We just started today, but we don't have any IEPs this year -- they dropped DS's IEP last year due to stellar progress, and it worked out fine, so we're hoping that it still goes ok with him fully in middle school this year.

However, when we did have one, we always had a meeting a week or two before school started, with everyone who was involved with him, just to set things up and get everybody on the same page. And another one a few weeks into the year after the chaos settled out, to see how things were going.