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How can Goal Attainment Scaling help schools respond to Endrew v. Douglas County?
Districts and special education departments all over the country are talking about Endrew F. versus Douglas County School District, the...
Lee Ann Jung
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Abandoning Grades in Inclusive Education?
To grade or not to grade in the inclusive classroom.
Lee Ann Jung
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Destination, Location, and Directions: A Powerful GPS for Student Success
When is the last time you remember navigating to a new place in your car without the aid of a global positioning system? Since the advent...
Lee Ann Jung
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Why do parents need to know all this, anyway?
Before becoming the mother of three children with very different disabilities, I was a special educator.
Nicole DeZarn
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Helping Students Understand Person-First Language
Person first language is an important ethical matter often discussed in the field of special education and disability advocacy.
Nicole DeZarn
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Is it an accommodation or a modification?
Adapted from Jung, L. A. (2017). In providing supports for students, language matters. Educational Leadership, 74(7). The adaptations...
Lee Ann Jung
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Unintended Barriers to Inclusion
There’s a very real and very serious barrier to the inclusion of people with significant physical and/or cognitive disabilities that no one
Nicole DeZarn
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On Metaphors and Proprietary Blends
I recently read a compelling blog post by Peter DeWitt and Thomas Guskey (2017) on the misuse of educational language. They boldly took...
Lee Ann Jung
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Differentiated Assessment and Grading Model (DiAGraM)
Scholars in the field of measurement have developed sophisticated procedures for competency and standards-based grading with a variety of...
Lee Ann Jung
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Why IEP Goal Banks are a Bad Idea
If we know what makes a measurable goal and can define many examples, then why not have a bank of goals from which teams choose? After...
Lee Ann Jung
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Retention is NOT an Intervention
Repeat after me: Retention is not an intervention. Retention is not an intervention. Retention is NOT an intervention! Although this...
Lee Ann Jung
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Inclusion is More than Location
Inclusion is often thought of as a location—we are implementing inclusion if students are spending all or almost all of their days in...
Lee Ann Jung
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The REAL Impact Factor of Research
In academia, researchers are often measured by the impact factor they achieve. The impact factor is calculated, largely through a formula...
Lee Ann Jung
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Using screencasts to improve my student feedback
We all know that feedback we give to our students should give them direction. A grade gives them an idea of their location toward a...
Lee Ann Jung
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A problem with SBG?...or a problem with implementation?
You may have read in the news lately about the struggles that one district is encountering with SBG. Parents have formed a group, anxious...
Lee Ann Jung
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Selma, Race, and Courageous Conversations
Published by Corwin Press at Corwin Connect. Perhaps because of being raised in Selma, Alabama in the 1970s and 80s, race and racism are...
Lee Ann Jung
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How our program evaluates teacher candidates on IECE standards
After posting my last blog entry, Ken O’Connor asked me a great question. He wondered why I was giving scores on assignments instead of...
Lee Ann Jung
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Using SBG in a school that uses traditional practices
One question we often hear from teachers is, “How do I make the move to standards-based grading, or at least go in that direction, if my...
Lee Ann Jung
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My ivory tower view of research dissemination has toppled...
Yesterday, I was compelled for the first time to start a blog. This is my first attempt, so be gentle. As an academician, I have to admit...
Lee Ann Jung
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