From the category archives:

Education Law

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 [...]

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IDEA Money To Buy Parents IPODS?

by Steve on 11, February, 2010

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 how the [...]

Olympic Learning Lessons

by Steve on 9, February, 2010

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 [...]

We had the great honor on October 25th of last year to interview Peter Wright from Wrightslaw.
Pete is a pioneer in the area of Special Education Law and truly one of the ultimate child advocates in this country.  We had the joy of being able to host a Wrightslaw conference in 2008 and were stunned [...]

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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 you might have [...]

On Nov. 8th we had the honor of speaking with educational expert, John Taylor Gatto, about the current state of the American educational system.
Some startling (and scary) educational statistics to consider……
1 in 5 American Children Drops Out Of High School
Some schools the graduation rate is only 50% ….. or worse. Some a whole lot worse (Detroit [...]

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On the “My Great Kid” Radio show we had a great interview with Leslie Poston, social media expert and co-author of “Twitter For Dummies”. Leslie not only shared a lot with us about Twitter but also a ton about “social media” in general and what it means both for us as parents but also [...]

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This Sunday, on the “My Great Kid Radio Show” we will be speaking with Leslie Poston, co-author of “Twitter For Dummies and all-around Social Media expert & tech junkie.
Find out more about Leslie here …..

Leslie’s Blog
Leslie Poston (geechee_girl) on Twitter
Leslie Poston – FriendFeed
geechee_girl’s Bookmarks on Delicious (What’s she reading)
Uptown Uncorked (Leslie’s Company)

If you can’t listen [...]

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“Parents will always be catalysts for education reform.”
def: Catalyst: An agent that precipitates -or- accelerates fundamental change

In what is sure to be a phenomenally informative show, this Sunday on the  “My Great Kid” Radio Program (Sunday 8:00am-9:00am, WAAM 1600am or online at www.waamannarbor.com;  A podcast will be posted after the show) we will be interviewing Peter [...]

Looking For Some Good SpEd Reads?

by Steve on 21, October, 2009

These books are all good, quality reads and good candidates for your personal library ….

Amazon.com Widgets

My Great Kid Radio – Swine Flu

by Steve on 13, October, 2009

This week on the My Great Radio Show we focused on the Swine Flu and the new reports showing an increase in Autism. We interviewed Dr. Vicky Debold from the National Vaccine Information Center about the development of the vaccine, it’s safety and the push being put on to vaccinate the nation.

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Great Autism Awareness Ads

by Steve on 14, September, 2009

Additional ads  #2 – Bedtime Ad - and #3 – Bathtime Ad

The (un)Funny Truth About Education?

by Steve on 14, September, 2009

Florida teacher can’t lose her job after abusing students … because she wasn’t properly warned ahead of time.

What Is RSS ?

by Steve on 1, May, 2009

Still need more help? No problem, check out these two links below for additional explanations. 
1) Explanation #1 at Pro Blogger
2) Explanation #2 :  Explaining RSS The Oprah Way
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Personal Note:  I currently use Google Reader and love it.  At last count I was  subscribed to about 150 different feeds.  Obviously I don’t have anywhere near enough hours [...]

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