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A Special Day
I got honored today in an ususual and delightful way: a series of novels was dedicated to me and my students. The novels are the latest series by Elise Leonard and published by Nox Press. Elise is a...
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Not Smart about SmartBoards
Shortly after returning from the Christmas/New Year break my principal told me that due to a new focus on raising the achievement levels of special education students, all the special ed classrooms...
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Good News! And Maybe The Opposite.
Image via Wikipedia We got good news today. It was leaked to us late last week, but today we were officially told. Our school had met Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) goals in all categories and subgroups...
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Learning Not To Drown
Image via Wikipedia Once again I’m feeling like a fish out of water. I’m a special education teacher teaching two general education social studies classes. I’ve told you about my struggles with my...
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Differentiating Deliciously
Image via Wikipedia No, I’m not talking about the social bookmarking site. I’m talking about education and food. That’s what this blog is supposed to be about and in a Twitter response to my last...
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Student Progress: Sometimes Its Not the Teacher
Teacher accountability is all the rage. Image by lorenabuena via Flickr I don’t think there is anyone who would argue that teachers should not be accountable for what they do or fail to do, not even...
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The Importance of Problem-Solving Skills
Image via Wikipedia I saw a very odd thing today. I am on vacation in Santa Fe, NM and my wife Jill and I were walking back to our hotel from an event on Saturday morning when we saw it. Someone had...
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It Isn’t In the Air
Image by scholz via Flickr It’s not in the water. It’s not in our food. It’s neither in the music we hear nor the news we watch. It is certainly not in the chalk dust we breathe. None of those things...
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