A draft in minutes, not hours.
Pull from prior evaluations, progress data, and your student's actual history. You refine — you don't start from a blank page at midnight.
Saves ~4 hrs per IEPIEPs · Compliance · Progress notes
Less paperwork. More presence.
For SPED teachers buried under IEP paperwork and compliance admin, lightningSPED is the first tool built entirely for your world — making the administrative work so fast, it stops stealing time from the students who need you most.
If this sounds familiar
You didn't become a SPED teacher to do paperwork.
- You're drafting an IEP at 10 p.m. because there was no time during the day between pulling kids for services, covering a para shortage, and responding to three parent emails.
- You're copy-pasting the same goal language across six students because you genuinely don't have thirty more minutes to tailor each one properly.
- You're toggling between four systems that weren't built for special ed — and none of them talk to each other.
- A compliance deadline slipped last month and the guilt is still sitting in your chest. You care. There's just too much.
What it does
The admin side of SPED
just got fast.
Four tools, built specifically for the SPED workflow. No bloat. No "try to make general edtech fit your world." Just the work, done.
Deadlines that never sneak up.
Every annual review, reevaluation, and progress report tracked in one place. Alerts before they're urgent, not after.
Airtight audit trailData collection that doesn't interrupt teaching.
Tap-to-log goal data in the moment. Charts generate themselves. Quarterly reports stop being a weekend project.
Works offlineParents in the loop — without more email.
Turn progress notes into family-ready updates in one tap. Translated automatically. Families stay connected to growth, not locked out of it.
12 languagesWhat we believe
Not built for SPED teachers.
Built with them.
Every feature, every flow, every word — shaped by the people actually doing the work.
Why lightningSPED
Built for SPED. Not adapted. Not retrofitted.
Generic edtech
- —Built for general ed, bolted onto SPED as an afterthought
- —IEP templates are dropdowns in a form
- —Compliance is your problem to track
- —Works like enterprise software from 2009
- —Parent comms means another tool
lightningSPED
- ✦Built alongside SPED teachers from day one
- ✦IEPs draft themselves from real student data
- ✦Compliance is automatic and audit-ready
- ✦Feels like momentum, not homework
- ✦Family updates live inside the workflow
Your students
need you back.
We're building lightningSPED right now, with SPED teachers. Drop your email and we'll let you know the moment it's ready.