by Andrea Payne | May 12, 2021 | Fresh Ideas
Last year, districts scrambled mid-pandemic to create or update their special education operating procedures to submit to the Texas Education Agency by October 31. The effort would help districts comply with IDEA 34 C.F.R. §§300.201 (2020) in providing for the...
by Andrea Payne | Dec 3, 2020 | Fresh Ideas
Linda Tutt High School in Sanger, Texas, has opened a grocery store. This in itself is laudable for providing a needed resource for food insecure families, but it also remarkable for empowering students with the ability to help with their families’ basic needs. But...
by Andrea Payne | Aug 26, 2020 | Fresh Ideas
PresenceLearning: Offering guidance and support as you adapt your service delivery model to provide services to students at home. Read on for more about their free webinars! What a challenging time this is—for districts and schools, teachers, SLPs and OTs, school...
by Andrea Payne | May 26, 2020 | Fresh Ideas
This strange school year is drawing to a close. There are many unknowns about what August will look like when students ostensibly go back to school campuses, but kids and their parents may still be reeling from the effects of two to three months of distance learning...
by Andrea Payne | Apr 27, 2020 | Ed311, Fresh Ideas
MTSS/RtI are all about collaborative conversations. We need partnerships to support students—not a separate system but a link connecting all the existing systems. MTSS/RtI is greater than the sum of its parts. Tier 1 is for all students, and it is a constant...
by Andrea Payne | Apr 9, 2020 | Ed311, Fresh Ideas
Cabin fever is beginning to set in, folks. We’re all feeling it, and it’s starting to show. Kids’ emotions are turning into mine fields, and parents might be peering into their handy-dandy-parenting-toolboxes for answers only to find that their supply of...
