Give students legacy and meaning

Build Intrapersonal Communications into your CurriculumAs we discuss on page 54 of Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds, one of the 5 ways students need to connect in the flattened classroom is over time.

We have so many opportunities for students to create time capsules to communicate with themselves. Ideas like this plan on Share my Lesson for a time capsule on the first day of school resonate


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Last week was a mess largely because the form we set up for teachers to share their information with us for the Eracism project was pulled


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Integrating Educational Apps and Classroom Lessons for Students with Autism and Special Needs

     "A new chapter may bring autism educational apps to a lesson plan near you.

Educational Apps have been showing great success with many students with special needs and autism. They are motivating learning tools. Although, the numbers of users of mobile tablets are increasing by the hour, most educators and parents are struggling with where to start when it comes to choosing apps.

AutismClassroom.com’s book, Lesson Ideas and Activities for Young Children with Autism and Related Special Needs: Activities, Apps and Lessons for Joint Attention, Imitation, Play, Social Skills & More (2010), matches apps to the actual instructional lesson. The book already provided teachers and parents with over 100 starting points and beginning places for creating meaningful activities for pre-school and elementary-aged students with autism and related special needs. Each theme unit provided activity based ideas specific to Joint Attention, Imitation Skills, Communication, Self-Help Skills, Independent Skills, Pre-Vocational Skills, Social Skills, Play Skills, Sensory Involvement, Basic Concept Mastery, Vocabulary/Literacy, Fine Motor, and Gross Motor. However, just recently, the newly added “Apps” chapter highlights ten educational apps in each skill area. The over 100 highlighted apps can be easily incorporated into lessons and activities for young children with autism and special needs."

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If your child is more Valuable than your home, car and other possessions, Sign this Education Petition: Cameras in special needs room for safety

Cameras are everywhere!

Local streets, interstate highways, almost any type of retail store, restaurants, banks, hospitals, on buildings, ATM machines, sports arenas, parks, homes, cars, pools, vacation retreat facilities,  school hallways and playgrounds, on our smartphones and other hand-held devices.

You think of it, or a place and there are probably cameras monitoring, surveillancing, logging, notating our every activity --- around the world!

MY CHILD IS MORE VALUABLE THAN MY car!
Heard of GPS?

Ever heard of 'Court TV'?

The U.S. Supreme Court has considered permitting cameras in the courtroom for certain cases.

SO WHY ARE CAMERAS NOT MONITORING IN CLASSROOMS? 
It seems 'Big Brother' is watching us everywhere except in the classroom.

We've heard all of the reasons why?  Privacy, minors, parental consent, civil rights, invasion of privacy, hindrance to true teaching and pure learning, etc...

Because my child has Autism, I'm encouraged to place a ID microchip in his body, lojack him, tag his clothes, school bag, put a medical alert bracelet on him, notify law enforcement and emergency response teams about his developmental disability, as well as, post a notice on my front door and petition for a street sign.  So far, I can bear all of these except the microchip!

That's right!  Parents of kids who are disabilities, are non-verbal, have communication speech/language difficulties, are physically, mentally, intellectually challenged and other developmental delays do take pictures of their children before and after school and other activities.


So why not encourage cameras in the classroom?

I've been in schools that have large glass on the doors and/or instead of hallway walls, there are glass walls for each classroom.  From the hallway, you can see everything except the bathroom.  But, you just need to get permission from the School to be in the area.  And you need to be at the school in order to see your child learning and engaging.


MY CHILD IS MORE VALUABLE THAN my home!

Anyway, as a Parent of a Child with Special Needs, I would like to have cameras in the classroom.  I want cameras setup for off-site monitoring from my digital devices(smartphones, tablets, laptop, iPad, etc...) JUST LIKE HOME SECURITY MONITORING SYSTEMS DO!

MY CHILD IS MORE VALUABLE THAN my possessions!

Many Parents of Students with Disabilities and Special Needs agree.

Sign this Education Petition by Tara Heidinger. 

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My story is only one of the many of both physical and verbal abuse as well as neglect taking place in special needs classrooms all over the country....

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Autistic teacher praised for work with students

"I do believe the kids in my class are going to be capable of a lot of things," Harold said. "Just give us a chance, just because we learn differently doesn't mean we are less capable."
Price has Asperger's Syndrome.  Harold Price, did not have those types of services growing up.
Now, he teaches kids with developmental disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorder.  He struggled with social skills growing up but was exceptionally smart according to his mother who is also a teacher, Marie Price.

Pre-Kindergarten teacher at Veterans Park Academy for the Arts in Lehigh Acres, 33-year-old Harold Price, ...
"They just learn differently, they may need a couple extra seconds," Price said.The need is growing in Lee County schools for Autism-related classrooms and teachers.
Next year the school district is adding four new programs for exceptional education services at Heights Elementary, Tortuga Preserve Elementary, Harns Marsh Middle, and Challenger Middle.

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• River Hall Elementary
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• Trafalgar Elementary
• Caloosa Elementary
• Skyline Elementary
• Hector Cafferata Elementary
• Gulf Elementary
• Villas Elementary
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• James Stephens International Academy
• Trafalgar Middle
• Diplomat Middle
• Challenger Middle
• P. L. Dunbar Middle
• Three Oaks Middle
• Lehigh Senior High
• Fort Myers High
• South Ft. Myers High
• Cypress Lake High
• Cape High
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