This Thursday and Friday, I will be presenting at the New Jersey Education Assocation’s statewide conference in Atlantic City. To be sharing presentation time with folks like Kevin Jarrett and Lisa Thumann is a bit humbling, and if I can get through the whole thing without spilling anything on myself…
Category: Professional Development
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
This summer was a lot of things for me and my family, but “relaxing” was not one of them. With a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old (who’s going on 16) to keep entertained, it felt like the summer was a blur of museum visits, amusement park rides, movies, and trips to…
Mapping Out My Mind
The other night, I got to thinking about some things I’ve got coming up on the horizon, both personal and professional. The funny thing about it was that with each new thought, I came up with another two or three tangentially related things I’d like to accomplish. In a way,…
Open Letter to a New Teacher
The strangest, albeit pretty wonderful, thing happened to me the other day. I was helping clean up from dinner when my cell phone rang. When my wife answered and then handed it to me, the Caller ID gave a Texas number. I know very few people in Texas, and this…
Hello? Is This Thing On?
I’m not normally in the habit of recycling previous posts (especially those barely a month old), but I really need some feedback on this from teachers, CST specialists, parents, administrators, students, consultants – really, any stakeholder in the world of special education. Here’s what I wrote last month: So every…