Here are two really FUN Educational sites!
Always Ice Cream
http://always-icecream.com/login
Clever Dragons
http://clever-dragons.com/login
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Always Ice Cream & Clever Dragons FUN Educational websites!
I am a Special Education Advocate and Parent Trainer. A very proud parent to Mark and Mariah. Aunt Nana to many wonderful "Kiddo's" I hold close under my wing! Helping Parents Partner with Teachers. Helping with quality collaboration & communication so our Children with Unique Learning challenges are provided a Solid Education for their Future Success to Live Life Independently.
Monday, May 6, 2013
Mariah's 1st Day in ESE Resource Room for her 6th Grade Access Point Math! They've GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!
Today against my GUT FEELINGS as a mom....
Mariah attended her very 1st day in an ESE RESOURCE ROOM for MATH! The photo's included in today's post below are what Mariah brought home her first day in the 6th GRADE ESE MATH class. This is what they call 6th GRADE ACCESS POINTS?
They've GOT TO BE KIDDING...RIGHT??!
This is so not what she needs to be doing at her Grade Level or for her age!!! She doesn't even have any Math Goals written into her IEP Document anymore and this is what she finally gets "to learn" in the ESE Room?
FAPE at it's Finest!!
Today when I was looking over her NEW ESE Math Classwork she brought home from school, l was talking with Mariah and asked her about these Math Problems. She answered them all correctly just talking to her after school. *I think maybe she was thinking of Multiplication with the 0+1 and the 0+3, because Triple-Digit Multiplication is what she has been working on at home, using a calculator.
My daughter is capable of doing much more than this stuff that came home today, on her 1st day in an ESE Classroom for Math!! This is 6th Grade ACCESS POINTS in Math!?
This is disgusting to me that my daughter's ABILITIES in Math have been WATERED-DOWN to the Kindergarten Level when she is ABLE to do much higher level thinking in Math computations, using a calculator as her accommodation.
She knows how to divide and multiply, how to change fractions into decimals etc. She LOVES Math and using her calculator! She needs those that are in charge of teaching her, to pump it up a notch and TEACH HER higher level math skills that match HER NEEDS, not to an informal assessment that doesn't reflect her True Abilities!
I do not agree with my daughter now being 'taught' such low grade level Math work, when this is nowhere near what 6th GRADE ACCESS POINTS are! This is far below her Math Abilities!!
*ESE FAPE Math is way below her Ability to do Math!
Here is a Sample of the Math Problems Mariah enjoys doing once on a roll of doing them. Once shown HOW TO DO THE PROBLEM and has time to practice and practice a few times how to go about getting the answer, she CAN DO IT! She LOVES Math when she is able to have 'a moment' to be TAUGHT the exact way how to go about getting the answer.
It's predictable....the steps to get the answer!
*Mariah will continue to do Higher Grade Level Math
Problems at Home. That is in the Best Interest for Mariah's Progress in Math.
5th Grade Math Worksheets ~ Great Schools.org
http://www.greatschools.org/worksheets-activities/slideshows/6381-fifth-grade-math-worksheets-slideshow.gs
*ESE FAPE Math is way below her Ability to do Math!
Here is a Sample of the Math Problems Mariah enjoys doing once on a roll of doing them. Once shown HOW TO DO THE PROBLEM and has time to practice and practice a few times how to go about getting the answer, she CAN DO IT! She LOVES Math when she is able to have 'a moment' to be TAUGHT the exact way how to go about getting the answer.
It's predictable....the steps to get the answer!
*Mariah will continue to do Higher Grade Level Math
Problems at Home. That is in the Best Interest for Mariah's Progress in Math.
5th Grade Math Worksheets ~ Great Schools.org
http://www.greatschools.org/worksheets-activities/slideshows/6381-fifth-grade-math-worksheets-slideshow.gs
I am a Special Education Advocate and Parent Trainer. A very proud parent to Mark and Mariah. Aunt Nana to many wonderful "Kiddo's" I hold close under my wing! Helping Parents Partner with Teachers. Helping with quality collaboration & communication so our Children with Unique Learning challenges are provided a Solid Education for their Future Success to Live Life Independently.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Summer ACADEMIC Programs from Broward Public Schools ~ SIGN UP!!
I am a Special Education Advocate and Parent Trainer. A very proud parent to Mark and Mariah. Aunt Nana to many wonderful "Kiddo's" I hold close under my wing! Helping Parents Partner with Teachers. Helping with quality collaboration & communication so our Children with Unique Learning challenges are provided a Solid Education for their Future Success to Live Life Independently.
