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Excellent Free STEM Strategies from TGR Foundation and Discovery

The CoolCatTeacher

They encourage self-advocacy skills and foster a growth mindset through t heir award-winning STEM curricula, college-access programs , along with a digital platform for educator professional learning. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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When Parents Should Call an IEP Meeting

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Maybe you can catch them after school to set up a meeting. Consider calling an IEP meeting. If you’re still worried after you’ve talked with your child’s teacher (and/or IEP case manager), you can call an IEP meeting. It is best to send your request for the IEP meeting in writing. Connect with the teacher.

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As more youth struggle with behavior and traditional supports fall short, clinicians are partnering with lawyers to help

The Hechinger Report

Kathryn Meyer, left, attorney at the Center for Children’s Advocacy, and Christiana Mills, are part of the Yale Child Student Center in New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Barry Zuckerman, who created the first medical-legal partnership in Boston more than 30 years ago, saw the need for family advocacy first hand during his childhood, in the 1950s.

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Technology Made Special Education Parents Better Advocates During the Pandemic

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If you don’t have good communication, that partnership really breaks down,” she says, referring specifically to parents and educators. “A They may not want to come into a whole IEP meeting and sit there, for various reasons, in person,” she says. but ‘How are you today?’” Schools that took that time were great.”

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The quest for ‘embodied equity’ on college campuses focuses on neurodivergent students

The Hechinger Report

Elliott is what’s now called twice exceptional , a term used to refer to children who are gifted in some areas, but also experience a learning or developmental challenge. When she got to college, where classes were much more difficult, she said, “I really had a big crash and burn.”

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Nine New Lawsuits Target ?Inclusive Access? Textbook Programs, Alleging Antitrust Violations

Edsurge

Nine lawsuits filed in March, April and May against major textbook companies and retailers take aim at their bulk deals with colleges to offer online course materials, sometimes referred to as “inclusive access” programs. And in February, nonprofit advocacy organization U.S. That’s what ultimately will drive the prices down.”

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Lost in translation: Parents of special ed students who don’t speak English often left in the dark

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in The Seattle Times For years, she sat through meetings with her son’s special education teachers, struggling to maintain a smile as she understood little of what they said. Mireya Barrera, left, spent years struggling to understand her son Ian’s teachers in special education meetings without a Spanish interpreter.

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