Category Archives: Behavior Strategies

Closer To Where We Started

Posted on March 15, 2021 by paraeducate

Renay is filing away taxes for the businesses, writing partial drafts of multiple blog posts, checking an update on some book drafts, and making an outline of material for upcoming discussions. But in the back of her mind, she’s thinking … Continue reading →

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Eyes On the Prize

Posted on December 7, 2020 by paraeducate

When Renay was in college, sometimes an upper class student would wander by Renay’s desk that first year and whisper, ‘eyes on the prize’. It was an odd mantra to a first year student in architecture whose personal goals were … Continue reading →

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How To Motivate At A Distance

Posted on May 11, 2020 by paraeducate

In other years, when we talk about ‘motivating at a distance’, we are usually talking about a paraeducator being on the other side of the classroom or maybe from another classroom entirely. This is the one time when we might … Continue reading →

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Learning Modifications At A Distance

Posted on May 4, 2020 by paraeducate

Renay is on Week 4 of 8 for modifying and staying on routine to reach out to students at a variety of levels and keep them going through distance learning until the academic year ends. Like many of you, Renay … Continue reading →

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Aftermath

Posted on March 2, 2020 by paraeducate

Before we get too far into this week’s topics, we would like to thank everyone who celebrated with us online for our first eight (two) years. It truly is something we are very proud to have accomplished. We have a … Continue reading →

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Strategies You Didn’t Know You Needed To Know

Posted on February 17, 2020 by paraeducate

Renay was out with her godsons last week. There are a lot of them. Please don’t ask us which ones. But a few of the young men have disabilities. There comes a point in every meeting when one of the … Continue reading →

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Making Connections

Posted on February 3, 2020 by paraeducate

February is a packed month in ParaEducate. There are a lot of things that need our attention at this time of year. Renay just came by with a sticky note of a list of things, but we were not up … Continue reading →

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Just A Little Bit…

Posted on January 27, 2020 by paraeducate

We are being a little bit gentler over at ParaEducate. Renay has been re-learning how to support a campus with death. It was not one but two deaths—a former co-worker and in a separate, unrelated loss, the son of a … Continue reading →

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We’re Back

Posted on January 13, 2020 by paraeducate

We are excited to be back for 2020. And we are now on Monday. Renay will be the first to tell you she does not appreciate the demands that Monday brings. On the other hand, this little experiment may work … Continue reading →

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A Place For Everything And Everything In Its Place

Posted on December 12, 2019 by paraeducate

If you saw the ParaEducate office, you’d be hard pressed to believe that Renay knows exactly where everything in the office. Except the double stick tape right now. Renay does admit to over stacking, but she knows where the piles … Continue reading →

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