About four years ago, I received a text from a colleague asking me how I write IEP goals. "Carefully", I responded, imagining what lay beneath this seemingly benign query. Soon the discussion turned to the role of the Common Core in the IEP. We debated what IDEA. the individuals with Disabilities Education Act, intended by stating that IEP goals had to be about "access to the general curriculum" and how to link the content of a student's IEP to the academic standards for the student's corresponding grade. Why couldn't you just write a standard as the goal?, we wondered.
