Data Binder Cover Editable

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 19 pages

• 6 editable data binder cover designs in 6 colors, two to a page (pages 5-7), each with a drawn chart-style border and boxes for the student or class, school year, teacher or case manager, and room or grade
• 6 spine labels in 3 widths (two slim, two medium, two wide), one in each cover color
• 6 divider tabs for the data sections: Assessments, Progress Monitoring, Goals, Work Samples, Behavior and Communication. Cut on the dashed lines: one cut down, two across
• A binder table of contents: 15 rows for tab, section, what is behind it and last updated, with a setup checklist
• A student data cover sheet: header fields, a 6-row table of sections with pages, last added and initials, and lines for who works from the binder and where your school keeps it
• A goal tracking page: the goal as written, how it is measured, baseline, target, and a 15-row table of date, score, out of, what I saw and initials
• A progress graph: a 12 by 10 grid to plot each score, a 12-point score table, and a snapshot box for the meeting
• A data binder at a glance page for a paraprofessional, general education teacher or sub: 12 rows of skill, what to count, when, where to write it and initials
• A team hand-off and family update with blanks in your own words
• A phrase bank of 32 starters in 8 groups
• A filled example: one invented student, 8 data points, every number re-added from its own table
• BONUS sub-binder set: a cover, a spine label and 8 blank tabs for a smaller binder inside the big one
• Start Here, a contents page with page thumbnails, and a "what's next" back page

A data binder cover that works with the binder behind it. A cover and a spine make it look finished; the tabs, the contents page, the student cover sheet and the goal pages make it usable at the meeting table.

ALREADY HAVE THE FREE COVERS? Free Binder Covers Editable, also in the Bright Path Sped store, is a free cover, spine and tab set for any binder. This file is the data binder itself: it adds the data-section tabs and the working pages that go inside.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the covers, labels, tabs and pages, or print and use a pen. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT a Google Slides, Google Docs or PowerPoint file, and you cannot drag the boxes around or restyle the pages. The graph is a printed grid: plot your scores by hand.

It is the working paper for your own data binder. It does not say what to measure, what a score means, or who may see the binder; those are your IEP team's and your school's decisions, and the school's rule gets a blank line. No student information is filled in. The example student is invented and says so on the page.

Pictures on the divider tabs are Google Noto Emoji (Apache License 2.0), credited on the last page.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers, case managers, resource teachers and classroom teachers who keep student data in a binder, and the paraprofessionals and substitutes who help write it.