tools for us.”
“Jenny is a wonderful instructor who provided so much information to use right in the moment in the classroom which is exactly what I was looking for.”
Quick-format sessions
Short, practical sessions that fit the school day. Choose an AI or IEP focus.
AI Power Hour
60 minutes — choose a topic
AI-Powered Accommodations: Enhancing Access and Achievement for Students with Special Needs Selected for CEC 2027
Practical ways to use AI to create and adapt accommodations that improve access to grade-level content, with privacy guardrails and professional judgment at the center.
AI for Everyday Special Education Tasks
Time-saving, privacy-safe ways to use AI for parent communication, progress notes, and lesson adaptations.
Future-Ready IEPs: AI for Transition Planning Presented at DCDT 2026
Practical, privacy-safe ways to use AI to strengthen transition assessments, postsecondary goals, and student and family involvement in transition planning.
Want a different focus? Power Hours can be built around your team's priorities.
$750 virtual · $950 in person
Lunch & Learn or Breakfast Briefing
30–45 minutes, AI or IEP focus
Lunch & Learn
A focused session that fits your lunch period. Teachers leave with one strategy and one tool they can use that week.
Breakfast Briefing
Coffee & AI or Coffee & IEPs — start the day with one practical idea before the first bell, with coffee and conversation.
$600 virtual · $850 in person
Same-day bundle: a breakfast session and a Lunch & Learn at your building for $1,500 — great for reaching two groups, like general and special education staff. Food is provided by the host school. In-person pricing includes travel within 30–60 minutes of Sioux Falls, SD. Further travel to be discussed.
Formats & investment
| Format | Investment |
|---|---|
| Virtual session (60–90 min) | Starting at $750 |
| Virtual half day (3 hrs) | Starting at $1,500 |
| In-person half day | Starting at $1,800 + travel |
| In-person full day | Starting at $2,500 + travel |
| Conference keynote or session | Contact for pricing |
Add-ons
- Customized using your district's de-identified IEPs or priorities: +$400–600
- 60-minute virtual follow-up coaching: $300
- 10% off a series of three or more sessions
Pricing depends on group size, customization, and travel. Multi-session and district-wide packages available.
Sample session
Writing Clear, Measurable IEP Goals
Format: Half-day (3 hours), in person or virtual
Participants will be able to:
- Connect present levels (PLAAFP) to goals so every goal has a clear baseline
- Write goals with a defined condition, behavior, criterion, and measurement method
- Revise real (de-identified) goals using a quality checklist
Includes: Slide deck, goal-writing checklist, and a 30-day follow-up email with resources.
Presenting at DCDT 2026
Future-Ready IEPs: Leveraging AI to Transform Transition Planning and to Empower Students, Families, and Educators
Formats: AI Power Hour (60 min) · Half day (3 hrs) · Full day (6 hrs, includes hands-on IEP work time)
Best for: Secondary special educators, transition coordinators, school counselors, and administrators
Participants will be able to:
- Use AI responsibly to organize age-appropriate transition assessment results into clear present levels
- Write measurable postsecondary goals for education or training, employment, and, where appropriate, independent living
- Connect transition services and course of study to each student's postsecondary goals
- Build student and family involvement into transition planning, including tools that help students lead parts of their own IEP meeting
- Protect student privacy when using AI tools
Built around the Indicator 13 transition requirements, so teams strengthen both student outcomes and compliance.
Includes: Slide deck, transition planning checklist, the free Student Interview, AI prompt starters with privacy guardrails, and a 30-day follow-up email.
Selected for CEC 2027
AI-Powered Accommodations: Enhancing Access and Achievement for Students with Special Needs
Formats: AI Power Hour (60 min) · Half day (3 hrs) · Full day (6 hrs, includes hands-on work with your own de-identified materials)
Best for: Special educators, general educators, instructional coaches, paraprofessionals, and administrators
Participants will be able to:
- Distinguish accommodations from modifications and match accommodations to the needs described in a student's present levels
- Use AI to quickly adapt classroom materials (adjusting reading level, creating graphic organizers, adding visual supports, chunking assignments) while keeping grade-level expectations
- Evaluate AI-generated supports for accuracy, appropriateness, and bias before using them with students
- Make accommodations easier for general education teachers to implement consistently, every day
- Protect student privacy when using AI tools
Supports consistent implementation of IEP accommodations across classrooms, an area districts often find difficult to monitor.
Includes: Slide deck, accommodations vs. modifications quick guide, AI prompt starters with privacy guardrails, and a 30-day follow-up email.
Working with districts
- Purchase orders accepted: Yes
- W-9 available on request
- Invoicing: Net 30
- Virtual sessions available nationwide; in-person travel from Sioux Falls, SD
- Certificates of attendance provided. Your district determines credit hours under its PD requirements.
Let's plan a session for your team.
A free 30-minute call to talk through your team's needs, timeline, and budget.
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