“It took almost two hours for him to finally calm down…” Shocked by how long it took, I asked if he just sat in a corner and cried… “No, it...
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I’m so often asked when I decided that I NEEDED to dedicate my life to helping children with special needs reach their excellence. It happened during my senior year of...
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Reading is perhaps one of the most important learned skills we teach our children… Every single aspect of life involves reading! However, it is NOT an easy skill to learn....
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Ah, the classroom! Filled with learning, fun, work, breakthroughs, and the occasional challenge (sometimes more frequent than others)… An easily overlooked classroom phenomenon is the elusive child engagement within the...
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In 1975, President Gerald Ford signed a law that assured students suffering from disabilities the right to education in public schools. This act was known as “Education for All Handicapped...
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It’s difficult enough just being a parent sometimes… The behaviors, sassiness, refusal to listen, and asking the same question literally ten times to FINALLY get a response… Then, you decide...
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I was shocked, actually sort of stunned… There, in front of me was a student who just hours before had absolutely blown the other students out of the water with...
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About five years ago I was a teacher at a trauma-informed independent school in CT, and our student body consisted of about 50 or so high school students who in...
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The other day, we went to the supermarket… There, between the produce and dairy stood a mom in tears… It didn’t take long to see why she was in tears....
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Reading can be a REAL bear… It’s one of those skills we use every single day for our entire lives, but there’s SO much to learn… One of the first...
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