What a good IEP meeting actually sounds like
Most families leave an IEP meeting having agreed to something they did not fully understand. Not because anyone misled them — because the meeting was built to move through a document, not…
Read the postWriting
Blog
Showing 5 posts
Five ways to make one lesson work for the whole class
Universal Design for Learning gets taught as theory and then abandoned at the planning stage. These five changes each take under ten minutes and survive contact with a real timetable. None of…
Read the postExecutive function isn’t motivation
A student who cannot start the assignment is not refusing to start it. The two look identical from the front of the room and need opposite responses. Task initiation is a skill.…
Read the postReading with a student who has decided they cannot read
By grade four, the belief is usually a bigger obstacle than the decoding. Here is how I spend the first six sessions, and why almost none of it is reading.
Read the postLearning English and learning differently at the same time
Schools routinely mistake a language gap for a learning disability, and a learning disability for a language gap. Telling them apart takes evidence from both languages, not just the one being tested.
Read the postTell me about your learner.
Send a short note about what's working, what isn't, and what you've already tried. I reply within two business days.