Public education is imperiled by the opportunist narratives that surround the economic crisis. These corporate-backed narratives are false. The truth is there is plenty of money and corporations and financial institutions have never been more profitable nor had so much capital. They have also never been more powerful and this includes the power to both …
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Help Improve The Nutrition of Local High School Students
Nutritious foods can be more delicious and exciting than any junk food! That’s the message we want to teach high school students through our fantastic student-run cafe. Fruits, yogurt, even raw vegetables and greens make wonderful after-school refreshers when they are made into smoothies. The Life Skills program at our school has run a …
Gallery: Chicago Transit Authority
With my camera strapped to my bag and set to automatically take a photo every minute, I rode the CTA in Chicago. Not realist, documentary, intentional, nor even recording experiential data, the camera has its own impressions and dreams which it brings to consciousness by making the artist responsible. check this out as a slideshow …
not a puzzle
Today I attended an annual fundraising walk for Autism Speaks with one of my students and her family. Autism Speaks is a national organization that funds research into causes and treatments of autism. The picture below shows protesters of the event. The protesters are from ASAN (Autistic Self-Advocacy Network), a group that opposes biomedical approaches to dealing …
United Cerebral Palsy – Walk & Roll!
UPDATE: This walk was a tremendous success! There were over 700 participants and the pizza was great. The best thing about it was being able to try out some new wheelchairs with one of my students, including some speeders and the Quickie All Court–which is just fantastic! Walk, Roll ‘n’ Run 2010 Sat. Sept 11, …
Gallery: Social Stories
Social stories have three main purposes: to explain what is really going on among people, to point out the possibility of meaning, and to say exactly what needs to be said in a particular situation. How many times do we really grasp these? Often we come to articulate them after we have left, or when …
Gallery: Seek Her Always
Seek Her always. This ongoing project uses a variety of photographic techniques to explore the permutations of Wisdom through the scriptures, the culture, and my own experience. My primary concern was to provide glimpses of some of the ways in which Wisdom shows Herself in everyday life. The titles are taken from the holy scriptures …
No Child Left Behind and Special Education Explained
NCLB: Principles and Mandates for Special Education NCLB is the most recent reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Since its passage, it has dramatically expanded the role of the federal government in education, demanded accountability of schools, and provided guidelines for meeting accountability standards. The law requires all students to reach proficiency …