Category Archives: blog

Changing Tides

Posted on May 13, 2023 by paraeducate

It is the end of Teacher Appreciation Week. And we hope that everyone has had the opportunity to appreciate the fact that teachers on our sites and especially our special education teachers are working to make things work for all … Continue reading →

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Eleven.

Posted on February 28, 2023 by paraeducate

Our anniversaries in the past have been a reminder of all that we have done. Whether it was encapsulated within a year or a promise to keep working through the steps necessary to reach other paraeducators. With a dozen of … Continue reading →

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Don’t Write Us Off Just Yet

Posted on August 1, 2022 by paraeducate

Summer has been flying by. Renay has been preparing a rough draft of the newest book and while we all agree it has been long past time that this book is prepared at least in draft form, we are nowhere … Continue reading →

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Ten.

Posted on February 28, 2022 by paraeducate

Ten years of ParaEducate. Nine books. Eight months of publishing our blog every academic year. Seven appearances at Cal-TASH Conferences. Six continuous years of our blog. Five different conferences. Four different states for conferences. Three projects in progress. Two people … 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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Turn the Lights Out…

Posted on June 7, 2021 by paraeducate

To be honest, the 2020-2021 academic year had a roller coaster that we never could have ever predicted. Some districts are back with masks. Some districts are back without masks. Some districts came back and then had to shutter very … Continue reading →

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Be What Tomorrow Brings

Posted on May 10, 2021 by paraeducate

It just seems like yesterday we were setting up for the first day of school via distance. The world has shifted once again and while the dust has not entirely settled, it is time to start wrapping up and reaching … Continue reading →

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Nine.

Posted on March 1, 2021 by paraeducate

There aren’t a lot of things we can say. To be fair, when we started ParaEducate in 2012, we didn’t look too much further than the book we had written. We had no plans for updates. We had no plans … Continue reading →

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Islands and Connections

Posted on February 22, 2021 by paraeducate

Renay has had a unique professional trajectory. She never really had to work hard to make the roads of connection to help many general education teachers and special education teachers work together. Certainly, there were professional connections that had to … Continue reading →

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Five Hundred Miles …

Posted on February 8, 2021 by paraeducate

One of our favorite things about February are the number of holidays that happen in February. But it is an amazingly packed month of just events that happen. It does seem endless and adding to the fact that February is … Continue reading →

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