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Self Determination self advocacy self determination transition Oct 02, 2021

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...

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Tips 4 Teens With IEP's Sep 24, 2021

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...

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Tools for Transition Sep 18, 2021

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...

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Person Centered Planning II Sep 11, 2021

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...

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Person Centered Planning person centered planning Sep 11, 2021

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
  • ...
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Tips 4 Teens Stand Up 4 You Aug 28, 2021

 

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 ...

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GIFTED IEP accommodations advocacy gifted iep development Jan 18, 2021

GIFTED IEP DEVELOPMENT FOR

Professional Education Advocates

Learn effective and professional IEP development approaches.

Discover other's errors in approach and transform a student's life!

Improve YOUR Professional Education Advocacy Skills Now!

 

A gifted student’s identified educational ne...

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INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM IN GIFTED PROGRAMS discrimination gifted education twice exceptional Jan 16, 2021

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...

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THINGS YOU DID NOT KNOW ABOUT GIFTED STUDENTS behavior evaluations gifted education twice exceptional 2e Jan 11, 2021

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...

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GIFTED STUDENTS LEARN DIFFERENTLY discrimination gifted education Jan 09, 2021


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
  • ...
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HOW DO I KNOW MY CHILD IS GIFTED? characteristics of gifted students definition of gifted gifted identification twice exceptional Jan 04, 2021

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,...

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THE STATE OF GIFTED EDUCATION gifted education gifted iep Jan 02, 2021

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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