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An Open Letter to Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth
Good evening Senators Durbin and Duckworth, Thank you both for being a voice for Illinois. I am a special education teacher and a doctoral candidate who teaches on the West Side of Chicago. The damage that Elon Musk is doing will be devastating to the West Side Community, and especially my students. People with disabilities…
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Some Thoughts on Cynicism
This is a post that is a little different than things that I have typically done. This, in some ways, is a follow up to my latest post where I briefly discussed the dangers of cynicism in education. Since writing that post, I have been thinking a lot about cynicism and how I see its…
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Cynicsm and Education
It has been a long time since I’ve posted. Work and school have both kept me extremely busy, but now that I’m officially able to start collecting data for my dissertation, suddenly I’m motivated again to get my voice out there. I wanted to share a TikTok from one of my favorite creators on the…
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Update from my Research Project
It has been awhile since I’ve been able to post an update, but I wanted to do one quickly as I have started the first research cycle that will lead to my dissertation. It is a very exciting time for me as I have finally been able to begin interviewing participants in order to better…
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Continuing Thoughts on the Purpose of School
How can we expect students to develop social skills when they are surrounded with students who have difficulty interacting with them?
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What is the Purpose of School?
The most important theme that I found through this assignment is that all of the stakeholders involved in this assignment felt as though school should focus more on developing the “soft skills” (i.e., social skills) as opposed to traditional academics.
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Benefits of Collaboration in Special Education.
Recently, I had the opportunity to collaborate with general educators while writing an IEP for a student on my caseload and I wanted to write about the experience a little. Overall it was a very positive experience and it is something that I hope to be able to do more often going forward.
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The Teacher Shortage and the Working Conditions of Special Educators
While there are still questions regarding the specifics of reported teacher shortage, I believe this is a good time to look into what some researchers have found regarding the working conditions that special educators and what special educators have reported they need to be successfulView post to subscribe to site newsletter.
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