Crisis schooling exhaustion is real.
It's not just you, your routine (or lack of routine) or something that you can just figure out and then it goes away.
Think back to when you've had other changes in your life forced into your daily routines.
Maybe it was a move, a marriage, a divorce, a death,...
Should we really be following our state recommended "distance learning" minutes? Probably not.
Our reality in our special needs community is that we don't take breaks from learning in the same way as others.
Our "recommended minutes" for learning will never be less because we are always...
There are always debates happening in special education and with the current pandemic, the arguments are getting louder and louder.
I'm going to skip over the obvious frustration of what's going to happen when we get back into school. Compensatory education? ESY? We will have plenty of time to...
"It would be foolish to assume that services written for a school setting could be done at home with the same intensity, but that IEP paperwork we worked so hard to create doesn't have a clause to adapt for what is happening right now during the Covid Crisis... which is where the bad advice...
When you've been in the Special Education community for over 20 years, you know when something big is brewing. You can feel it in your bones. You can see the lawyers starting to try and get ahead of what's coming and then comes the parent advocacy groups marching right behind.
Now, don't get...
Alyssa is a Special Education teacher who knows her stuff when it comes to setting up students for success.
If you've never heard of Errorless Learning before, lean in and listen... it's perfect ALL the time, but especially awesome during this time of distance learning during the crisis.
...Participating in a Virtual IEP meeting takes more than just logging in and hoping everything goes OK.
Watch this video to find out:
- 3 things you must do before the meeting
- 1 way to help every parent have a voice
- Why follow up matters more than ever
Nobody wants a rush of IEP meetings when we...
Parents and Teachers... look at these minutes recommended by the Illinois State Board of Ed.
Give yourself grace. Kids aren’t supposed to work for 6 hours at home. Your goal is NOT to replicate school at home.
Your goal is to care for a child as a whole person first and then facilitate...
Schools are shut down and IEP teams are in a panic of how to help students with IEPs.
After weeks of trying to use every resource at their fingertips, it's becoming clear that there is a HUGE resource that is being underutilized. Paraprofessionals!
Every person on the IEP team from teachers...
What was appropriate before may never be appropriate again in your child/student's IEP. Listen in and then join me to become a Master IEP Coach® at www.masterIEPcoach.com
