January 11, 2025
While You Can Write a Student’s Individualized Education Plan. . .It (Legally) Needs to be Acceptable, Actionable, and Appropriate[To listen to a synopsis and analysis…
December 7, 2024
Improving Special Education Services for our Students:What the New Administration Must Do on this 20th Anniversary of IDEA 2004[To listen to a synopsis and analysis…
August 4, 2018
Integrating Successful Research-to-Practice Strategies into the New School Year (Part I of II)Dear Colleagues,Introduction While some of you are starting to “trickle” back to your…
December 23, 2017
Reflections on Policies, Practices, Pronouncements, and ProgressDear Colleagues,IntroductionAs I begin to write this message—at 35,000 feet. . . finally heading home after four weeks of…
July 15, 2017
Building Strong Schools to Strengthen Student Outcomes—A Summer Review of Previous Blogs (III of IV)Dear Colleagues,IntroductionAs our long, hot summer continues, I hope you are…
May 14, 2017
The Endrew F. Decision Re-Defines a “Free Appropriate Public Education" (FAPE) for Students with Disabilities (Part III of III)Dear Colleagues,ForewordOn March 22nd, the Supreme Court…
April 23, 2017
A Multi-Tiered Academic Instruction-to- Intervention Model to Guide Your FAPE Decisions (Part II of III)Dear Colleagues,IntroductionOn March 22nd, the Supreme Court made history by considering…
April 2, 2017
The Endrew F. Decision Re-Defines a “Free Appropriate Public Education" (FAPE) for Students with Disabilities (Part I of III)Dear Colleague,IntroductionOn March 22nd, the Supreme Court…