“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. [...]
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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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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 In an age where hours of research in old, dusty, musty archival stacks has been replaced by research anywhere, anytime, about anything from a computer or even your phone is the librarian a dying [...]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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
We had the great pleasure of interviewing Dr. Charles Fay from the Love and Logic Institute this past weekend. The full interview was longer than what we were able to air on Sunday so we’ve included the full interview above for your listening (and hopefully learning) pleasure. What is the Love and Logic approach to [...]
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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 [...]
Getting organized – your life, your kids, your house, your car, your office, your closet – it shouldn’t really be that hard, should it? Afterall, it’s one of the very first things they start trying to teach us, the very first time we walk into school (coats on your hook, bags and shoes in the [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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 for [...]
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