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Supporting Students with Learning Disabilities during a School Shutdown

03/30/2020 by admin Leave a Comment

Today started our state’s third week of Virtual Learning due to the COVID-19 precautions and country-wide shutdowns. I am sure you have probably read at least twenty blog posts about ‘homeschooling’ your kids during this stressful and (for most of us) unprecendented time. I have tweeted a few resources here and there, but I thought … [Read more…]

Posted in: Parent Resources, Special Education Tagged: Amendment Meeting, Blended Learning, CK12, CoTaught Classrooms, Covid-19 School Closures, Dybuster, Dyscalculia, Dyslexia, EasyCBM, ESY, Extended School Year, FAPE, IDEA, IEP, IEP Accommodations, IEP Amendment, Learning Disabilities, LRE, Progress Monitoring, Readability, ReadWorks, Resource Classrooms, SLD, Study Island, Virtual Learning

Virtual Learning Cannot Serve The Needs of Students with IEPs

03/23/2020 by admin 4 Comments

Our country’s Education system is failing our students with disabilities. We are going to continue to fail them because their needs cannot be adequately met through a computer. That is not an indictment; it is my professional opinion. As I watched my twitter feed during the past 10 days, I can say with 100% confidence: … [Read more…]

Posted in: Special Education Tagged: 504 Plan, Covid-19 School Closures, FAPE, Free Appropriate Public Education, IDEA, IEP, IEP Accommodations, Least Restrictive Environment, LRE, Special Education, Student Supports, Virtual Learning

Georgia’s Math Teachers Need to Know the Pacing Guide is Ableist

12/24/2019 by admin 1 Comment

If you are a Math Teacher in the state of Georgia, chances are, you fall into one of the following categories: (1) Your district (or charter school) strictly adheres to the state’s pacing guide; or, (2) Your district (or charter school) gives you the flexibility to choose how you introduce and teach the Georgia Standards of Excellence for … [Read more…]

Posted in: The Daily Teacher Grind Tagged: Coteaching, Dyscalculia, IDEA, IEP, IEP Accommodations, Math Teacher, Middle School Math, Resource Math, Special Education

Delusions of Teaching Grandeur; or, All the Things I Thought I’d Try in My Resource Math Class

08/25/2019 by admin 1 Comment

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry Robert Burns Remember what I wrote the last time about the pacing of the Math curriculum being too fast for the students in my Resource Math class? Well, we all hit a wall on Friday. I think I actually ran full-speed ahead into that wall. … [Read more…]

Posted in: The Daily Teacher Grind Tagged: Dyscalculia, Dyslexia, IEP, IEP Accommodations, Learning Disabilities, Middle School Math, Middle school teacher, Open Up Resources Math, Opportunity Gap, OUR Math, Resource Math, Special Education Teacher

Slow Down! Child Learning Zone

08/18/2019 by admin Leave a Comment

I spent part of my Saturday evening working on the Math lesson plan for my 6th grade class. Yes, yes…I know I said I wouldn’t do any work on the weekends, but school life happens! These past 2 weeks have zoomed by and, although I have accomplished a lot, I still need to use some … [Read more…]

Posted in: The Daily Teacher Grind Tagged: IEP, Learning Disabilities, Math Learning Disabilities, Math lesson plans, Math pacing guide, Middle School Math, Middle school teacher, Resource Math, Special Education, Special Education Teacher

State-by-State Special Education Contact List

05/08/2019 by admin Leave a Comment

What kind of Special Education Teacher would I be if I did not have the patience of someone striving Job lie Job?? When I say my patience has been tested with getting this list completed and ‘live’, please believe me! I tried sharing it first on my blog as a PDF (not in a post) … [Read more…]

Posted in: Parent Resources Tagged: Advocacy Resources, Autism, IDEA, IEP, IEP Meeting, Learning Disabilities, Mild Intellectual Disabillity, Special Education, Special Needs, Special Needs Parents, State Advocacy Resources, State Special Education Directors

IEP Accommodations: What so many get wrong

04/07/2019 by admin Leave a Comment

Special Education and IEP accommodations for students with disabilities are a recurring topic in several online teacher groups. Most recently, a teacher posted a list of ‘problems’ plaguing classroom teachers, with one being ‘too many IEPs and accommodations’. My response was short and simple: “Too many IEPs and accommodations? LOL!” Then, I quickly exited the discussion … [Read more…]

Posted in: The Daily Teacher Grind Tagged: Accommodations, Coteaching, IEP, Inclusion, Learning Disabilities, Special Education, Special Needs

I’m a tired teacher, but I’m still here

10/28/2018 by admin Leave a Comment

Here I am, again. Trying to convince myself to keep a blog alive. To my credit, I have written a few things on Medium, but even those posts have become sparse. Most of the time I feel as though I’m shouting the same stuff into the Universe’s largest echo chamber, anyway. Who wants to read … [Read more…]

Posted in: The Daily Teacher Grind Tagged: Coteaching, ESOL, IEP, Opportunity Gap, Public Education, Special Education, Special Education Teacher, Student Advocacy, Urban education

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