Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! And a special thank you to my new friends and colleagues as well as the parents and students at my new job!  I feel blessed every day to be working with such wonderful people and to have the privilege of teaching...

Long Version of Story: In what has to be one of the most bizarre things to happen to me yet last night I was mauled in the left hand (at the base of my thumb mostly) by this neighborhood stray cat I pet frequently.  If you have never been bitten,...

Today marks the third birthday of Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs! Whoo-whooo! What started out as a way for this special education teacher to give back (and keep busy during recovery from ankle surgery) has turned into something much,...

The student is accessing a wobble switch at mid-line on her wheelchair tray to activate the Wireless Jelly Bean Switch, which is plugged into the Power Link environmental control unit, which is controlling the power to the juicer. The teacher is...

We have a morning routine that goes something like this: the students gather around the projector for morning meeting and one of my wonderful teaching assistants gathers up a behavior chart, a dry eraser maker, and a huge Time Timer.  She approaches a...