This blog post was written at the invitation of Gerald Aungst, Supervisor of Gifted Education at Cheltenham (PA) School District, and is cross-posted at his blog, Quisitivity. I’m a school psychologist, so my professional life is a minefield of labels and acronyms – FAPE, IEP, SLD, OHI, IDEA, PLAAPF, ICS,…
Category: Reflection
Administrivia
I’m making a bit of a change here on my blog – not a huge one; in fact, a miniscule one, but it’s one I think is important. In the sidebar, I keep a list of the different categories of posts. One of them – Reform – I feel has…
Do Parents Make Better Teachers?
This is bound to make some people angry, but here goes anyway: does becoming parents ourselves make us better teachers? Of course, the first follow-up question is, “what does ‘better’ mean?” I don’t even know if I have an answer to this, but I started thinking about this because in…
Sharing My Career Via Dropbox
On March 7, 2011, I finally did something I have wanted to do for a long time: I made available for download all the materials I developed, adapted, and otherwise used for all the courses I taught over the span of my eight-year career teaching high school English. Why I…
Words Mean Things II
Every so often I come across language used in such a way that makes me wonder what the intent behind the words is. As we all know, sometimes the words said and the message conveyed are two very different things. Recently, my son was playing with one of his birthday…