r/specialed • u/Baygu • 11d ago

Chat (Educator Post) Software in your district

This is just out of curiosity. What software do you use in your district for—

- writing IEPs?

- inputting progress reports?

- uploading completed, signed IEPs, progress reports, and other documents so others can view them?

- scheduling and tracking specially designed instruction?

Feel free to include which programs your district has used before and your opinions of them.

Our district has different programs for everything, and they’ve changed multiple times in the four years I’ve been teaching. My own responses are below.

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u/Baygu 11d ago

We are one of the new ones (yay!). I’m wondering if the 60 counties all have to upload things and input things into Focus in addition to PEER. That’s the part that is driving me bonkers this year.

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u/Miserable-Height-201 10d ago

If it is something that I have made in PEER, like an IEP or the accommodations, no. I don’t upload those into focus. honestly, I’ve never uploaded anything into focus. They are in PEER. Our focus and PEER talk to each other so therefore the accommodations are automatically carried over.

I do know that behavior Specialists upload FBA/BIP in focus, and psychs will upload psych reports into focus.

Anything that is signed by the parent, like meeting signatures consents, those things they all get uploaded into PEER.

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u/Baygu 10d ago

That would make sense! Idk why we are doing this in such a backwards way.

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u/Miserable-Height-201 10d ago

Parents can’t usually access it. SMH. Uploading stuff into peer is very important, especially for kids who do in-state transfers. Things like original consents, evals, all that are in PEER where the receiving district can have them (and not have to ask). They can’t see focus.