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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Tag: Chronicles Of A Teacher
Parent life is busy, and it is hard! What I have found, though, is life is harder when I don’t take care of myself… Yes, I know that my number...
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Being a Special Education teacher in the past, I have learned that it is essential to be as supportive as possible to parents who have children that are a part...
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I work in a large urban school district where classes are big, and budgets are small. Each spring, hundreds (maybe thousands, even) of Early Intervention (EI) students register for Kindergarten....
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I am a TV addict. Honestly, one of my favorite thing to do after a long day is to sit on my couch and zone out while catching up on...
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Special Education has had a special place in my heart for many years. I grew up with a cousin with down syndrome and he would come to our farm and...
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Several years and a few moves (grade levels and districts) into my career as a special educator, I was finally starting to feel as though I had a solid handle...
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I recently moved to a new state, for the first time in my 34 years of life, and have quickly come to find out that when moving 1200 miles away,...
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I remember the first day I met John as if it was yesterday. I was wrapping up my administrative tasks for the day and preparing the Learning Center for the...
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Often, as we embark on our chosen career paths, many of us wonder “is this what I was meant to do.” Sometimes we realize it’s not. However, it’s the “ah...
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