If there’s one thing educators love even more than reflection, it’s ice breakers. The first week back is full of “getting to know you activities”…
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Class List? Check. Office Max trip? Check.New lunchbox? Check.Systematic Classroom Management Plan designed to set the stage for the whole year? Um….. I have been…
Read MoreBack to School- Right on Target
I have so many mixed emotions about returning to the school district next week. On the one hand, I will have to give up my…
Read MoreThe Wackness in Education
I love independent films. I went to one last night called “The Wackness” about a drug dealer kid in NYC in 1994, who falls in…
Read MoreFind Your Path
I love educational psychology conferences. I love the big fat program with 10 million presentations on some obscure facet of learning that I can file…
Read MoreNFTSP Spam-Fest!
I don’t know if anyone else who subscribes to my blog got spammed this morning, but I sure did. Yes, I subscribe to my own…
Read MoreReflecting on the Reflection of My Reflection
Anyone who has been through graduate school in psychology or education knows that the standard pedagogical practice in most classes is to reflect on what…
Read MorePsychoeducational Part VI – Visual Processing
I see a group of fuzzy hairs attached to a medium sized four-legged creature. A large pink object attached to a smaller portion of the…
Read MoreResource BONANZA
Dear Special Education Teachers, I hope you are all taking time off this summer to rest, relax, and rejuvenate. You should be sipping something out…
Read MoreWorth a Whole Post
After my last post about how movies portray urban education, Christina emailed a link to a MAD TV clip that made me laugh out loud….
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