IEP Progress vs SameGoal Special Education

IEP Progress helps special-education teachers monitor IEP goals, collect evidence, and prepare progress reports. Uploading an IEP extracts its goals, objectives, baselines, and dates. As users log data, each goal is graphed against its target line; graphs can be printed with reports or copied into district systems. The app can draft progress narratives, Present Levels, and annual goals from logged data for the teacher to review and finalize. Evidence can include marked trials and photos of student work. Behavioral goals support daily check-ins, while the related ABC Tracker records antecedent, behavior, and consequence data and can draft behavior plans for editing. Progress reports, including graphs, can be translated into family languages, but the official IEP remains in English. Care plans can be exported as PDFs. The service is available on Android, iOS, and web. Individual IEP Progress and ABC Tracker plans each cost $79/year and list a 15-day trial; school plans for either app start at $59/teacher/year with a five-teacher minimum. AI features have a fair-use limit sized for a caseload of about 30.

SameGoal Special Education helps school districts manage IEPs, evaluations, progress reporting, and related documentation using state-published forms aligned with IDEA. Staff can edit documents in real time, chat within the product, and collaborate during parent meetings. Automated checks flag missing, inconsistent, and non-compliant data; a document cannot be completed until all checks pass. The forms library includes required, optional, and model forms published by state education departments.

Districts can share documents electronically for parents to view and sign on phones, tablets, or laptops. Directors can review district-wide documents, use administrative reports, and extract state reporting data; participation and deadlines are tracked automatically. The product supports SIS integrations and nightly imports of student and parent demographics, and completed documents can be displayed in the SIS. It is a web application for current and previous versions of Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and Safari, and Android and iOS are listed platforms. Plans are per student per year for the 2026–27 school year: Standard is 12.98 USD, Plus 15.28 USD, and Pro 17.97 USD. A free 90-day trial is available; there is no free plan.