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 Big Education ApeTHE TOP BANANATODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINESSPI Announces “A Trusted Space” Initiative - Year 2022 (CA Dept of Education) - https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr22/yr22rel07.aspIllinois and New York. Retiree healthcare under assault. Teacher union leaders complicit. - https://fredklonsky.substack.com/p/illinois-and-new-york-retiree-healthcareState budget testimony on class size and the broken Contracts for Excellence program | Class Size Matters | A clearinghouse for information on class size & the proven benefits of smaller classes - https://classsizematters.org/?p=10311Forget About Quality Instruction When You Take Away Teachers’ Planning Time | gadflyonthewallblog - https://wp.me/p4QD1W-3I5 via @StevenSinger3Choosing Democracy: Teachers and students dealing with emotions - http://choosingdemocracy.blogspot.com/2022/01/teachers-and-students-dealing-with.html If Beloved is criminal pornography, come put me...

Is Your School In Need Of A Lunch Bunch? Most schools, if not all, would benefit from having a lunch bunch. A lunch bunch is a place for students who have difficulty making friends to eat and play games in a more structured setting than the playground. The goal of a lunch bunch is to facilitate friendships between students. Being able to mix students with Autism, special needs, and typically developing students can be really fun. Some students with Autism and special needs have very limited access to the general education population so this is a really neat opportunity and...

Did you know that February is Dental Health Month?! If you don’t already teach activities of daily living (ADL) skills in your classroom, this would be a great time to start. Here are three activities you can use to teach about dental health this month. Teach Teethbrushing Teethbrushing is typically the first ADL skill I introduce in my classroom. Why? Many of my students are not independently brushing their teeth at home. Most kids (neurotypical and neurodiverse alike) have difficulty learning to brush their teeth. Now add in sensory, motor or cognitive challenges and this twice-a-day task can be extremely...

Of all the interests and hobbies and activities that people can choose from in this world, I never in a million years thought that I would be as interested in birds as I have turned out to be. I didn’t really think much about them prior to a few years ago…..they just flew through the air and built nests and ate worms and generally were background fodder for life. I knew there were a few different kinds and they were all around the same size and that was about it. They didn’t warrant much more attention than that. We got our...

Blockheads high-fived Peppermint Patty, grooved to Schroeder’s piano and got down and dirty with Pig Pen as the Peanuts Celebration returned to Knott’s Berry Farm. Knott’s Peanuts Celebration kicked off on Saturday, Jan. 22 and runs daily through March 6 at the Buena Park theme park. Sign up for our Park Life newsletter and find out what’s new and interesting every week at Southern California’s theme parks. Subscribe here. SEE ALSO: Knott’s Peanuts Celebration: Everything you need to know before you go Snoopy was waiting just inside the front gates on opening day of the Peanuts Celebration at a meet-and-greet...