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• Detention, A Cure for Gas?!

  
  Half-Past Kissin' Time — Authority: 127
  [The following is one of my favorite posts, originally published 10/07. The chuckle is worth the repeat!] Yesterday, I wrote a referral for a 6th grade (female) student who just wont stop farting out loud in class. (Yes, I said farting . And female.) So, the principal gets wind of it (haha) and sends me a note, ...
  11 hours ago

• State funds to help mainstream special needs students

  
  Courier Times Now — Authority: 604
  The Bristol Township School District has secured about $40,000 in state funds to train teachers and parents to work with students who have autism, anger management concerns and other behavioral health issues, officials said. The training is part of the district’s ongoing effort to include more special education ...
  13 hours ago

• Bricks Without Straw

  
  The Life That Chose Me — Authority: 103
  I always intended this blog to be mostly informative and supportive for parents and other teachers that do what I do.  In the earliest days, it was also a place to vent my spleen mostly about NCLB and the GAA.  Those things are still vent worthy and I’m overdue for a vent.  But today I’m throwing up yet another ...
  13 hours ago

• To all the girls he’s loved before…

  
  What We Need — Authority: 112
       C loves the ladies. And they love him back. From his early days of charming grandmotherly types at the post office and calling every woman he saw a “pretty lady,” it’s always been about the girls. There’s a few he’s left behind; most notably the “it” girl of elementary school, if there is such a ...
  17 hours ago

• Having The Right Language Software

  
  Homeschool Facts — Authority: 462
  Language software which is now proliferating in the market is one of the most sought after gadgets for easy and fast way to learn different languages. No need to worry where to find software of this...
  1 day ago

• Teaching Is Starting To Be Fun Again. Finally.

  
  Education On The Plate — Authority: 406
  Image via Wikipedia I’ve spend most of my teaching career trying to push, pull, and otherwise motivate students who have failed so often that they have all but given up on the idea of school. Don’t get me wrong; I don’t think that giving up on school is always a bad thing, just that there are sometimes ...
  2 days ago

• Poll Results In; Were Back in First Place

  
  Special Education Law Blog — Authority: 418
  As a part of the fun component of the special education law blog, we run a poll on the lefthand side of the blog. These are not scientific endeavors, and we do not pretend that the results resemble science in any way. Nonetheless, we think that they are fun. The most recent poll just ended. The question was: ...
  3 days ago

• Blog Accomplishment

  
  Pissed Off — Authority: 510
  Im not sure if this blog had anything to do with it, but, the ISS supervisor just sent out an e-mail explaining IEPs, especially the confidentiality portion which was missing with the IEPs. It feels good to know that my bitching may actually be helping our students. BTW, the boy I was confused about here still has ...
  3 days ago

• Teach Your Teachers Well: New Hot Topic -Teacher Education

  
  Special Education Law Blog — Authority: 418
  I know that a number of the readers of this blog are professors who teach future teachers. I know a bunch of them, and they are really good at what they do. They are enthusiastic and dedicated to their students and those children whom their students will be teaching. But the way we train teachers is suddenly in the ...
  4 days ago

• Opinion: Special ed underfunding causes inequitable treatment

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 437
  From the Muskegon [MI] Chronicle:Public school superintendent Steve Cousins writes that special education is the largest underfunded mandate for Michigan school districts.  While Michigan works to provide special-education services to a wider range of people than any other state, lack of federal and state funding ...
  4 days ago

• A Partnership That Works

  
  Edwize — Authority: 466
  [Editors note: Teaching in Brooklyn is a fourth-year teacher at a Brooklyn elementary school.] After spending my first two years as a first grade teacher working solo in an elementary school classroom of 28 students, I was recently hired at a new school as the general education teacher working with a special ed ...
  4 days ago

• Enriching Multiple Language Skills with One Trick

  
  Marnee Brick's Speech Therapy Telepractice Blog — Authority: 114
  When trying to support children who have language challenges, how can you possibly address grammar, sentence structure, verb tenses, pronouns, concepts, comprehension, and other skills all at once – while teaching an entire class?  A good place to start is to integrate PRE-TELLING; TELLING, and RE-TELLING (PTR) ...
  4 days ago

• IDEA Legislative Recommendations

  
  Principal's Policy Blog — Authority: 106
  On Nov. 3, 2009, NASSP released its Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Task Force Legislative Recommendations. The nine recommendations were developed by the IDEA Task Force , which is composed of 11 active middle level and high school principals or assistant principals and four representatives from ...
  5 days ago

• More Stimulus Math: Cooking the Books on Stimulus Jobs

  
  Big Government — Authority: 793
  Earlier this year the federal government sent $3 billion tax dollars to the state of Illinois to provide financial support for education as part of the American Recovery and Investment Act of 2009, a.k.a. “the stimulus,”.  Not for building schools, mind you.  There is money for that elsewhere in the $787 billion ...
  5 days ago

• Non-Public Schools in MI

  
  Barto's World — Authority: 91
  MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Michigan Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Early Intervention Services will conduct public hearings to receive comment on the following proposed administrative rules and documents: Special Education Programs and Services ...
  5 days ago

• Making School a Positive Experience for Autistic Students

  
  Teachhub Education Blog — Authority: 129
  Autism and school are becoming a hot topic for school boards and parent groups right across the country and around the world. As no two autistic children display precisely the same autism symptoms, it becomes impossible to create a standardized program that creates positive experiences for children with autism at ...
  5 days ago

• Bunny Bear’s Holiday Special CD Offer

  
  EPR Network Blog — Authority: 146
  Released on: November 4, 2009, 7:46 amAuthor: Deborah Levine, American Diversity ReportIndustry: EducationBunny Bear’s Adventure’s in Diversity Land will make you laugh and make you sigh! Surprise your youngsters with this brand new collection of stories they can enjoy all year. Buy 2 audio CDs by November 30 ...
  6 days ago

• The Education Wars II

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 445
  I wish I had known about filing a federal civil rights lawsuit against Washoe County School District when one of my principals wanted me to illegally put all of my students on alternate testing, regardless of their eligibility, so as to not drag down the schoolwide test scores. I probably would have prevailed in ...
  6 days ago

• Texas Tribune’s launch has health data, stories

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 432
  As you may have noticed, the much-anticipated nonprofit news site Texas Tribune launched today . From the start, the venture is including hard-hitting health news, leading with a data-driven story on the restraint of special education students in Texas schools and following through with a number of state-oriented ...
  6 days ago

• Halloween as a Language Booster

  
  Marnee Brick's Speech Therapy Telepractice Blog — Authority: 114
  Hello Everyone,October 31st was Halloween – a day that is often associated with dressing in a costume and going door to door saying “Trick or Treat” in order to fill up a pillow case with candy.My daughter is a pro. She and her friends devoted the better part of a month designing their costume [...]
  1 week ago

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