Aug 04
Monster, by Walter Dean Myers, is a text frequently read in middle school about a 16-year-old boy on trial and facing a life sentence. Because it has a Lexile score of 670L, students at the middle school level can read the text. This actually makes it perfect for my special education students (and sometimes standard …
Apr 25
Feeling like an overpaid teacher’s assistant in your new role as a special education teacher in a co-taught class? It’s not just you; co-teaching is taking the difficult task of teaching to a whole new level. It took me years to come out from the teacher’s assistant shadow even though I’ve always been proficient when …
Apr 13
Student-led IEP meetings are the latest craze in special education. Unfortunately, it’s leaving a lot of special educators overwhelmed. We’re already overworked. How are we going to coach struggling students on how to run an IEP meeting on top of all our other responsibilities? Don’t get me wrong, in theory and in practice this sounds …
