Create stronger IEPs with confidence.
AI-powered drafting, review, and quality assurance designed specifically for special educators.
The drafting workflow is currently in a limited beta for invited educators.
What IEPath Navigator Helps You Do
IEPath Navigator is designed to support special education professionals by helping them:
- • Draft measurable IEP goals
- • Streamline special education documentation
- • Support progress monitoring and data collection
- • Reduce time spent writing IEPs
- • Generate AI-assisted draft language for educator review
- • Improve consistency throughout the IEP development process
- • IDEA & FERPA compliance with state standards included
Built by an educator with nearly 30 years of special education experience, IEPath Navigator is designed to support—not replace—the professional judgment of teachers and IEP teams.
Special educators carry too much on too little time.
Between caseloads, paperwork, and meetings, today's special education teachers spend significant time drafting IEPs, reviewing goals, preparing for meetings, and checking compliance requirements — often outside contracted hours.
Drafting IEPs
Hours spent on a blank page turning PLAAFP notes into measurable annual goals.
Reviewing goals
Re-reading every goal for baselines, criteria, and progress monitoring language.
Preparing for meetings
Translating clinical language into something parents and teams actually understand.
Checking compliance
Cross-checking IDEA requirements, state standards, and district expectations — every single time.
One workflow for every part of the IEP.
IEPath Navigator brings drafting, review, alignment, compliance, and meeting prep into a single tool built around how special educators actually work.
AI Draft Generation
Turn PLAAFP notes into three measurable, standards-aligned annual goals in minutes — not evenings.
Quality Review
Every draft is scored on baseline data, measurability, skill deficit identification, and goal readiness.
Goal Alignment Checks
Goals align to your student's state standards, with CCSS noted when state alignment isn't confidently known.
Compliance Support
Color-coded risk levels surface IDEA-defensibility concerns before the IEP meeting, not after.
Meeting Preparation
Plain-language family summaries help you walk into the meeting ready to explain every goal.
Built with educators, not just for educators.
IEPath Navigator is being developed in partnership with special educators, not in isolation.
Founder-led development grounded in nearly 30 years of special education experience
Continuous feedback from practicing educators during beta testing
Iterative improvements based on real classroom and IEP workflow needs
Input from special education professionals who actively write and manage IEPs
Plans for an ongoing educator advisory group to guide future development
Our goal is to ensure this platform reflects real-world practice, not assumptions about it.
Less paperwork. More time with students.
IEPath Navigator exists to help special educators spend less time navigating paperwork and more time supporting students.
We believe technology should strengthen educational decision-making, improve efficiency, and support high-quality IEP development while preserving the professional judgment that educators bring to every student they serve.
Our goal is simple: empower educators with practical tools that save time, improve confidence, and help create stronger educational outcomes for students.
Designed from the inside of a classroom.
Jenny Thompson, M.Ed.
Founder & Special Educator
IEPath Navigator was created by Jenny Thompson, M.Ed., a special educator with nearly 30 years of experience writing IEPs, facilitating meetings, and supporting students, families, and multidisciplinary teams. The platform reflects her commitment to building practical tools that respect educator expertise and give time back to what matters most — students.
"How can we spend less time wrestling with paperwork and more time focusing on students?"
Help shape the future of IEP drafting.
We're inviting a small group of special education teachers to use IEPath Navigator with real student cases and tell us what works, what doesn't, and what's missing. Beta participants get free access, founding-educator pricing at launch, and a direct line to the team.