Independent Educational Consulting for School Districts

Professional consultation for district leaders and educational teams navigating IEP and behavioral development, communication breakdowns, conflict resolution, and complex student-centered concerns.

What We Offer

Communication Consultation

Consultation for district leaders and educational teams experiencing communication breakdowns with parents, unclear expectations, or difficulty moving a special education concern forward.

The focus is on understanding where the disconnect occurred, identifying the information or perspectives that may be missing, and helping the team members involved rebuild clarity and trust around the concern.

Consultation may also help teams examine how an existing process is being understood or experienced and identify practical ways to repair communication and strengthen collaboration.

Included

  • Initial consultation with authorized district leadership

  • Identification of the central concern and parties involved

  • Review of relevant communication and background information, Identification of communication gaps and areas of misalignment

  • Support clarifying how an existing process is being understood

  • Structured collaborative problem-solving Strategies for strengthening parent-school communication

  • Practical recommendations for communication and follow-through Follow-up consultation as needed

Special Education and Behavior Support Consultation

Michelle applies the IEP Development Wheel™ and Behavior Support Wheel™ to guide a structured examination of the educational information already available to the team. The process helps the district connect evaluation findings, present levels, goals, services, functional needs, behavioral data, and implementation considerations within the student’s educational plan.

Included:

  • Preliminary consultation with district leadership or the designated educational team

  • Meeting attendance

  • Review and interpretation of district-provided educational records, evaluations, and data

  • IEP development, review, and strengthening guidance (if applicable)

  • Review of present levels, goals, accommodations, modifications, supplementary aids, and services (if applicable)

  • Identification of gaps or disconnects within the educational information

  • FBA and BIP development, review, and strengthening

  • Integration of the FBA and BIP within the student’s educational program

  • IEP Development Wheel™ process facilitation

  • Behavior Support Wheel™ process facilitation

  • Educational recommendations for district consideration

  • Follow-up consultation with the district team

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What People Are Saying

“Michelle brought structure to a conversation our team had been struggling to move forward. She helped us identify where communication had broken down and kept the discussion focused on practical next steps.”

— District Administrator

“Her review helped our team see connections in the student’s educational information that we had been discussing separately. The process was organized, thoughtful, and gave us a much clearer direction.”

— Special Education Director

“The development process gave our team a structured way to examine the IEP as a whole. We left with clearer priorities and a better understanding of what still needed to be addressed.”

— Special Education Teacher

“Michelle knows how to ask difficult questions without making the room defensive. She was direct, professional, and able to help everyone understand where the disconnect was.”

— Building Administrator

“What stood out was Michelle’s ability to listen to multiple perspectives and identify the actual issue underneath the conversation. Her recommendations were practical and relevant to what our team was facing.”

— School Social Worker

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Consultation does not include legal advice, compliance review, policy development, district programming, or a determination of whether the district has met its legal obligations. All educational and compliance decisions remain with the district.