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