Classroom teachers tend to offer less help to a student who has a 1-1 paraprofessional. This disrupts the student-teacher relationship and belongingness with friends. There are better paraprofessional models. #LeadInclusion#SpecialEducation#EdChat#UDL#Inclusion
Rita Pierson famously remarked, “children don't learn from people they don't like.” They also don't learn from adults they don’t think like them. How do our words, facial expressions, and body language communicate kindness and caring? #LeadInclusion#EdChat#SEL#Inclusion
Congratulations to all of our Poetry Out Loud Finalists and our 2023 Poet Laureate Ahlam. Incredible work by all. And a special shout out to an awesome intermission performance from our staff Laureate Mr. Milton! #bhschat
Not giving students options for how they show their learning introduces significant barriers to many. HOW you show your learning isn't the same as WHAT you learned. Giving only one way comprises the validity of our #assessment. #LeadInclusion#UDL#EdChat
Intervention is systematically moving a student to mastery on a critical skill using a research-based practice. (Homework help doesn't count.) #LeadInclusion#EdChat#UDL#Inclusion
Students who feel excluded or disliked because of a difference from a majority group live with feelings of stress. This slow-burning stress over time is trauma that takes a toll a person’s health and wellbeing. #LeadInclusion#SEL#EdChat#Inclusion
The math standards are paired with the 8 mathematical practices. Students should ALWAYS be engaged in AT LEAST one of these practices.
It is not uncommon that a math worksheet has zero of these.
Do our rubrics include many phrases about what students DON’T do? This is a deficit model. Our rubrics/scales should be seen as progressions from the beginning to the target. Talk about what they DID DO in each cell. #LeadInclusion#EdChat#UDL#UDLchat#Inclusion#EdLeadership
When there are fractures in Tier 1, lots of students “look like” they need Tier 2 or 3 interventions, but in fact the “intervention” should target improving Tier 1.