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Read more »Post Holiday Blues
During my years in the classroom I often wondered who came back with the worst holiday hangover – my students or me. Let’s face it, we all look […]
Read more »Holiday Stress for Kids
Many of us have been brought up to believe the holidays are a wonderfully happy time of year. TV and radio stations play a variety of merry music and shows […]
Read more »Good Ideas Gone Bad
I’ve written the occasional blog on mistakes I’ve made as a teacher of exceptional students. I suppose it would be nice to look back on an unblemished and illustrious career […]
Read more »How Do I Learn?
Over the past couple of years there has been a strong push in our education system to differentiate instruction. With No Child Left Behind and now Common Core Standards legislation […]
Read more »Normal Can Be Deceiving
As an education specialist who has worked in the field of exceptionality for over two decades I have overheard one parent say to another, on more than one occasion, “well […]
Read more »We’re All Human
Sometimes as teachers we’re looked upon as an all seeing all knowing oracle, especially in the primary grades, that simply is above any type of mundane mistake. It’s easy to […]
Read more »Treating Students as Individuals
I find it interesting that in this age of national education standards there is still a strong push to treat the learning needs of every child individually. Don’t get me […]
Read more »Better Ways to Handle Aggression
“The squeaky wheel always gets the oil!” is no more true than in the school setting. One of the squeakiest wheels is the child with anger and aggression issues. In […]
Read more »Harassment in a Digital Age
I remember back in elementary school when a couple of schoolmates kept getting dragged into the principal’s office for teasing a kid that lived just down the street from them. […]
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