Category Archives: #BetterTogether

Need To Know

Posted on January 18, 2021 by paraeducate

We had thought about taking this week off and then we thought better of it. The observed holiday of Martin Luther King Jr Day is a pretty important day, not just because of his ideals that he shared on the … Continue reading →

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We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Blog Post

Posted on September 21, 2020 by paraeducate

For a few years now we’ve wanted to do a historical perspective of special education. And for a few years now, we’ve started but then things get murky with the time line or we get super busy, or things happen … Continue reading →

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Boots In the Cloud

Posted on April 27, 2020 by paraeducate

For two weeks now since we’ve been on Spring Break, Renay has helped to orchestrate small segments of online education. To be fair, she also categorizes this version of online education like many have but calling it “crisis education”. Some … Continue reading →

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How Far I [Should] Go

Posted on April 6, 2020 by paraeducate

Renay is technically on spring break, however, ParaEducate is not. The question we keep getting is what should a paraeducator do on digital learning? For distance learning, every platform is different, and then there is the question of equity. While … Continue reading →

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From A Distance

Posted on March 30, 2020 by paraeducate

Renay was really wrapped up last week with last-minute meetings. Like many other public school campuses across the country, Renay’s campus is becoming a distance learning model for the time being. There are a few things that have happened in … Continue reading →

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Recap of Cal-TASH 2020

Posted on March 9, 2020 by paraeducate

Something this year was different. Maybe it was the fact that Renay had several professional contacts this year, more so than last year. Or maybe it was the fact that everything in the United States right at this moment is … 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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The Magic of Every Day

Posted on December 19, 2019 by paraeducate

References to magic makes us feel closer to Beth Foraker and the National Catholic Board on Full Inclusion. But that’s not the type of magic we’re thinking about today. We’re moving beyond the call fo kindness today. We want to … 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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Copy, Paste, Repeat

Posted on October 24, 2019 by paraeducate

Renay is off in a corner making up a math project that she thinks may work for something she will share soon. But how busy she has been has made us appreciate something more this week. There are many things … Continue reading →

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