Dr. Daryll Wharton
Keynote Speaker| Special Education Compliance Strategist • Beyond Compliance Advisors
Baltimore, Maryland, United States •
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About
Specializes specifically in single-site and small multi-campus charter schools with in-house SPED programs rather than broad education consulting. Combines SPED compliance expertise with process improvement, workflow redesign, and operations discipline tailored to small charter school realities. Moves beyond audits and training to build practical year-round systems: file QA, corrective action plans, dashboards, SOPs, and weekly accountability routines. Brings 20+ years across K-12 education, special education, charter leadership, adult learning, coaching, and student-centered advocacy. Holds Advanced Professional Certification in Special Education, a Master’s in Leadership in Teaching, Special Education, and DFAL certification in adult learning design and facilitation. Award-winning speaker with lived credibility as the mother of a child with special needs, helping leaders balance technical compliance, staff adoption, and family trust.
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Special education compliance is often treated as a scramble that starts right before renewal or an audit. This session offers a different path. Dr. Daryll introduces the BCA Framework of Process, Practice, and Purpose alongside the READY Method, a five step approach to building special education systems that hold up under any review. Attendees learn why noncompliance is a systems problem, not a people problem, and walk away with a clear picture of what a sustainable, audit ready IEP office actually looks like.
Key Takeaways
- School leaders and educators will understand why noncompliance is a systems problem, not a people problem, and how that shift changes the entire approach to compliance.
- School leaders and educators will learn the five components of the READY Method and how each one supports audit readiness throughout the year.
- Build systems that reduce last-minute compliance stress
- School leaders and educators will see how Process, Practice, and Purpose work together to build a special education office that families trust and audits confirm.
Audience
Charter School Operators, Administration, and IEP Teams
Format
Duration
60 Minutes
Delivery
Many special education systems break down quietly. A missed timeline here. An unclear handoff there. None of it looks like a crisis until renewal or an audit puts a spotlight on it. This half day workshop moves teams beyond talking about compliance and gives them the time and structure to build it. Using the BCA Framework of Process, Practice, and Purpose, Dr. Daryll leads attendees through the READY Method step by step, reviewing current systems, establishing clear procedures, applying them consistently, defending outcomes with documentation, and building the habits that keep an IEP office ready all year. Attendees work in teams throughout the day and leave with a working draft of at least one core IEP office procedure, built and ready to implement.
Key Takeaways
- School leaders and educators will leave with a working draft of at least one core IEP office procedure, built during the session and ready to implement.
- School leaders and educators will walk through all five components of the READY Method and apply each one directly to their own school's systems.
- School leaders and educators will build stronger alignment across their team on how Process, Practice, and Purpose work together to support both staff and students.
Audience
Special Education Teams
Format
Duration
Half-Day
Delivery
Too often, a student with a disability becomes a label before they are seen as a learner. The IEP defines them. The special education team owns them. The general education classroom treats them as someone else's responsibility. But every student with a disability is a general education student first, and the moment a school truly believes that, everything downstream gets stronger. This talk reframes special education as a shared mindset rather than a separate placement. Dr. Daryll roots the conversation in Purpose, the belief that you serve the child before the category, then shows how that mindset reshapes Practice, how teams plan for and own students together, and Process, the systems that keep an IEP office effective and compliant. The mindset is not the opposite of compliance. It is where compliance begins.
Key Takeaways
- School leaders and educators will understand why seeing the student before the label is the real foundation of effective special education.
- School leaders and educators will learn how to build a culture where general education and special education share ownership of every student.
- School leaders and educators will see how this same mindset strengthens the everyday systems and compliance their IEP office depends on.
Format
Duration
60 Minutes
Delivery
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