by Steve on 26, February, 2010
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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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 [...]
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 [...]
by Steve on 2, February, 2010
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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by Steve on 6, January, 2010
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 [...]
by Steve on 15, November, 2009
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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by Steve on 30, October, 2009
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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by Steve on 23, October, 2009
“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 [...]
by Steve on 21, October, 2009
These books are all good, quality reads and good candidates for your personal library ….
Amazon.com Widgets
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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by Steve on 14, September, 2009
Additional ads #2 – Bedtime Ad - and #3 – Bathtime Ad
by Steve on 14, September, 2009
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.
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 [...]
by Steve on 9, April, 2009
Genocide seem like a strong word to use? You may not think so after reading the full story.