
Transforming Special Education with Empowerment, Improvement & Measurable Results



Break Free of the Special Education Status Quo
Our team of experienced professionals can offer the expertise you need to achieve effective Special Education that gets real results for kids. This means that you don’t worry about staff turnover, inconsistent services, or developmental delays for kids with special needs.
This comprehensive approach offers districts:
- Compensatory service process creation, implementation support, and development for COVID-19 and other immediate need responses.
Our goal is to empower parents, teachers, and districts to navigate the beast of the special education system for the benefit of the kids within it. Helping parents get their kids what they need from their education. Think empowerment rather than simply advocacy — it’s a more holistic approach.
Our team can help with specialized services that assist families no matter their need, including
- COVID-19 response support. It’s been a hard year, we can help you ensure yur child doesn’t get left behind.
- IEP analysis with recommendations report
- Parent Education and Training
- Pro Bono Advocacy
As a school or network, you understand the need for quality systems and expert support on everything from IEP creation to scheduling. At Project IDEA, we do too. We want to change the current narrative of churn and burn Special Education leaders because we believe there is another way to build success and consistency over time.
Consistency and continuity are the key to moving from status quo to transformational results for students. Project IDEA can help.
- Full-service replacement of Special Education management to ensure quality and compliance
- New Special Education team system development
- Professional Development from Basics to Advanced
- Coaching Special Education teachers and teams on effective practices and Specially Designed Instruction
- IEP Review to ensure a team is prepped for meetings
- Coaching for team members to artfully facilitate an IEP meeting
- Meeting facilitation services
Learn more about this transformational approach to Special Education
Special Education Consultants
A New Approach
Districts have skill gaps when it comes to special ed. The truth is that most Special Education leaders have a 2-3 year tenure, making it impossible for a district to build success and consistency over time. Plus, those individuals are rarely a complete package and it is incredibly difficult to excel at every facet of Special Education. It’s a complicated beast of technical knowledge, leadership competencies, and the ability to navigate legal and parent challenges. We understand.
At Project IDEA our innovative approach to Special Education offers expertise across a range of needs for districts including highly experienced specialized consultants in instruction, management, projects, and more.
This is a unique offering as it can be provided across a district — not limited to just one school. Embedding stability in special education — getting the quality schools need as they grow.
Project IDEA saves districts money and time with expertise on a consultant basis, consistent access, and excellence in all areas of special ed.


Focus on the science of continuous improvement:
What Districts, parents and kids need now
This gives a stigma to special ed and the pressure on teachers and admins often leads to high turnover and burnout.
What makes our approach different
Special education has lacked consistency, funding, and comprehensive services….Until now.
- A comprehensive approach that is not dependent on any individual employee.
- Expert consultation from service providers, former principals, general educators, and Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs), and other disability-specific experts.
- Create and monitor adherence to a strategic plan to achieve student proficiency for BOTH general education standards and Special Education goals.
- Results = Measurable Success for General Education Standards and Special Education Goals
- A Team of Special Education Expert Leaders Dedicated to Your Child’s Success

DSST: Byers Middle & High School
2019 National Blue Ribbon School

Our Values
Equity
We understand the intersection of racism and ableism. We are on our own journeys to confront white supremacy, bias, and white fragility and this is at the center of our work.
Integrity
Nothing we do compromises our commitment to doing right by students with disabilities.
Partnership
Accomplishing our goals comes from the way we do the work together.
Passionate Creativity
We leverage our own strengths, appreciate our own neurodiversity, and seek out-of-the-box solutions.
Evidence Driven
What fuels us is what works.
Scrappy
We do what it takes to tackle education’s most challenging problems.
ABOUT PROJECT IDEA
About Us
Special Education administration experience focusing on legal cases and navigating the functions of being the Local Education Agent (LEA). Our expertise in the systems and inner workings of DPS and APS are unparalleled.
We are also unapologetic in our commitment to ensuring our daily work is antiracist. We see the intersection of racism and disability playing out in schools and a core part of our mission is to disrupt that system through continued learning and examination of our white privilege, bias, and fragility for our white staff and through amplifying the voices of BIPOC staff.
Our team offers experts across domains including related service providers, former principals, general educators, BCBAs and other disability-specific experts. This level of expertise ensures that we can support any level of student need and turn stagnating progress across individuals or groups of students into meaningful, demonstrable growth.
Our goal as an organization is to build the capacity of people within your organization.

Each year, our success is indicated by our ability to release certain supports — with the ability to flex, increase, and adapt as your network’s needs evolve.
We know the landscape, we know how to get results, and we understand intimately the needs of your network.