Becoming a National Board Certified Teacher takes a lot of work. This article explores whether it was worth it. … More Was Becoming a National Board Certified Teacher Worth it?
Self-advocacy and Self-Determination is a big thing we focus on when working with students with special needs. And helping students learn about their accommodations and take ownership is a big way to help towards the bigger objective of helping to develop self-determination. … More Developing Self-Advocacy Skills: Starting with Student’s Accommodations
The Break Pass or Allow Breaks accommodation pops up in many IEPs, but you don’t always see it implemented in the day to day. This article outlines how I have used it with some students on my caseload. … More The “Break Pass” IEP Accommodation
There can be a struggle with some families to find out what is causing their child to have challenges. This memoir explores one woman’s journey to find the cause of her son’s language difficulties. … More “Like Sound Through Water” – Book Review
If you are only doing the One Teach, One Assist model of co-teaching or push-in support you need to level up and try to implement the other models as much as possible. This post and video give an overview of how to do the 6 models of co-teaching/push-in support, and examples from my current practice. … More 6 Co-teaching Models: Engaging all Learners through Push-in Support
If you ever wondered about consequences for student behavior and effort, and our role as special education or resource teachers, and how we connect to the home, this post is for you. … More Consequences….Shifting the way we Frame Them for Students
This post outlines the 10 goals I have this school year as a learning support teacher. Trying to reach that King Kupa level. … More 10 Goals for Learning Support this Year: Leveling up as a teacher, one year at a time
A special educator who was labeled as ADHD and ED (Oppositional Defiance Disorder) answers 9 questions about how he does his learning support teacher thing. … More A Special Educator with Special Needs: 9 Questions about being an educator who used to have an IEP
A new special education teacher emailed me through my website asking for some tips…..I remixed my response and added some images. … More Letter (Email) to a new Special Education Teacher
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