Tag: Special Education
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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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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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Questions
As I am sitting here waiting for a Zoom meeting with my classmates, I wanted to do a quick reflection of some thoughts that I have regarding the inclusion of students with disabilities into the general education environment. References Mehta, & Aguilera, E. (2020). A critical approach to humanizing pedagogies in online teaching and learning.…
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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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The Illusion of School Choice: ESAs, vouchers, and student rights.
Simply calling something a freedom does not make it so, and the freedoms provided by ESAs are an illusion at best. View post to subscribe to site newsletter.
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Push Among States to Lower Standards for Teacher Certification
Why not do things that would attract more qualified teachers to the schools?
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New Boston Public Schools Contract Creates New Special Education Roles in the District
Boston and the City’s Teachers Union have recently come to a contractual agreement that will go into effect this upcoming school year (2022-2023).View post to subscribe to site newsletter.
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School Polices to Avoid Exclusionary Discipline
Discipline policies should be either created or rewritten at the school in order to articulate and feature a commitment to equity.View post to subscribe to site newsletter.
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