Special Education Boss® with Karen Mayer Cunningham
The Special Education Boss® Podcast is where advocacy meets action. Join Karen Mayer Cunningham each week as she empowers parents and professionals to understand their rights, navigate the system, and show up strong at the IEP table.
Podcasting since 2025 • 119 episodes
Special Education Boss® with Karen Mayer Cunningham
Latest Episodes
Ask the Advocate: IEP Data, 504 vs IEP, Behavior, RTI, and Comp Time Q&A
What do you do when the school’s “data” makes no sense, your child is stuck on a 504 instead of an IEP, or behavior is being blamed on your student instead of addressed in the plan? In this Ask the Advocate episode, Karen Mayer Cunningham, The ...
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Season 1
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Episode 120
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56:47
Cold Reads Don’t Lie: An Epic IEP Story Every Parent Needs to Hear
Today’s episode of The Epic IEP™ is a little bit longer — but you’re going to want to hear this. Karen Mayer Cunningham, The Special Education Boss®, shares a real IEP meeting where the school’s data didn’t match what the student could a...
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Season 1
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Episode 119
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6:19
When Vision Minutes Go Wrong: How to Use Data to Fix an Epic IEP
Today’s episode of The Epic IEP™ is going to be a little bit longer — but you’re going to want to hear this. Karen Mayer Cunningham, The Special Education Boss®, shares a story that is funny, frustrating, fantastic, and absolutely essent...
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Season 1
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Episode 118
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6:36
Why Disagreement Isn’t Disrespect: A Real IEP Story
Today’s episode of The Epic IEP™ is a little longer — but you’re going to want to hear this. Karen Mayer Cunningham, The Special Education Boss®, shares a real IEP meeting where everything was “fine”… until the parent disagreed. And that...
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Season 1
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Episode 117
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5:37
Epic IEP Meetings Gone Wild: Services, LRE, Vision Minutes & Telling the Truth About Data
Today’s episode of The Epic IEP™ is a little longer — but you’re going to want to hear this. Karen Mayer Cunningham, The Special Education Boss®, breaks down a real IEP story that starts with “she’s doing fantastic” and ends with a fourt...
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Season 1
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Episode 116
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