Sapphire Special Education Software/IEP Writer is an advanced web-based special education software solution specifically designed for special education programs. Developed under the guidance of special education teachers and administrators, the product is comprised of several modules: referral, eligibility, IEP processing, 504 documentation, caseload management, GIEP, gifted written reports, positive behavior support plans, functional behavior assessments, manifestation determination, communication plans, and summary of academic achievement and functional performance all with multiple levels of security within each application. Sapphire Special Education product provides teachers, special education staff, and administrators with tools for effectively managing the IEP and the overall special education process.
Sapphire Special Education/IEP Writer Key Benefits
- Fully integrated with Sapphire Student Information System
- Capabilities to log all the related services and contact logs
- Improve special education child count money and other funding by identifying students who were served but not counted
- School districts can readily store information for as many years as needed
- Provides security to students’ confidential information stored in the system, granting permission only to those individuals who are authorized to access the student record
- Ability to document all required types of conferences
- Provides for the tracking of initial referral information
- Allows for the storing of previous notices and the creating of new meeting notices
- Designed to support a multi-team development approach
- Tracks and informs special education staff of due dates
- Identifies incomplete IEP areas before finalizing a working document
- Allows users to copy a prior IEP as an outline for a new IEP
- Create an IEP based on an initial evaluation document or based on a reevaluation document
- ER dates, due dates, exceptionalities, IEP meeting date, implementation date, and duration date and multiple assignments
- Generates evaluation (initial, re-evaluation, gifted) reports
- Keeps current with state changes in any reauthorizations
- Fully compliant – Generates PDE approved format IEPs
- Career to date special services history for all documents and forms
- Tracks students’ original entry dates into special education program