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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Love is our resistance…
Let’s spread some love on 10.2.10.  … Continue reading
Posted in Teachers/ Educators, WTU
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Never Under-estimate where Financial Support will Show up for AT!
From Lon over on No Limits to Learning. I am excited today that I am getting ready to deliver a brand new Dell laptop loaded with Clicker 5 and a new scanner donated for a middle school student I serve. … Continue reading
Posted in AIM, assistive technology, Clicker 5, financial resources
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Never Under-estimate where Financial Support will Show up for AT!
From Lon over on No Limits to Learning. I am excited today that I am getting ready to deliver a brand new Dell laptop loaded with Clicker 5 and a new scanner donated for a middle school student I serve. … Continue reading
Posted in AIM, assistive technology, Clicker 5, financial resources
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living my very own chick flick
When I was younger, I didn’t dream of my wedding, I dreamed of The Man. What would his name be? Had I already met him? Would he be good looking? (As it turns out: Max, No, and Most Definitely).
We’ve been married for eight years now….. and it all started with a nerdy first impression, a cake fight, and the World War 1 Trenches in France. You can read all about it here and find out why both of our fathers were 12 inches away when we had our very first kiss!!
Thanks to Gwen in Love for featuring our love story!
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Precision Teaching conference pending
The 2010 International Precision Teaching Conference will be held in Seattle (WA, US) 4-6 November 2010. Sponsored by the Standard Celeration Society, a group that promotes the use of systematic data collection procedures and objective analysis of inst… Continue reading
Posted in b mod, behavior, behavior analysis, behavior problems, classrooms, Data collection, fundamentals, Increasing responding, instruction, learning, measurement, News, Other Sites, planning, Press, Professional development, Research, schools, Self-management, teacher education, teachers, teaching, Teaching b mod, Training
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Reauthorize JJDPA
The US Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA), which was originally enacted in 1974, provides funding to states that employ practices designed to avoid inappropriate detention and incarceration of youths. Reauthorization of the JJDPA i… Continue reading
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for my next trick, i’ll show them ctrl-alt-delete
Every Tuesday we have a grade level planning meeting after school. I work with the first grade teachers, who are all lovely dears and a whole lot of fun to work with. Their computer skills, however? Not so up-to-date.
So I was showing them how to create a mock district math benchmark test on the computer. A sample test question may have two boxes – some with bunnies, some with dogs, and then they’ll ask you to bubble in which box has a greater number of animals. So I was doing a lot of formatting to get clipart into text boxes and such things as my colleagues looked on.
I didn’t realize just how little they knew about computer stuff until they got ALL EXCITED when I inserted a page break to create another new page (“You mean you can just start a new page whenever you want to?”). And they almost threw a celebration when I showed them Ctrl+A to highlight an entire document!
Who knew it would take so little to make me look so good?
Posted in Classroom Life, Random
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Rechecking Stephen Wiltshire
Some long-time readers will remember that I featured a story about Stephen Wiltshire, a young man from the United Kingdom who, although diagnosed as having Autism, has tremendous facility in drawing (especially landscapes) from memory. I learned from h… Continue reading
If we ignore problems, they don’t go away
Ignoring children’s mental health problems will just make things worse. Left to their own devices, very few kids are likely to work things out independently. And a lot more problems exist than we might like to admit exist. The schools in Virginia… Continue reading