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KEYS TO INDEPENDENT LIVING
It can be quite amazing when you have two students with evaluation profiles that are fairly similar yet you can tell that one is going to be able to create a life for themselves while the other seems destined to being maintained in a life that others create for them. Wher...
BULLYING
“STICKS AND STONES MAY BREAK MY BONES, BUT WORDS WILL NEVER HURT ME” is, to say the least, highly inaccurate. In fact, if you are the target of those words it can feel like you are the world’s greatest loser with this great big “L” tattooed on your forehead. You may even start thinking ugl...
TRANSITION PLANNING - ASSESSMENTS COME FIRST
IDEA defines transition as a “results-oriented process” focused on improving academic and functional achievement that supports successful post-secondary training and programs, vocational training, work, independent living, recreation, and inclusion in t...
5 Step Road Map for Person Centered Planning
5 steps that walk you through the entire process of Person Centered Planning. Regardless of the talents available without a plan for the planning, co-ordination and communication breaks down so once again we have a person wanting to be included, to parti...
Life Plan of Possibilities & Discoveries
for Those Who are Disabled.
Person Centered Planning has the goal of allowing a person to move away from a number of obstacles and challenges to participation. It is hoped that PCP can move a person from
- isolation and seclusion to a community presenc ...
SELF ADVOCACY
YOU ARE ALREADY COOL !
I hope you already agree and think you are cool. If not - what is your definition of coolness? Are you someone who looks in the mirror and sees only how too you are? You know, you are too short, too tall, have hair that is too curly, too straight, too any ...
GIFTED IEP DEVELOPMENT FOR
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A gifted student’s identified educational ne...
INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM
WITHIN GIFTED PROGRAMS
Gifted Program Funding & Administration Are Forms of Institutionalized Racism
Gifted education programs often serve as a socially acceptable mask for institutionalized racism. I learned this through my son who was a senior in a top-ranked public h...
THINGS YOU DID NOT KNOW ABOUT GIFTED STUDENTS
Gifted Students Need Support
Gifted students need supports just like musicians and athletes. They need to be guided by teachers who are trained and supported in providing gifted education. The gifted student needs to be continually challenged and sup...
GIFTED STUDENTS LEARN DIFFERENTLY
Gifted students learn differently and require special education supports in order to grow academically and achieve their potential. This includes:
- Appropriate identification
- Academic field exploration with the field and study in-depth learning
- Accelerated ...
HOW DO I KNOW MY CHILD IS GIFTED?
In my experience, there is not a grandparent in the world who is not convinced that their grandchildren are gifted. To listen to them, that giftedness is present in just about 98% of all children born. While such protestations make for great familial comraderie,...
THE STATE OF GIFTED EDUCATION
UNDERFUNDED AND INAPPROPRIATELY ADMINISTERED
Gifted Students come from all economic, racial, ethnic, and cultural populations and constitute 3.2 million school children or 6% of the school population. Gifted students perform at higher levels than their same-aged peer...
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