News: Multi-Tiered Systems of Support

While You Can Write a Student’s Individualized Education Plan. . . It (Legally) Needs to be Acceptable, Actionable, and Appropriate

This Blog discusses the needs assessment and budgeting process that districts are currently engaged in, and that must include—based on students’ IEPs—the funding needed for next year’s special educati...

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Education’s 2024 Year in Review: The Themes that Captured Our Time, Attention, Concern, and Consternation

This Blog revisits the 24 Blogs published this year, re-organizing them into four themes as part of an education-focused “Year in Review.” A brief analysis of these themes is provided relative to wher...

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Improving Special Education Services for our Students: What the New Administration Must Do on this 20th Anniversary of IDEA 2004

This Blog uses the 20th anniversary of the signing of the last reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA 2004), and the coming second Trump administration to analyze, cr...

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Breaking Down the Wall Between General and Special Education Teachers in Our Schools: How Organizational Missteps Create Classroom Barriers

This Blog discusses the institutionalized wall between General Education and Special Education Teachers that has existed since Students with Disabilities were fully included in our nation’s public sch...

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Research Teases Out the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences... But Many Educators Still Don’t Understand Social-Emotional Screeners, and the Limitations of ACEs-Only Assessments

Given the school-related challenges since students returned from the pandemic, this Blog discusses (a) the characteristics and concerns with social-emotional screening, and with only using an ACEs too...

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Students' Health, Mental Health, and Well-Being Worsens Over the Past 10 Years: Summary of the August 2024 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Report (Part IV)

Blog summarizes the CDC’s national 2013-2023 Youth Risk Behavior survey results for high school students. Detailing the shaky emotional status of our students, the Blog asserts why students need multi...

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