This is a discussion of the book Autism & Education: The Way I See It: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know by Temple Grandin (2022) and how we see its ideas interacting with our practices. This is part one where we discuss the first chapter of the book.

References:

How can I talk if My Lips Don't Move by Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay

Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism by Naoki Higashida

This is a discussion of the book Six Shift to Improve Special Education and Other Interventions: A Commonsense Approach for School Leaders by Nathan Levenson (2020) and how we see its ideas interacting with our practices. This is part four where we discuss the fifth and sixth shifts in the book: From One Good Schedule to Many Great Schedules and From Managing Compliance to Managing Practice, Too.

This is a discussion of the book Six Shift to Improve Special Education and Other Interventions: A Commonsense Approach for School Leaders by Nathan Levenson (2020) and how we see its ideas interacting with our practices. This is part three where we discuss the fourth shift in the book: from deterrence to prevention to better address social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) needs.

Intervention resources discussed:

https://casel.org/

https://www.pbisworld.com/

https://www.interventioncentral.org/

Report writing tool: theformtool.com

This is a discussion of the book Six Shift to Improve Special Education and Other Interventions: A Commonsense Approach for School Leaders by Nathan Levenson (2020) and how we see its ideas interacting with our practices. This is part two where we discuss the second and third shifts in the book: from more adults to more time and from generalists to specialists

This is a discussion of the book Six Shift to Improve Special Education and Other Interventions: A Commonsense Approach for School Leaders by Nathan Levenson (2020) and how we see its ideas interacting with our practices. This is part one where we discuss the first shift in the book.

This episode explores the implications for practicing speducators of this 1993 third circuit court cases and its findings related to Least Restrictive Environment (LRE).

Case Documents

Ed Week Analysis

Whitted Takiff Analysis

This episode discusses what we actually learn from evaluations and to make them more efficient and meaningful.

Resources

• IDEA: Evaluations
• Intervention Central RIOT-ICEL Matrix
• Review of Existing Data Template
• Review of Existing Data Template/Guidance