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Blogs, videos and guides from the Blume team: practical IEP guidance, platform walkthroughs, and references you can keep.
I recently talked with Kara Baskin of The Boston Globe about something I’ve spent more than 45 years on: how we write IEPs that actually help kids. A good IEP isn’t written by one person. A team builds it, it starts with real data, and everyone at the table has to agree on who the student is.
Blume gives special education teams one connected platform so they spend less time on paperwork and more time teaching. Notebook brings goal creation and progress monitoring together. Academy adds on-demand, evidence-based professional learning that earns MOEs. For district leaders, it means less paperwork, consistency across classrooms, and confidence in compliance.
This video explores why IEP goals should be driven by individual student needs rather than curriculum standards, ensuring truly individualized education that meets each learner where they are.
This lesson explores the cultural realities and systemic factors that shape students' experiences in school. It examines how identity, representation, trauma, immigration, and current events influence learning, belonging, and classroom dynamics.
There has to be a better way. This is the belief that drives Blume every day. Blume was founded on the idea that every student deserves an equitable and individualized education. This idea wasn't established in a boardroom but in the realities of the classroom.
I didn't learn my most important lessons about teaching from a textbook, a professional development workshop, or even from years of planning and preparing the "perfect" lesson. I learned them from a student.
When parents disagree with a district's special education decisions, the threat of a Bureau of Special Education Appeals (BSEA) hearing looms large. One might think, "It's just a hearing: how expensive can it be?" The reality is far more complex and costly than most educators realize.
Understanding the true financial impact of BSEA hearings isn't just about budgeting: it's about making informed decisions that protect a district's resources while ensuring students receive appropriate services. This comprehensive guide breaks down the direct costs, hidden expenses, and long-term impact of BSEA hearings, while providing practical strategies for prevention through the Blume Method.
The Blume Method bridges the gap between what students need to thrive, the realistic bandwidth of today's educators, and the evolving knowledge base of the field, within a single, on-demand platform designed for practical use in real classrooms.
This PDF offers practical strategies to shorten IEP meetings by improving preparation, clarifying roles, and using structured processes, without sacrificing meaningful family participation or data-driven decision-making. It recommends pre-meeting planning (updated data, draft goals, accommodations, and parent input), assigning meeting roles (facilitator, timekeeper, note-taker, data owners, parent liaison), and following a predictable agenda to keep discussion focused. It also encourages using visuals instead of long verbal explanations, limiting round-robin sharing, addressing disagreements ahead of time, and closing with clear action steps and efficiency norms.
Learn more about how The Blume Method's structured, and data-driven approach helps democratize access to high-quality individualized education for all students, while supporting educators with clarity and consistency.
When teams share a clear vision for a student, better decisions follow. This video highlights the importance of aligned team response, where data, collaboration, and shared understanding come together to support truly individualized education.
In this guide, we explain that special education teams face persistent, system-level gaps, driven by tighter timelines, heightened accountability, and fewer resources, that undermine compliance, staff sustainability, and student outcomes. We highlight recurring pain points, including inconsistent data collection, limited real-time leadership insights, fragmented progress monitoring, onboarding challenges due to staff turnover, documentation delays, and uneven IEP quality. Ultimately, the guide shows that these issues share a common root cause: the lack of an integrated, defensible system for managing special education work.
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