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…
March 25, 2023
How the “System” Forces Schools into Decisions that Harm Struggling StudentsThe “Groundhog Day” Impact of Fear on Staff Mental Health and Job RetentionDear Colleagues,Introduction Groundhog…
March 11, 2023
Judy Heumann, Special Education’s History of Litigation, and the Continuing Fight:Complacency and Defensiveness Still Stand in the Way of Students with Disabilities’ RightsDear Colleagues,Introduction Last…
February 11, 2023
Was a First Grade Virginia Teacher Shot Because Her Student was Denied Special Education Services?What School Administrators Face that State Departments of Education IgnoreDear Colleagues,Introduction:…
December 21, 2019
Prevention, Disproportionality, Trauma, and Seclusions & RestraintsDear Colleagues,Introduction With the whole New Years thing going on, and our transition into a new decade, I was…
July 27, 2019
Begin with the End in Mind: It’s about Root Causes and Intervention—Not About Policies or PositionsDear Colleagues,Introduction Over the past year (at least), I have…
July 13, 2019
While the Numbers are Important, We Need to Focus on the Reasons and SolutionsDear Colleagues,Introduction Back in March, we wrote a two-part Blog Series on…
March 30, 2019
Call Congress: The Tainting of RtI, PBIS, MTSS, and SELDear Colleagues,Introduction In Poker, a player “doubles down” when they have a losing hand, but they…
March 16, 2019
What State Departments of Education Need to Learn If Using PBIS to “Solve” This ProblemDear Colleagues,Introduction The number of seclusions and restraints in our nation’s…
March 2, 2019
The U.S. Department of Education Keeps Pushing PBIS, but PBIS Ain’t Got Nothing to GiveDear Colleagues,Introduction Seclusions (including isolation) and physical restraints (including mechanical and…