Family Relationship IEP Tips

Posted by Apr 20, 2016 Families, IEPs ,

Let’s face it. Our students’ parents pretty much have PTSD by the time these kids are in high school. They’ve spent the last 15 years or so gulping down lungfuls of air between ocean waves, and they’re more or less exhausted. For a lot of families, the ugly reality that their soon-to-be-adult children aren’t likely […]

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Mondays.

Posted by Apr 12, 2016 Uncategorized , , ,

I don’t know a lot of teachers (or people in any other line of work) who particularly enjoy the sound of an alarm clock going off at 5:30am on a Monday morning, heralding in the new work week like a screeching choir of harpies. However, the EDBD teacher’s Monday is a special circle of Hell, […]

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“In 36 Instructional Weeks”—A Phrase I Hate

Posted by Apr 10, 2016 IEPs ,

If you take nothing else from my website, take this. My personal pet peeve? The phrase “In 36 instructional weeks.” I hate that. It’s pretentious and gives parents no idea when they can expect to receive formal progress monitoring. In my district, we present formal progress monitoring at the end of each 9-week grading period. […]

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