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We’ve had the good fortune to have special education attorney Wayne Steedman provide us with high quality, professional answers to complicated special education law questions (IEP, ESY, LRE, AYP, MET, NCLB … if all these letters are leaving you feeling l-o-s-t, check out our “Special Education Terms” section of the Education tab) on our show [...]
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When bad things happen who survives ….. and who doesn’t?
When life caves in around you who bounces back ….. and who collapses under the weight?
Why can a tragedy hit a family and one sibling self-destructs while the other one thrives?
Why do some folks seem to get all the breaks while others seem to live under [...]
Healthy eating, nutrition, and understanding what food labels are REALLY saying were all topics covered in our grocery shopping tour with guest, Kimberly Lord Stewart.
Ms. Stewart is the author of Eating Between the Lines: The Supermarket Shopper’s Guide to the Truth Behind Food Labels. She is the recipient of two 2004 Association of Food Journalist awards for [...]
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I’m subscribed to so many different news sources and RSS feeds that in the morning it’s like an avalanche of news and stories cascading down my screen.
Normally, I read through the ones that catch my eye and then throw a couple of good ones in the – blog about it pile. Invariably though I’m only [...]
YouTube – Tim Ferriss – How to Peel Hard-boiled Eggs without Peeling
Digital Tools Expand Options for Personalized Learning
How To Clean a Wool Rug with Snow
Transfer Your Balances Now to Safeguard Against Coming Credit Card Changes
Suit: Pa. school used webcams to spy on students – Yahoo! News
There’s some great tips and websites in this link below. [...]
I really like this kind of stuff. Random trivia, tech ideas, cool tips, hacks and items like this one today where I learn I’ve basically been driving wrong for, well, as long as I’ve been driving.
According to a Society of Automotive Engineers report if we all would simply adjust our mirrors properly we could pretty [...]
First Comes Love, Then Comes . . .
Perhaps as a result of Valentine’s Day romance, more pregnancy and infertility test kits are sold approximately six weeks after Valentine’s Day than at any other time of the year. Consumers spend more than $15 million3 on pregnancy and infertility test kits during the second, third and fourth [...]
Guests
Nancy Kaufman – Director Kaufman Children’s Center
Speech challenges and speech delays are a hurdle that many children, and families, have to work exceptionally hard to overcome. Fortunately, if diagnosed early enough and treated properly many of these challenges can be overcome, or eliminated entirely. Nancy Kaufman is a nationally recognized expert in the area of [...]
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Guests
Catherine Lord – PhD, Univ. of Michigan Autism & Communication Disorders (UMACC)
Laura Fitton – Twitter For Dummies, OneForty.com
This was a busy, but exceptionally informative, week on the show where we were fortunately able to land two great interviews that we’ve been working on for some time.
Catherine Lord at the University of Michigan is simply doing [...]
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Valentine’s Day can be rough.
Especially if you forget it.
Or, if you don’t forget it but remember it badly.
For example, your wife / girlfriend doesn’t want a lamp, frying pan or a beautiful new vase …. without the flowers (no matter how nice the vase is).
These are all actual ideas I’ve heard today.
So if you’re scrambling [...]
I might really be about to step in it here but here goes ….
Do we really need school librarians anymore?
In an age where hours of research in old, dusty, musty archival stacks has been replaced by research anywhere, anytime, about anything from a computer or even your phone is the librarian a dying breed?
I’ve got [...]
Three interesting site that I ran across that you might find interesting if …
You (or a loved one) has a lot of pills that they’re dealing with and they get confused.
You find pills in your child’s bag, jacket, etc.
You find some pills in your bathroom cabinet, travel bag, etc. and you’ve got some questions about [...]
I came across this biting criticism of charter schools and children with disabilities recently on the Education Week website. The part that caught my attention was that the editorial was written by the former Director of The US Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs under former President Bill Clinton. It’s not uncommon to see [...]
How cool is this?
The world’s longest married couple (104 & 102 year old – Herbert & Zelmyra Fisher) will be answering your romance questions on Valentine’s Day on TWITTER (and you thought you were too old to get into that Twitter thing).
Interested in checking it out? Follow them on Twitter at @longestmarried
The couple, who enjoy [...]
Some great ideas from this article on TeacherHub on how to use the Olympics as a learning opportunity. Many of them are also great ways to get your kids more interested in and excited about following the Olympics.
My favorite idea … the Olympics pool / fantasy team.
The target is classroom teachers but there’s no reason [...]
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