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Indiana IEP and 504 Plan Legal Workshop

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Credit Status Total
Indiana CLE Approved 6 Total
New Jersey CLE Approved 7.2 Total
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5 hours 47 minutes
Philip Stern
Alexandra Curlin
With Philip E. Stern from Taylor Law Group, LLC + 1 other
Recorded October 28, 2025
Product ID 100838

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Overview

Strengthen Your School's IEP and 504 Plan Process and Protect Student Rights

IEPs and 504 plans are essential tools to ensure positive learning outcomes for many students. They also have the potential to cause legal issues for schools if they aren't properly planned and carried out. Join our experienced faculty for this comprehensive overview of legal liabilities in IEPs and 504 plans. Take away valuable information you can use to spot potential issues in your school's IEP and 504 plan process. Register today!

  • Ensure students get the tools they need to succeed by properly determining if they are eligible for an IEP or a 504 plan.
  • Implement legally appropriate 504 plans that ensure a level playing field for eligible students.
  • Conduct IEP meetings that include all the necessary players and know what to do if someone is unable to attend.
  • Handle situations where an IEP just isn't working, and modifications are immediately needed.
  • Create behavioral intervention plans (BIPs) that consider the information contained in functional behavior assessments (FBAs).
  • Protect the legal rights of students with IEPs and 504 plans in situations where discipline codes are broken.

Abbreviated Agenda

  1. IDEA or Section 504? Determining Eligibility Under Both Laws
  2. Developing and Implementing 504 Plans: Ensuring a Level Playing Field
  3. Developing and Implementing 504 Plans: Ensuring a Level Playing Field (Continued)
  4. The IEP Development Process: Handling Difficult Issues
  5. Key Considerations for Implementing IEPs
  6. Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBAs) and Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs): Ensuring Best Practices
  7. Discipline and Expulsion Essentials Under IDEA and Section 504

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Credit Status Total
Indiana CLE Approved 6 Total
New Jersey CLE Approved 7.2 Total
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Agenda

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  1. IDEA or Section 504? Determining Eligibility Under Both Laws

    1. Section 504
      1. What Is a Disability Under Section 504?
      2. Major Life Activities: What Do They Encompass?
      3. Substantial Limitations: What Is the Bar?
      4. Impairment Determinations: What Can and Can't Be Considered?
    2. The IDEA
      1. Eligibility Categories
      2. ADHD and Other Difficult-to-Place Disabilities
      3. Required Need for Specially Designed Instruction
      4. Best Practices for Determining Eligibility
      5. IDEA-Eligible Students With Additional Medical Needs
    3. Handling Disputes With Parents Over Eligibility

  2. Developing and Implementing 504 Plans: Ensuring a Level Playing Field

    1. Eligibility: What Should Be Considered
    2. What Accommodations Should and Should Not Do
    3. 504 Accommodations vs. Specially Designed Instruction (and Why It Matters)
    4. Distribution of 504 Plans
    5. Avoiding Modifications
    6. Reviews and Re-Evaluations
    7. 504 Plan Red Flags to Avoid

  3. Developing and Implementing 504 Plans: Ensuring a Level Playing Field (Continued)

  4. The IEP Development Process: Handling Difficult Issues

    1. IDEA Evaluation Report Essentials
    2. The IEP Meeting: What If Parents Refuse to Come?
    3. Third-Party Participation at IEP Meetings: Outside Agencies, Invited Guests, etc.
    4. Avoiding Predetermination on IEPs
    5. Parent Recording of IEP Meetings: Can Schools Prohibit It?
    6. Ensuring the IEP Team Has All Necessary Members
    7. Creating Measurable IEP Goals and Progress Requirements
    8. Creating a Prudent Paper Trail

  5. Key Considerations for Implementing IEPs

    1. Who Should Receive a Copy? What Form Should It Be?
    2. Teacher Training: Necessary Requirements to Ensure Successful Implementation
    3. Progress Monitoring, Documentation, and Reporting
    4. What to Do When IEPs Aren't Working
    5. Mid-Year Revisions
      1. Who Can Make Them?
      2. When Should They Be Made?

  6. Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBAs) and Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs): Ensuring Best Practices

    1. What IDEA Says About FBAs and BIPs
    2. Who Should Be Involved in the Process?
    3. Meeting Key Evaluation Requirements
    4. How to Use the Information
    5. BIPs and Their Relation to IEPs
    6. Creating BIPs That Are Useful for Staff
    7. Crisis Components and BIPs
    8. Behavior Plans and Section 504
    9. Handling Disagreements With Parents

  7. Discipline and Expulsion Essentials Under IDEA and Section 504

    1. Providing Services During Disciplinary Removal
    2. How Manifestation Determination Reviews Apply
    3. Protections for Children Not Yet Eligible for Special Education and Related Services
    4. Changes in Placement
      1. Suspensions and the Ten-Day Rule
      2. Legal Rules Governing Removal or Expulsion
      3. Interim Alternative Educational Settings
    5. Other Available Remedies
    6. Multiple Suspensions and Denial of Free Appropriate Public Education

Who Should Attend

This basic-to-intermediate level program on creating legally compliant IEPs and 504 plans is for school principals and vice principals, school superintendents and assistant superintendents, school psychologists, school counselors, special education teachers, general education teachers, attorneys and paralegals.

Speakers

Philip E Stern
Philip E.
Stern
Taylor Law Group, LLC
Alexandra M Curlin
Alexandra M.
Curlin
Curlin & Clay Law Association of Attorneys
Speaker bio
Philip E Stern

Philip E. Stern

Taylor Law Group, LLC
Philip Stern

supports the school law, and employment and labor practice groups for DiFrancesco Bateman Kunzman Davis Lehrer & Flaum, P.C. He represents public and private school districts, colleges, and universities in collective bargaining, special education, employment litigation, and student and staff disciplinary issues. Mr. Stern has negotiated collective bargaining agreements on behalf of educational institutions. He has litigated full jury trials and administrative hearings in all New Jersey judicial and administrative forums; from the New Jersey Supreme Court, to the New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission, to the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law. Mr. Stern earned his B.A. degree from Wesleyan University, his M.A. degree in educational administration from Montclair State College and his J.D. degree from New York Law School.

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Alexandra M Curlin

Alexandra M. Curlin

Curlin & Clay Law Association of Attorneys
Alexandra Curlin

is an attorney with Curlin & Clay Law, An Association of Attorneys in Indianapolis. A distinguished educator and accomplished attorney, she uses her extensive experience throughout the state of Indiana to provide clients with a multi-faceted approach to the issues they present. In an effort to help promote students' rights to quality education while, in turn, effectively addressing education issues in the state of Indiana, Ms. Curlin serves a wide range of populations that includes, but is not limited to, parents, schools and agencies serving students. Prior to her transition to private practice, she was a teacher in the metropolitan Indianapolis area where she taught kindergarten through fourth grade. Ms. Curlin also served as a reading specialist. Additionally, she serves as an expulsion hearing officer for current clients and previously served as the Assistant Director of Due Process for the Special Education Department of the Indiana Department of Education. Ms. Curlin earned her B.S. degree from Indiana University, with minors in reading and early childhood education; and her J.D. degree from Indiana University School of Law at Indianapolis where she was a member of the Order of Barristers. Additionally, she is a member of the Indiana State and Indianapolis bar associations. Ms. Curlin is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Northern and Southern districts of Indiana.

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