Our school utilized the Schools Attuned management binder resource to help us in coming up with strategies for students who were sent to the Student Assistance Team. As our school switches over to more research based interventions that must be documented and graphed to show growth or not, we are using the interventions in [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Student Assistance Team
Posted in SA, tagged SAT, Schools Attuned Management, Stengths on June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Schools Attuned Fair
Posted in Schools Attuned Fair, tagged Constructs, Schools Attuned Fair, Third Graders on June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
During our last week of school the third graders put on the Schools Attuned Fair for the upcoming second graders. Although this is usually supposed to be presented to parents, we decided to try something new. We learned about the constructs throughout the year and then spent the last three weeks reveiwing and [...]
Understanding and Accepting
Posted in Demystification, Exams, tagged Exams, Learning Specialist on June 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Last week I completed the exam accommodation schedule for our students at Forman School. It was enlightening to see that students who were once resistant to taking an exam in the library for a distraction free environment or in the computer lab where they would have access to a word processor to compose essays [...]
What’s next?
Posted in College Prep, tagged American with Disabilities Act, College, Education Policy, Neurodevelopmental Functions on June 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As our school year closes and the seniors graduate I ask the question “What’s next for them”. Having been taught to advocate for themselves, and with the majority of them being demystified, I ask if the college world will understand that students with learning disorders still require support. Fortunately the majority of the [...]