Built by an educator, for educators.
IEPath Navigator exists because high-quality, legally defensible IEPs shouldn't cost teachers their evenings, weekends, and well-being. Our work is grounded in the lived experience of special education classrooms.
The classroom moment that started it all.
Hi, I'm Jenny Thompson, M.Ed.
For nearly 30 years, I've worked alongside students, families, and educators in special education. Throughout my career, I have written, reviewed, and supported hundreds of Individualized Education Programs (IEPs), facilitated meetings, collaborated with multidisciplinary teams, and helped educators navigate the complexities of special education services.
Like many special educators, I experienced the growing challenge of balancing meaningful student support with increasing paperwork, compliance requirements, documentation demands, and limited time.
I often found myself asking the same question:
How can we spend less time wrestling with paperwork and more time focusing on students?
That question ultimately led to the creation of IEPath Navigator.
IEPath Navigator was designed to support—not replace—the professional expertise of educators. The platform is built to help streamline portions of the IEP development process, improve consistency, support compliance, and provide practical tools that help educators work more efficiently while maintaining professional judgment and individualized decision-making.
As an educator, I understand that every student is unique and every IEP team decision matters. My vision is to create technology that serves educators, respects their expertise, and helps them devote more time to meaningful student outcomes.
Thank you for being part of this journey.
Stronger IEPs. Less burnout. Better outcomes.
Our mission is to give every special education teacher the time, tools, and confidence to write IEPs that hold up legally, drive measurable student progress, and communicate clearly with families.
We measure success the way teachers do: by the quality of the goals, the clarity of the conversation at the meeting table, and the hours returned to instruction and care.
A response to a system stretched too thin.
commonly spent per IEP across drafting, review, and meeting prep — often outside contracted hours.
compliance stakes: a single unmeasurable goal can put a district at legal risk.
caseloads and turnover in special education make sustainable workflows essential, not optional.
IEPath Navigator was created because the existing toolset — district IEP systems, blank templates, generic AI chatbots — wasn't built for the actual demands of a special education caseload. None of them combined drafting, compliance review, standards alignment, and family communication in a single educator-centered workflow.
We started with one belief: special educators don't need another generic AI. They need a focused, accountable tool that understands what an IEP has to do and supports the teacher who has to defend it.
Four principles guide everything we build.
Teachers in the driver's seat
AI assists with the draft. The educator makes every clinical and instructional decision.
Compliance is non-negotiable
Every output is reviewed against the standards that hold up in an IEP meeting and beyond.
Family-friendly by default
Plain-language summaries give parents real understanding, not jargon.
Built with, not for, educators
Designed alongside practicing case managers — the workflow matches how teachers actually work.
Be part of what we're building.
IEPath Navigator is in active beta with practicing special education teachers. Join us, share your experience, and help shape a tool that gives the profession its time back.