Good Morning America: Create Awareness for Phelan-McDermid Syndrome International Awareness Day on October 22 - Sign the Petition! chng.it/ZHfZfcSg via Change.org Joanna Kent

"Outcomes for CA SWD (students with disabilities) were among the lowest in all 50 states." -CA statewide task force. CA also maintains one of the lowest inclusion rates nationally. (and highest caseloads) edpolicyinca.org/publications/w… via PACE

Temple Grandin urges parents and educators to expose children with autism to a range of experiences news.yahoo.com/temple-grandin… via Yahoo

Halloween parade fun 👻

Union Sped Team CareBears: Inclusion Bear, Behavior Bear, Kindness Bear, Sped Funding Bear, and Compliance Bear, Upstander Bear ❤️ and Wylder the Fox

Why some California school districts are changing how students earn grades      edsource.org/?page_id=664226 via EdSource

Shout out to Union’s own Dr. Lauren Barker on her amazing contributions to Dr. Feifer’s new book. The Neuropsychology of Reading Disorders. USDLearns Mary Katayama Sheree Jellinek UnionSDsped

Kids learn as much from guided play as from direct instruction, report finds edsource.org/?page_id=669638 via EdSource

A new study found kids who used one of the world's most widely used reading intervention programs did worse on exams than those who didn't use it — another hit to its credibility after cognitive scientists refuted its central theory. n.pr/3MRnhA2

Trading ‘Please focus’ for ‘How are you?’: A listening strategy that’s helping some teachers improve the classroom experience kqed.org/mindshift/5947…

“With authentic inclusive education, students do not have to ‘fit into’ the preexisting conditions of the class. Rather, the classroom and school environments are designed to provide the supports and structures that every student needs to succeed." #quotes #inclusion

“We don’t always succeed in what we try—certainly not by the world’s standards—but I think you’ll find it’s the willingness to keep trying that matters most.”

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"Fundamentally neurodiversity emphasizes the collective strength inherent in cognitive diversity (Chapman, 2020) and that this strength arises from all kinds of differences, including those associated with autism, ID or language impairment" (Kapp, 2020). frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Why Gen-Ed Teachers Are Essential for Special Education noodle.com/articles/why-g… We are all teachers. Now, let's teach some kids!

Please listen to Emily Hanford's immensely important podcast Sold a Story: features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/. It's the story of how we taught reading wrong for decades to millions of kids bc we believed what was pleasant to believe not what was true about learning.

More than 650 teachers sign a response to the letter about Sold a Story signed by Calkins and other ed professors, authors and curriculum developers last week. "As teachers, we have seen it with our own eyes." righttoreadproject.com/2022/11/30/for…