Teaching · Special Education

The same skill, at school and at home.

Log short notes from both sides about snacks, money, dressing and other everyday skills. The log lines up school and home for each skill and shows where to share what works.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Special Education toolkit, $99 for 100 items.

The family log

One log per student. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Special Education$19 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
Each skill at school and at home side by side, the skills that differ and what to share, the balance of notes and whose turn it is.
Who it is for
Special education and transition teachers working with families, and the families themselves through the printed log.
Format
Browser form. One saved log per student; printed to send home or as a blank log; CSV of every note; export and import a file.
Access
$19 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Special Education toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Special Education space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
one notebook, two directions
Drawn for this page. Functional skills only count when they work at home; the log carries what works from one place to the other.

How to use it

  1. Choose the skills you and the family agreed to work on.
  2. Add a note each time either side has something to report.
  3. Read the side-by-side list before each new note.
  4. Where a skill differs, share exactly how it is set up in the place it works.
  5. Print the log for meetings so the family’s notes are part of the record.

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How the log helps

Why both sides

Functional skills are judged where they are used. A snack made alone at school and not at home usually means the setup differs: the steps, the prompts or where things are kept.

Keep it light

One line per note is enough. Families answer short, specific questions far more often than open ones.

Language

Write in the family’s preferred language, or arrange translation. IDEA requires that parents understand meetings and notices; a log that works both ways follows the same idea.

Sources

  1. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regulations, 34 CFR 300.322(e) and 300.503(c): parent participation, interpreters and notices in the native language.
  2. U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2016). Policy Statement on Family Engagement from the Early Years to the Early Grades.
  3. Center for Parent Information and Resources, Parent participation in the IEP process.
  4. National Technical Assistance Center on Transition: The Collaborative (NTACT:C), Family engagement in transition planning.

The example student and notes are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.