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MAINTAINING SANITY IN THE MIDST OF NEGATIVE BEHAVIOR
If it is well established that all behavior is a form of communication that does not always translate easily and can be quite obscure. Why is it then that behavior frequently can send otherwise rational adults to the brink of mental...
IS YOUR CHILD
LOSING OUT ON SERVICES ?
14% -19% OF CHILDREN
ARE DUE COMPENSATORY EDUCATION SERVICES
DUE TO STAGNATION OR REGRESSION!
BUT WILL THEY GET IT ???????
The COVID-19 pandemic created very unique challenges for schools, students, and parents but, School...
When I read that a six-year-old has been taken from a school in handcuffs by police, as a former special ed teacher, I want to take every administrator in the building from the school in handcuffs by police and let them stay in jail for a couple of days not knowing what is going to happen...
COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROPOSALS
Determinations Must be Individualized.
Think about when will compensatory education be provided? • It should not be delivered when the child is involved in other learning opportunities.
•...
UNDERSTANDING
COMPENSATORY EDUCATION
What is it for?
Who is entitled to Comp. Ed.?
Why is it awarded?
Things that can go wrong!
Compensatory education is for a student deprived of reaching their special education and related services goals in their IEP. Compensatory education is an...
YOUR EVALUATION "SUCKS"
YOU WANT TO DISAGREE
SO WHAT DO YOU DO ?!?
ONLY 4 REASONS
TO DISAGREE WITH
AN EVALUATION UNDER I.D.E.A.
There are times when you are quite sure the child they are discussing is not even related to the child the meeting is for....
Equality, Equity and LRE
When the federal government finally said that the school district could not simply declare that a child "could not be educated" and send them home in 1975 with the federal Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA ),it was the beginning of many new policies in...
GET YOUR GOALS RIGHT!
The concept of Inference is one of those things that we rarely think about because so much of it is automatic and unconscious. That is also why it is so important to be sure that our students are given the opportunity to actually learn and use inference in the right way. It...
But What Did You Mean?
In the world of education, when we talk about the theory of mind we are referring to the ability to understand other people by attributing beliefs, desires, intentions, emotions, opinions or thoughts to them. These ideas may be different from one's own beliefs, desires,...
There are 18 Types of Inference. Do your inference goals include 3 types of literacy, skills needed to make inferences, the types of inferences and inferential outcomes. If not you are not assessing or teaching inferences. Our three buddies do seem to be surprised, or are they scared, maybe...
When teachers decide to use past norms as teaching tools it is incumbent on them that the planning, modeling, and direction of all aspects of the lesson do not inadvertently give the impression that past wrongs are acceptable. I do not know what that North Carolina school was thinking when they...
Oral and Written Language activities can greatly impact comprehension, fluency, and other aspects of reading. The following checklists are guides to the tasks that are common in those areas which point to deficits and which may need more comprehensive evaluation and /or remediation.