Monday, April 8, 2013
"Be The One" ~ It Starts with A Voice ~ Starring Lauren Potter
"Be The One" {Music Video} from Life Stage Films on Vimeo.
from It Starts with A Voice - www.itstartswithavoice.com
"Be the One" Written, Recorded, & Produced by Amy & Ben Wright
Starring Lauren Potter
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I am a Special Education Advocate and Parent Trainer. A very proud parent to Mark and Mariah. Aunt Nana to many wonderful "Kiddo's" I hold close under my wing! Helping Parents Partner with Teachers. Helping with quality collaboration & communication so our Children with Unique Learning challenges are provided a Solid Education for their Future Success to Live Life Independently.
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Mariah Speaking before the Florida Senate Education Committee for Inclusion and S.B. 1108 on 3.18.13
Proposed education bill reported favorably out of Fla. Senate committee
See Mariah speaking before the Senate Education Committee 3.18.13
~ Go to 21:07 - 22:57 on the video to see Mariah and the other members of ESE Reform Taskforce of S. Florida. ~
~ Go to 21:07 - 22:57 on the video to see Mariah and the other members of ESE Reform Taskforce of S. Florida. ~
Mariah and I testified before the Florida Senate Education Committee in support of SB 1108. We traveled with the newly formed 45 day old, ESE Reform Taskforce of S. Florida group. A group of parents that drove from South Florida to testify and tell our IEP and Special Education stories to our State Senators on behalf of Senate Bill 1108.
Mariah Harris, a 6th grader attending Parkway Middle School and included in the S.T.E.M. Magnet Program testified and spoke an awesome public speech telling the Florida State Senators why she wants to be "taught to learn and earn a real High School Diploma, because she wants to go to College to be a Vet Tech!"
The Bill passed unanimously with all in favor to pass in a 8-0 vote! This was exciting to be part of and to see Mariah read her speech before live TV and Newspaper Reporters taking notes! Mariah did an awesome job especially for it being her first major public speaking engagement. She was amazing to see her reading her speech! She was a natural public speaker! She enjoyed it and was professional about it!
Two days later House Bill, HB 465 was voted on unanimously 13-0 in favor as well!
THIS is a huge win for PARENTS of children on IEP's!!
This was a life dream for me to see my daughter well on her way to becoming a National Speaker! She is already thinking about her next speech! Her mother couldn't be prouder!
*See Mariah on The Capitol Update from March 18th, 2013. Go to 21:07-22:57 on the Video to hear Sen. Andy Gardiner and Sen. John Thrasher present on S.B. 1108. A small snippet of Mariah's speech will follow.
http://www.wuft.org/news/2013/03/19/proposed-education-bill-reported-favorably-out-of-fla-senate-committee/#.UUpurn9wxSg.gmail
I am a Special Education Advocate and Parent Trainer. A very proud parent to Mark and Mariah. Aunt Nana to many wonderful "Kiddo's" I hold close under my wing! Helping Parents Partner with Teachers. Helping with quality collaboration & communication so our Children with Unique Learning challenges are provided a Solid Education for their Future Success to Live Life Independently.
Saturday, November 17, 2012
"It is critical that the IEP team sees the student's future through both the parents' and the student's eyes."
"It is critical that the IEP team sees the student's future through both the parents' and the student's eyes."
NDSS website
Long-Term Goals: Parents should tell the IEP team that they want to prepare their child to live and work as independently as possible. This means being able to function and behave appropriately in a world of typical peers. The goals on the IEP should reflect the skills necessary to achieve this – both academic and non-academic. Parents acknowledge their high but reasonable expectations and inform the team that they will support them in any way possible. It is critical that the IEP team sees the student's future through both the parents' and the student's eyes.
Implementing Inclusion - National Down Syndrome Society ~ click above highlighted link for the full webpage from NDSS on the benefits of Inclusion for all students.
NDSS website
Long-Term Goals: Parents should tell the IEP team that they want to prepare their child to live and work as independently as possible. This means being able to function and behave appropriately in a world of typical peers. The goals on the IEP should reflect the skills necessary to achieve this – both academic and non-academic. Parents acknowledge their high but reasonable expectations and inform the team that they will support them in any way possible. It is critical that the IEP team sees the student's future through both the parents' and the student's eyes.
Implementing Inclusion - National Down Syndrome Society ~ click above highlighted link for the full webpage from NDSS on the benefits of Inclusion for all students.
I am a Special Education Advocate and Parent Trainer. A very proud parent to Mark and Mariah. Aunt Nana to many wonderful "Kiddo's" I hold close under my wing! Helping Parents Partner with Teachers. Helping with quality collaboration & communication so our Children with Unique Learning challenges are provided a Solid Education for their Future Success to Live Life Independently.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
JUST LIKE YOU ~ A NEW DOWN SYNDROME VIDEO
I am a Special Education Advocate and Parent Trainer. A very proud parent to Mark and Mariah. Aunt Nana to many wonderful "Kiddo's" I hold close under my wing! Helping Parents Partner with Teachers. Helping with quality collaboration & communication so our Children with Unique Learning challenges are provided a Solid Education for their Future Success to Live Life Independently.
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