Category Archives: #kindness

I’ll Be Here Every Step

Posted on October 10, 2022 by paraeducate

It is now officially the point in the academic year where there is no turning back. Hopefully your campus is constantly addressing the rules and holding those students accountable to get them back on track for the entire campus. Struggling … Continue reading →

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What You Don’t Have, What You Don’t Know

Posted on August 8, 2022 by paraeducate

The school year is about to start. The school items have been on sale for the time being. We have been all too aware that families are struggling financially, and we know that many more students will likely walk through … Continue reading →

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On Repeat

Posted on February 7, 2022 by paraeducate

If we had a dollar for every time we heard “..but they’ll get noting from [that].”, ParaEducate would easily be traded publically. The expression comes from the belief some people, and then even a subset of people with disabilities, have … Continue reading →

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Where Did You Go?

Posted on January 3, 2022 by paraeducate

We entirely missed the month of December. But not truly on purpose. Renay has been dealing with a family issue that will not be easily resolved in the coming future but for now, it has meant we skipped our December … Continue reading →

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We All Fall Down…

Posted on October 4, 2021 by paraeducate

If you missed the headline, after seventeen years of working in secondary, Renay was assigned to work elementary this year. Despite the fact that the majority of the students Renay has been working with are just smaller than students she … Continue reading →

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Can You Teach Me About Tomorrow?

Posted on April 19, 2021 by paraeducate

Renay told us the first words out of the gate: the weekend was not awesome. It wasn’t just exhaustion related to doing hybrid. It was a series of local deaths that have compounded this weekend. And they were students Renay … Continue reading →

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Where Did You Go?

Posted on April 13, 2021 by paraeducate

Admittedly things were a bit unusual yesterday at ParaEducate. Renay was back dealing with a hybrid schedule with students and well, Monday got eaten up. So we post on a Tuesday. To give you a little perspective of how quickly … Continue reading →

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Hard. Good. Essential

Posted on November 9, 2020 by paraeducate

It probably should not be a surprise that Renay was riveted to the television, like generations before her for the moon landing, for the Challenger Explosion, September 11th. And now, a presidential election that has broken a glass ceiling– a … Continue reading →

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October Is Hard. October Distance Learning is Harder.

Posted on September 28, 2020 by paraeducate

Renay admitted this week, she is a little sick of hearing her coworkers ask when we will ‘return’. But this got us thinking. This last week had not gone according to anyone’s plan. First there was an internet provider outage. … Continue reading →

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It Is Political, But Not In The Way You Think

Posted on June 1, 2020 by paraeducate

We had no intention of returning this quickly. But as a company, we cannot ignore the simple fact that the rise of violence lately in the United States is running rampant. We recognize that our readers are probably exhausted by … Continue reading →

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