Hey, friends, it's Tim Vegas. This is thinking cluesive. I'm just gonna give you a Tim update before we get into our conversation with April rehrig. If you've been listening to the podcast for the last couple months, you know that we're kind of winding down season 11. We have four more episodes until we take a break for the summer, April rehrig. Today, next week will be Louis Lord Nelson, author of design and deliver a UDL expert, and fantastic podcaster if you don't know that already, also Sam Drazen from changing perspectives. And Barry Levin rounds out our June. And she is from the I am Abel Foundation. And though we all learn differently campaign, today, I'm talking to you without a script. It's been a wild a couple of weeks, my daughter graduated from high school, the end of May, we went on a family trip to Nashville. And then last week, I was at the AUCD Leadership Academy in Atlanta, and it was just a whirlwind of activity. And I'm finally back ready to produce and finish out this season of thinking inclusive. But I just wanted to speak to you, without a script today, letting you know that I'm so privileged to be able to do this work. And thank you so much for everyone who has told me that you've been a longtime listener, or that you just started listening. This job is a dream come true. I'm coming up on four years, the in the middle of August, coming up, as we start, you know, season 12. It's unbelievable how life giving and important I feel like this work is and so very fortunate to be able to call this my job. And thank you to everyone at the Maryland Coalition for Inclusive Education for taking a chance on me and what I can bring to you communications, I think I see a big part of my job is, you know, yes, to tell you about how MCIE partners with school districts, and how we can help equip educators and school districts to be more inclusive of all learners to each and every learner, but also to share what is going on in the world of inclusive education as a field. I think I should be leaning into that a little bit more. So I'm just working this out, you know, again, no script today. So thank you. Our guest today is April rehrig. And again, I'm not going to pretend like I'm not reading this. But April rehrig is the founder of Rhys educational advocacy and consulting LLC. She spent over 20 years as an elementary school teacher and school psychologist in Los Angeles. Before starting rise. April's a licensed educational psychologist, and board certified special education advocate. She attended the prestigious COPPA seat 2.0 and 3.0 programs, and April's a certified Autism Spectrum Disorder clinical specialist and Master Ip coach. Her services include Parent Advocacy and IEP coaching TPT toolkits and templates and do it yourself IEP workshops, which we actually talked about during our conversation. We talked about strings spaced IEPs I'm not going to I'm not going to preview it any more than that. I think that that's a really good explanation of our conversation. And if you want to learn more about string space IEPs how to maybe rethink about what words and strategies you're putting in IEPs stick around today and all of the episodes in June, are sponsored by the described and caption media program. DCMP is the nation's leading source of accessible educational videos. Membership is Free for families and school personnel with at least one early learner through grade 12 student with a disability membership includes free access to 1000s of videos educational television series with captions, audio description, and American Sign Language. DCMP also provides guidelines for captioning and describing educational media as well as professional development and elearning resources. DCMP is fully funded by the US Department of Education, and all its services are free. So, go check out the CMP dot o RG and see how the CMP can support your school or student. Okay, now, we're going to play some ads. And then when we come back my conversation with April rehrig. We're not gonna have your free time this week. I just didn't have time to put anything together at the end of this conversation, but I will tease something. There may be a bonus episode sometime in June that you're not going to want to miss. I'll tell you about it next week.