Systems Design, Not Compliance: Inside Eagle County's Approach to Exceptional Student Services

New Episode of "Beyond the Box"

Dr. Ronald Taylor sits down with  Troy Lange, Executive Director of Exceptional Student Services at Eagle County School District in Colorado, to answer it.

Troy oversees special education, gifted & talented, and nursing services across a district serving students ages 3 to 21. The conversation gets into real operational terrain: moving from teacher-selected materials to a districtwide service delivery model, building intervention fidelity that actually holds, navigating the genuine tension between standards-based grading and IEPs, and supporting twice-exceptional learners who need both challenge and scaffolding.

What strikes us most: Troy frames this not as a compliance challenge but as a systems design challenge. That's exactly the shift district leaders need to make.

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