Private beta · Spring 2026

A quiet garden room for the hardest seat at the table.

Gardenia is where parents, teachers, and advocates meet around a child's special education plan — with the records, the rights, and the real-talk handbook all in one warm workspace.

AES-256 at rest Family-owned data 14-chapter handbook

What lives here

Everything you need to take your seat.

The full triangle.

Parent, advocate, teacher, therapist — one workspace, role-aware permissions. Real RBAC, not email forwarding.

Your records, honored.

AES-256 at rest. Export anything any time. Nothing shared without your signed, informed consent.

Nicole in your corner.

Twenty years of special-ed experience, distilled into the guides, letters, and nudges when you need them.

The 7 rights tracker

Rights, as a workspace.

The Procedural Safeguards packet is the PDF nobody reads. Gardenia breaks the seven rights under IDEA into a living garden — one bloom per right, each with a plain-English summary and a letter-generator button for when you're ready to exercise it.

1
Aware

Prior Written Notice

34 CFR § 300.503

Before the school changes anything, they tell you — in writing.

2
Aware

Informed Consent

34 CFR § 300.9

No evaluation, no placement, no record-sharing without your signed okay.

3
Aware

Access Records

34 CFR § 300.613

Every record, every eval, every note. Yours in 45 days or less.

4
Aware

Due Process

34 CFR § 300.507

The formal legal clock — for when the other paths have failed.

5
Aware

Stay Put

34 CFR § 300.518

Your child stays in current placement until the dispute resolves.

6
Aware

Mediation

34 CFR § 300.506

A free, voluntary, confidential path with a neutral mediator.

Your guide

Written with Nicole Burch.

Twenty years in Georgia public schools as a special-ed teacher, an IEP chair, and a mom in the same seat. Every letter, every nudge, every chapter of the in-app handbook carries her voice — real-talk, grounded, sassy when you need it.

Pull up a chair.
The table is waiting.

Twenty families in the first cohort. No marketing emails — just the invite.

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