If you were only given six months to live, how would you react? What would you do? Where would you go? Who would you see? These are questions that I personally find myself reflecting on quite often. As many of you know, in 2018 I was unexpectedly diagnosed with cancer. …
School taking place at home can be extremely disruptive for students with disabilities. Many compartmentalize that school is the place for work and home is the place to relax. When those …
1. Education is about each child’s journey. Kids will take you on a long adventure, through the seven layers of the candy cane forest and through …
My friends,
I have just a few updates for you today. I feel like I have been talking way too much about myself this year, so I will keep it short and simple.
My friends,
It has been a long and exhausting journey through six intense rounds of chemotherapy, but I am officially done for now. I am presently recovering at home, anxiously anticipating a scan in the middle of August that will show the results of my treatment. My oncologist believes …
Hello my friends,
I come to you tonight in good spirits and high hopes as I recover from another round of treatment. As many of you are aware by now, earlier this year I was unexpectedly diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Since then I have been doing everything in my …
Dear friends,
On January 31 I was diagnosed with cancer. Specifically, I have Primary Mediastinal Large Diffuse B-Cell Non-Hogkin Lymphoma, stage 2. As a father of three young children and as a husband to an amazing wife, nothing has been more frightening than to learn about this illness in …
Finally, it is here! The big news that I am absolutely thrilled to be sharing with you. No more holding back! The first news is that I actually have quite a bit of news to be sharing with you. It is not just one announcement, but actually four updates …
Lets keep it simple today. Improving classroom climate and your own effectiveness as an educator does not need to be exceedingly complex. Here are five rules for all educators to live by to improve your day to day performance.
If we are not deliberate with how we support students in special education, in trying to help them we unknowingly could be hurting their future. For students who spend most of their day in the general education classroom with a 1:1 paraeducator, there can be a large tendency to …
