Just a quickie blog post, but one I am excited to write: I have accepted a new position for the upcoming school year. In what will be a significant (but very welcome) professional change for me, I will be working with students in grades 4-6 as a school psychologist; as many of you know, my [...]
Over the course of some Memorial Day morning bargain-hunting, I came across this magnet for sale at my local Five Below store: In the last “Words Mean Things” installment, I wrote about the unintended signals our words sometimes send. At least this magnet doesn’t have that problem. I debated saying something to the staff or [...]
This blog post was written at the invitation of Gerald Aungst, Supervisor of Gifted Education at Cheltenham (PA) School District, and is cross-posted at his blog, Quisitivity. I’m a school psychologist, so my professional life is a minefield of labels and acronyms – FAPE, IEP, SLD, OHI, IDEA, PLAAPF, ICS, FBA, “gen ed >80%”, “gen [...]
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Posted 01 May 2011
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I’m making a bit of a change here on my blog – not a huge one; in fact, a miniscule one, but it’s one I think is important. In the sidebar, I keep a list of the different categories of posts. One of them – Reform – I feel has been hijacked by folks who [...]
This is bound to make some people angry, but here goes anyway: does becoming parents ourselves make us better teachers? Of course, the first follow-up question is, “what does ‘better’ mean?” I don’t even know if I have an answer to this, but I started thinking about this because in the last three years I’ve [...]
