In His Own Words
In September many Stories From Schools Arizona bloggers highlighted the roles support professions play in education. (See here, here, here,…
In September many Stories From Schools Arizona bloggers highlighted the roles support professions play in education. (See here, here, here,…
“The Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act” (IDEA) is a law ensuring services to children with disabilities throughout the nation.…
I’m beginning to truly believe that our obsession with “data driven decision making” will end one day. I used the…
Call me crazy, but when I have 40+ students gathered together in my primary classroom for an afterschool club, I…
Paraprofessional: a person whose job is to assist a professional person. Every day, Monday through Friday, school Paraprofessionals report to…
There is research that demonstrates the connection between the physical condition of a school and student attendance and grades. In…
“Don’t smile until December,” a teacher warned me before I started my first year. I tried that on the first…
Patriot Day Today at our school we remembered the first responders who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. We…
The hand that holds mine on our path through life is chapped and cut and burned: the wages, along a…