I just googled that and found this series from the New York Times. Courts have favored the local school district as the LRE for decades. It takes a whole lot of re-thinking to view the mainstream as the least restrictive … Continue reading →

Please check out this website out for health information. The website is  deafmd.org.   Especially good website for students taking health.

Our students would benefit from Functional Life Skills yet their issues are more language than cognitive.  Thanks E!

These points would make a good anticipation guide: Follow the Link. An important topic- huh?

Blocks one and two – we continue to work on sight word recognition, reading and discussing up coming events.  On May 2nd, students will be either participating in ASL story telling or setting up a snack table.  We are incorporating … Continue reading →

Enter into this contest and tell someone about your experience having been bullied. What happened? Who helped? Who ignored? What can be done to eliminate bullying from schools? http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/07/teen-essay-contest-on-bullying/

Intriguing article about connecting the daily news to the common core standards.  After all what adult doesn’t read the paper?  I hope the art of newspaper reading isn’t fading too far away given access to internet.  When I asked my … Continue reading →

I visited the Deering Life Skills program.  While I think our students would benefit from such an approach, their needs are different.  Simply put-our current crop of students while clearly having challenges in the standard high school-are not part of … Continue reading →

This year I have been especially mindful of my past experiences with disabled children.  I know within the Deaf community-disabled smacks of the medical model.  However, given students I work with, disability seems apt.  Robert Walsh aka Bobby when I … Continue reading →