People are popping up all over with great examples of what a self-contained classroom can look like during the global pandemic. Michelle Clark from Powhatan, Virginia, ran a summer school program and created a number of creative ways for students to connect …
If you find yourself staring blankly off into space because you can’t even imagine where to begin with setting up your classroom, it is ok, you are not alone. From what the experts (other teachers who have already set up their rooms) have taught us, it is clear that it …
Whenever it is that your students return for in-person instruction, one significant change they will have to adapt to is the number of people wearing masks. While wearing a mask is an important skill to teach your students, teaching them about the world of mask wearing is a completely …
Setting and up and running a self-contained classroom during COVID-19 brings about a number of complicated logistics that can quickly start to make your head spin. When you boil it down, we are really just trying to maximize safety while students are able to benefit from in-person instruction once again. …
Special education teachers, let’s be honest, this is not the great summer of 2020 any of us had envisioned. Though you may not be at work, you can’t escape it. You …
While wearing a mask is not a skill we have traditionally taught our children, we can still teach it the same way we would any other skill. Since this is a routine that is unfamiliar and potentially uncomfortable for a child with a disability, you will need to keep it …
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,
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 …
