The Turn Over at Our School
We are on the downhill slide of the year. One more day. And I still don’t know what I’m going to be doing next year! My evaluator hasn’t darkened my door in over a month (and that wasn’t for an...
View ArticleDiscrete Trial Training (DTT)
In making my course for teachers and paras for students with severe disabilities, I’ve been looking for content related to what we do in the classroom. Today I decided to work on Discrete Trial...
View ArticleWelcome Advanced Elearn: I’m Finished For Summer!
I just finished my Advanced Moodle Course (which my county calls Elearn) and did manage to get a decent course laid out that might be useful for the teachers in our county. You can see most of the...
View ArticlePre-Planning
Well, we are back! And so am I. It’s back to the same program and the same room. If I want to do something else, I’m going to have to transfer to a different school because they are never going to...
View ArticleA Little Video Montage of Me
This is a bunch of clips I made from various videos that I’ve posted to Teachertube and/or my YouTube channel. That little guy at the :25 mark may or may not be my oldest son who is now 9! I actually...
View ArticleStill Depressed; A casualty of NCLB
The list just seems to keep growing, doesn’t it? I have talked about NCLB and its effects upon the severe population ever since the it forced everyone to align with it through the use of the alternate...
View ArticleGoing to War
I am currently at war with my school over a really silly, stupid issue. But it does go to a core culture of discrimination against people who have disabilities that is pervasive all through society....
View ArticleWe Need a Better Transition Program
The way NCLB is currently structured and the way schools are really pushing and driving, now is the time to straighten out the transition-to-work emphasis, especially for those students who are older...
View ArticleBlogging Elluminate: Aligning Standards for Students with Significant...
I just finished an Elluminate session put on by our state DOE featuring Dr. Shawnee Wakeman from UNC Charlotte. You can see a copy of that session here. I was good and quiet…for at least the first half...
View Article7 Tips for a Successful Job Fair Experience
In my county or any other county for that matter when attending a job fair I just returned from our county’s Teacher Job fair and it was a bit of a hoot. First off, I was incredibly nervous going into...
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