Monthly Archives: October 2008

Yes you read it right. My students were literally fighting to read to the class. As I mentioned in my earlier posts, I wrote about how I turned a deficit into something positive. Since I didn’t have the required materials (the listening CD), I decided to have them read the Student Anthology. It was so [...] Continue reading →

Since I had to switch to teaching 4th grade, I am, once again, at a disadvantage. I don’t have all of the required materials. However, instead of thinking of it as a deficit or something negative, I choose to think of it as something that I can use to my advantage.
The old way that I [...] Continue reading →

From Lon over on No Limits to Learning.

I don’t even know how I came across this information, but am happy that I did. Reading this information was the validation that I needed to let me know that I am doing the right thing. This is pretty much what I do with my students. Read it and see what you think

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I had so much to do yesterday that I forgot to wish my oldest son a happy birthday. It was his 19th! My how time flies!!!
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Education Week is conducting an Internet-mediated “chat” about adolescents with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders. It is slated for the afternoon of Wednesday, 17 September 2008. Here’s the advertisement:
Adolescents with Behavioral Disorders
When: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., Eastern time.
Where: http://www.edweek-chat.org
Join us for a closer look at the past and future research [...] Continue reading →

From Jim Gerl over on Special Education Law Blog.

From Lon over on No Limits to Learning.

The Screen Actor’s Guild Association has made it possible to have a celebrity read to your child.  The Association has created the Storyline Online website as an “online streaming…

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ADDitude, a magazine about ADD and ADHD (with a nod to Learning Disabilities), is promoting a story it ran 10 years ago about Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps. Here’s some text the folks at ADDitude asked bloggers to run:
According to an interview with ADDitude magazine about his attention deficit, Michael Phelps’ mom Debbie says she [...] Continue reading →