Category Archives: Special Education Teachers

Recap #caltash2018

Posted on March 8, 2018 by paraeducate

Cal-TASH is home. Six years ago, Renay and Megan introduced ParaEducate to a Cal-TASH audience. So having skipped last year in favor of SXSWEdu 2017, we were glad to be back with a very familiar venue and familiar faces. One … Continue reading →

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Dear General Education Teacher…

Posted on December 14, 2017 by paraeducate

One might consider we are posting this so late. After all, this would be a wonderful letter for the Beginning of the Year series. But we met a series of recently hired folks and we thought we’d share this now … Continue reading →

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Process of Modifying or Adapting a Test

Posted on October 12, 2017 by paraeducate

If you haven’t had a test by now in a general education class, we kinda wish we were you honestly. Tests happen. They are a fact of school. Whether they’re called ‘assessments’, ‘quizzes’, or something else to decrease stress, it’s … Continue reading →

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Skills that All Paraeducators Need

Posted on September 28, 2017 by paraeducate

It doesn’t matter if you work with preschool students or high school students: most paraeducators work for the district not their campus, and not the families of the student. At a moment’s notice, you could be working with kindergartners or … Continue reading →

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Settling in For the Marathon

Posted on September 14, 2017 by paraeducate

Those initial days when you were trying to figure out how to deal with behaviors, social anxiety, and you’re perhaps making a dent in decision making for academic adaptations. It’s the pattern of enforcing preferred behaviors, modeling academics, keeping track … Continue reading →

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We Know The Way (To End A Year)

Posted on May 25, 2017 by paraeducate

  It’s been an incredible year for ParaEducate and we love sharing our year with you. Our yearly blog started on August 18, 2016. We addressed students in a letter We looked at staff and asked them to stand hard … Continue reading →

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The Spring Time Slide

Posted on March 16, 2017 by paraeducate

It was Alfred Lord Tennyson who noticed that spring time shifts thoughts. And in school, no matter how many of inches of snow or sleet stand between students and the outside, spring changes the tenor of campus. It’s not just … Continue reading →

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The Value of Time

Posted on March 2, 2017 by paraeducate

Two weeks ago, Renay took a gamble on something in her personal life and wrote up a personal statement and submitted it to a committee for evaluation. She figured in the end, the worse the committee would say would be, … Continue reading →

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National Inclusive Schools Week #BetterTogether

Posted on December 8, 2016 by paraeducate

While the week is winding down from National Inclusive Schools Week, we still could not take the opportunity pass up a chance to talk about Inclusive Schools. On the whole, Inclusive Schools are schools that offer the opportunity for students … Continue reading →

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What would Inclusion Be Without a Paraeducator?

Posted on November 10, 2016 by paraeducate

This week, Renay was mostly out due to illness. But it reminded us of a constant idly threat that sometimes is tossed around: what would inclusion be without a paraeducator? Actually, sometimes inclusion is actually more possible without a paraeducator. … Continue reading →

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