Michael B. Horn, co-author of “Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns” will be our guest on this week’s “My Great Kid Radio Program”. Here’s some links to check out if you’d like to learn more about Mr. Horn and the book before the interview… Download an excerpt from the [...]
Education
Proper grammar, spelling, punctuation and the ability to compose a coherent written sentence ….. should any of these be part of the job requirements to be a school board president? Do DPS control the Foundation or outside group? If an outside group control the foundation, then what is DPS Board row with selection of is [...]
Our Guest: Sir Ken Robinson, Expert on Creativity, Education & Human Potential Listen to our interview with Sir Ken ~ HERE (or visit the link on the bottom of this post to listen and download the interview) We live in a country with a broken educational system. Now, factions on all sides of the issue [...]
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“Well, you’re the teacher aren’t you suppose to be able to find a way to ….. teach it to him?” I love this clip. I love it not only because I’ve felt this way in so many meetings but also because it’s a good portrayal of an educational culture that is, in many cases, broken. [...]
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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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 [...]
This one makes me furious! The idiots in the Polk county Florida school district came up with an idea to use part of their special education IDEA money on the purchase of IPOD Nano’s to be given away to special education parents who filled out a survey. The point of the survey was to evaluate [...]
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 In an age where hours of research in old, dusty, musty archival stacks has been replaced by research anywhere, anytime, about anything from a computer or even your phone is the librarian a dying [...]
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 [...]
You’ve probably heard a lot about the study that came out recently about the amount of time that kids 8-18 are consuming electronic media. I’m reading the full study now and will probably comment on it later but wanted to share this PDF summary presentation from the study. Interesting stuff (especially if like me, you [...]
Itchy tags. Doesn’t like socks. Won’t sit still. Always fidgeting and moving around. Sensitive to sounds. Sensitive to light. Difficult time properly using pens, pencils, etc. Could it be you’ve got an Out-Of-Sync child? These days it seems like there’s a condition for everything under the sun. If your child (or you even) does anything [...]
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I’ve got to admit these stories always make me cringe a little bit. I like stories about kids that achieve, but am always concerned when it involves kids with challenges because the skeptic in me wonders are they using the kid as a mascot and not a player …. this isn’t one of those [...]
Interesting graph that shows …. well, here check it out for yourself. Where are all the students going? Nobody’s probably surprised that Detroit lost so many students. What may be a bit more surprising is that the region itself lost roughly 15,000 students.
You can see the commercials now …… stuck in the rubble? There’s an app for that …. literally. This guy’s iPhone saved his life in the Haiti earthquake but not the way you’d expect. There’s also a touching moment in the video when he discusses part of what was going through his mind as he was [...]
You Missed A Show? Missed a show? How could you? Okay, besides you have a family and the show is on early Sunday mornings. Then here’s your chance to catch up. I’ll be posting full breakouts of all the shows we did in 2009 but in the meantime check out any of the shows that [...]
We spoke with Barabara Coloroso about her book “The Bully, The Bullied and the Bystander”. We first came across her in the Costco Connection magazine, believe it or not, and thought she had some good information and good approaches. Coincidentally enough in the last couple of months we’d had a couple of parents talk to us [...]
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