Managing Special Education

Aspen’s Special Education view is a comprehensive solution for creating and maintaining Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) and managing the special education process. Its tools help you work faster and more efficiently.

Administrators and special education managers can:

• Assign security roles for the Special Education view.
• Define special education preferences.
• Create and manage workflows.
• Maintain the necessary data and tables.
• Create and manage IEP forms and templates with the help of Aspen. This way, what you enter in the system matches your district's and state's requirements.
• Update IEPs including editing, amending, renewing, and re-evaluating.
• Calculate and report Special Education FTEs.
• Run reports.

Benefits

Your district is using Aspen's Special Education view to track IEPs and other information for your special education students which offers educators and administrators many benefits:

• Get real-time access to all student demographic data beyond just special education.
• Use Aspen’s interactive checklist (workflow a method of coordinating multi-step processes involving one or more users) to stay in compliance with state and federal regulations.  
• Reduce training time by entering data on pages that mimic your state-defined forms.
• Conduct global searches to find exactly which students are receiving accommodations and services.
• Use the system’s comprehensive reporting capabilities to make data-driven decisions accurately and efficiently.

Maximize your effectiveness

Aspen uses workflow technology to eliminate the paper trail, automate redundant tasks, and streamline administrative functions:

• Set up electronic workflows of your key special education processes including referrals, renewals, reevaluations, and amendments documented changes to an active Individualized Education Program (IEP).
• Use the system’s interactive checklist to stay up-to-date on the progress of each workflow item.
• Easily collect required information on the appropriate form at the appropriate time.
• Define compliance rules to stay on top of date-sensitive tasks.

Increase productivity

In Aspen, the screens look exactly like the paper forms teachers are used to completing by hand. No time is wasted re-entering data into the system.

Trust your data

Integrating special education and student information eliminates duplicate data. Administrators and teachers can be confident that what they’re seeing is current and accurate.

Manage smarter

Aspen gives you the tools to be more effective and efficient, such as district-wide search capabilities. Aspen can compile the statistics you need with just a few clicks.