Can your child’s IEP goals
actually be measured?
Paste one goal from your child’s IEP below. You’ll see which of the five things a trackable goal needs are actually in the wording — and the question to ask about anything that’s missing. Nothing leaves your browser.
“Student will improve reading fluency by the end of the school year.”
Worth asking: what number are we starting from, and how will we know it’s moving?
It isn’t in your head. It’s in the transcripts.
When researchers recorded IEP meetings and counted who was speaking, parents accounted for 15% of intervals. School staff accounted for 51%.
Martin et al., 2006Every number here is sourced
These tools are free, and they stay free.
Three free tools
Start with whichever one matches your week.
No account, no uploads, nothing about your child. Each one opens on its own page so you can send a link to someone.
Goal checker
Paste one goal and see which of the five things a trackable goal needs are actually in the wording — and the question to ask about anything missing.
Check a goalJargon decoder
Sixteen acronyms in plain English — FAPE, LRE, PWN, PLAAFP — each with one question you can ask at the table.
Decode the acronymsState timelines
The federal 60-day floor, and the seventeen states whose own deadlines are verified — including which ones count school days.
See your stateGuides
The questions parents actually ask.
Written from what parents post publicly before a meeting, not from what reads well in a brochure.
Does the IEP process differ by state?
One federal law, seventeen different clocks. What changes when you cross a state line.
My child isn't making reading progress
Before asking why, settle whether the goal says how progress gets measured.
What does the eligibility category mean?
The thirteen federal categories, and why the label doesn't decide what your child receives.
What should I ask at the meeting?
A question list grouped by what you're trying to find out, plus how to prep the night before.
Changing schools or districts
What comparable services means, and what to hand the new school on day one.
Good grades, unclear IEP progress
Two documents measuring different things — and the question that lives in the gap.
What we collect
Almost nothing.
These tools were built to be useful before you trust anyone with anything. That means no account, no uploads, and no document ever leaving your device.
The goal checker runs in your browser. The text you paste is never transmitted, stored, or seen by anyone, including us.
No uploads anywhere on this site. There is nowhere to put your child’s IEP, on purpose.
Your email, only if you ask for a PDF. Used to send the file you asked for and occasional prep resources. One click to stop, and it’s never sold or shared.
Nothing about your child. No name, no diagnosis, no district, no school. We never ask, so we can never leak it.
Who made this
One person, twenty-eight years of asking documents to prove themselves.
I spent twenty-eight years as an auditor. The job is narrow and it never changes: someone hands you a document that asserts something, and you find out whether the evidence behind it actually exists.
IEP paperwork is full of assertions. Progress is reported, goals are written, minutes are listed. Whether the evidence is there is a separate question, and it’s the one most parents never get a straight answer to. These tools are the small end of that: three things I wished someone had handed my family before a meeting.
Built in Columbus, Georgia. They’re free, they stay free, and email goes to a person.
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