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Dashonera Crawley
Aug 15, 202314 min
You Don't Really Expect Me to Sign That, Do You?
The following are examples of what educational needs, Specialized Direction Instruction (SDI), and goals could look like for a scholar...
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Dashonera Crawley
Aug 1, 20233 min
Tuesday's Tip: Reading Is Essential
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...
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Dashonera Crawley
Jul 18, 20233 min
Tuesday's Tip: Gifted Education
UNDERFUNDED AND INAPPROPRIATELY ADMINISTERED Gifted scholars come from all economic, racial, ethnic, and cultural populations and...
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Dashonera Crawley
Jul 4, 20232 min
Tuesday's Tip: Institutionalize Racism in Gifted Programs
Gifted Program Funding & Administration Are Forms of Institutionalized Racism In education, giftedness has become a form of white...
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Dashonera Crawley
Jun 20, 20234 min
Tuesday's Tip: THINGS YOU DID NOT KNOW ABOUT GIFTED SCHOLARS
Gifted Scholars Need Support Gifted scholars need supports just like musicians and athletes. They need to be guided by teachers who are...
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Dashonera Crawley
Jun 6, 20232 min
Tuesday's Tip: Gifted Scholars Learn Differently
Gifted scholars learn differently and require special education supports in order to grow academically and achieve their potential. This...
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Dashonera Crawley
May 23, 20233 min
Tuesday's Tip: How Do I Know My Child Is Gifted?
In my experience, there is not a grandparent in the world who is not convinced that their grandchildren are gifted. To listen to them,...
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Dashonera Crawley
May 9, 20233 min
Tuesday's Tip: 504's & ADA Do Not = IDEA
Less than 17% of scholars eligible for accommodations in post-secondary programs, will access them once they enter into a college or a...
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Dashonera Crawley
Apr 25, 20234 min
Tuesday's Tip: High School to College - IEPs are not 504s
The transition from high school to college is usually difficult for most SCHOLARS because many of the rules have changed. In addition,...
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Dashonera Crawley
Apr 11, 20232 min
Tuesday's Tip: Transition Planning - Assessments Come First
As our scholars start to transition from middle to high school and high school to life beyond it is important that parents and scholars...
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Dashonera Crawley
Mar 14, 20237 min
Do You Speak the Special Education Language
Special Education Acronyms and Terms As a parent have you ever wondered why the educators and others on the team speak using so many...
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Dashonera Crawley
Feb 28, 20235 min
Tuesday’s Tip: No Water Walking but I Do Work to Move Mountains
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,...
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Dashonera Crawley
Feb 14, 20234 min
Advocates are there to help you Say What You Want!
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...
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Dashonera Crawley
Jan 31, 20233 min
Tuesday's Tip: Advocate or Lawyer? How To Decide
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...
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Dashonera Crawley
Jan 17, 20232 min
Executive Functioning
When does Executive Function Develop? Executive function emerges during preschool and develops in correlation with frontal lobe...
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Dashonera Crawley
Sep 27, 20222 min
Tuesday's Tip: Questions You Should Ask AT Your Scholar's IEP Meeting
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...
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Dashonera Crawley
Sep 13, 20224 min
Tuesday's Tip: How To Right An IEP Goal
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...
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Dashonera Crawley
Aug 30, 20222 min
Tuesday's Tip: Smarter Goal - Research-Based Programming
So why the emphasis on research/evidence based methods or programs? If you google something like "teach phonics step by step" you will...
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Dashonera Crawley
Aug 16, 20222 min
Tuesday's Tip: Smarter Goals -Evaluation
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...
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