Empowerment is the process of becoming stronger and more confident in controlling one's life and claiming one's rights. I'm going to give...

The following are examples of what educational needs, Specialized Direction Instruction (SDI), and goals could look like for a scholar...

If you want to survive in America, that is if you want to be able to keep a roof over your head, food on the table, and out of...

UNDERFUNDED AND INAPPROPRIATELY ADMINISTERED Gifted scholars come from all economic, racial, ethnic, and cultural populations and...

Gifted Program Funding & Administration Are Forms of Institutionalized Racism In education, giftedness has become a form of white...

Gifted Scholars Need Support Gifted scholars need supports just like musicians and athletes. They need to be guided by teachers who are...

Gifted scholars learn differently and require special education supports in order to grow academically and achieve their potential. This...

In my experience, there is not a grandparent in the world who is not convinced that their grandchildren are gifted. To listen to them,...

Less than 17% of scholars eligible for accommodations in post-secondary programs, will access them once they enter into a college or a...

The transition from high school to college is usually difficult for most SCHOLARS because many of the rules have changed. In addition,...

As our scholars start to transition from middle to high school and high school to life beyond it is important that parents and scholars...

Special Education Acronyms and Terms As a parent have you ever wondered why the educators and others on the team speak using so many...

Today's tip focuses on the roles of the advocate. This could be the honest request of those parents who have the distinct feeling that,...

Why are advocates there? How should you respond to the statement, we only have 45 minutes. As an advocate, no, covering a 43-page IEP in...

Getting Lost in LD As a parent you make the call, but you are not sure whether you want to hire an advocate or a lawyer. All you know is...

When does Executive Function Develop? Executive function emerges during preschool and develops in correlation with frontal lobe...

If I hear just one more time how cute or how polite my son is I may never recover from the screaming meemies that will immediately...

DEFINING MEASURABLE GOAL COMPONENTS If you have a student with an IEP you have read lots of goals, but do you have any idea about how...

So why the emphasis on research/evidence based methods or programs? If you google something like "teach phonics step by step" you will...

Evaluation of the data must be defined and reviewed by the team with readjustments to the IEP based on that data. If the data is not...