Month: May 2024

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Month: May 2024

Battling the System’s Culture of Low Expectations
May 21, 2024 Hello world stacey

Many, and I would venture to guess most, parents don’t understand that when a student spends their school years inside separate special education classrooms, they are not going to have what’s needed to go into a trade school certification program or a college degree-seeking program. Yes, there are “special programs” in some tech schools and

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Ugh! Standardized Tests! Now What?
May 14, 2024 Advocacy stacey

We are in the height of testing season. It seems like every school I walk into, all I hear is chatter about the FAST, STAR and I-ready. It’s so sad that the education of children has been hijacked by standardized tests. Be that as it may, testing is nothing new; even when I was in

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Mammas Need Reminders Too!
May 7, 2024 Advocacy stacey

How often do you run around reminding your kids, and your spouse or significant other, of all the things that need to take place within each 24-hour cycle? As moms, we have a tendency to be the person in the home who manages the lives of everyone else who lives under the same roof. For

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