Factorials, anaphora, metonymy, stoichiometry, wave oscillation, geometric proofs: there are so many things I kind of remember learning in high school, but to be honest, a lot of them simply don’t apply to my everyday life. Someday, maybe not in …
With the majority of students with IEPs receiving instruction through the general education curriculum, IEP teams must establish how to fairly assess these students. Most students with IEPs will take the same formative and summative assessments students without IEPs take. …
When it comes to reading comprehension, there are so many terms being bandied about out there that sound amazing. “Active reading” is one of them, and like most of these phrases, it’s easy to say but harder to do. What …
Music always has either directly or indirectly reflected the times of the songwriters who have made it. In this way, music has acted as a secondary and even a primary source for historical events and select periods of history. Sometimes …
We live in an incredible era in which many young folks take it upon themselves to do community service, an activity which when I was a kid was more associated with punishment than with choice. Without going into detail, I …
Schools have the responsibility of providing a general education for the students in their charge, but they can do this most effectively when the have the support of parents. Parents typically want to be partners in the education of their …
What is ‘storytelling’? Telling stories, of course. In 2016, there are so many diverse, wonderful and sometimes overwhelming ways to do this. What I want to explore is traditional, oral storytelling, which has been a part of human life since …
As you know by now, things are changing in standardized test land. Along with major content changes to the SAT come revisions to both the SAT and the ACT essays. The information in this post is intended to give you …
Students with disabilities often have only vague notions about the content of their IEPs. Transition interviews too often reveal that many of these students have a weak understanding of the services they receive. Some don’t know why they have IEPs. …
English teachers often worry the novels they’re scheduled to teach will fly over the heads of their students. In some schools, these teachers might have entire classes of students whose reading levels are significantly below grade level. Naturally, this deepens …