August 5, 2023
When High School Students Have Significant Academic Gaps: More Concerns and Common Sense Solutions “When State Policy Undermines Effective School Practice” (Letters to the Editor)Dear…
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:…
July 23, 2022
Should the U.S. Supreme Court Limit the Powers of the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)?How OSEP Has Taken “Liberties” with the Law, and…
October 9, 2021
A Setting is NOT an Intervention: It’s Where the Real Intervention Has the Highest Probability of SuccessIt’s Not WHERE We Put Students and Staff, It’s WHAT We…
July 11, 2020
Institutional Bias, Power-Based Decisions, and Ineffective Practices?Dear Colleagues,Is Institutional Bias Driving the U.S. Department of Education?Friday, July 10, 6:14 AM I rolled over in bed…
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…
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…