August 2026

RESOURCES

Transitioning Between Schools

Navigate Life Texas provides step-by-step guidance for families navigating transitions between preschool, elementary, middle, and high school, as well as moves between school districts. Transitioning Between Schools includes tips for preparing your child both emotionally and practically, collaborating with schools to ease the process, and establishing routines that support success. It also offers advice on orientation visits, organizing school materials, meeting teachers, and encouraging social involvement through clubs and activities.

25 Tips for Effective ARD Meetings

A new school year means a new year of admission, review, and dismissal (ARD) committee meetings. Explore 25 Practical Tips for Effective ARD Meetings from Partners Resource Network to help make your upcoming meetings more productive.

Next Steps to Independence: Skills and Strategies

Help students track progress on key life skills with the Next Steps to Independence Skills and Strategies Checklist. This resource is designed to help educators, families, and students develop independence across four key areas: Choice & Decision Making, Goal Setting & Independence, Self-Management & Self-Awareness, and Self-Determination & Self-Advocacy.

UPCOMING EVENT

Working Together for Student Success: Understanding Early Resolution

Join us for an informative webinar on September 23, 2026, at 12:15 p.m. (CT) to learn how families and schools can resolve special education disagreements collaboratively. Discover how the Early Resolution process offers guided, solution-focused conversations to help families and school teams reach common ground. Register here.

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ABOUT SPEDTEX

The Special Education Information Center (SPEDTex) provides resources and interactive features for increasing family awareness of disabilities and special education processes, with the goal of improving partnerships between schools and families.