5 Must Haves in Your Life Skills Assessment

Assessing independent living skills is a crucial process in our educational system because it can help prepare individuals with disabilities for their post-secondary settings. Rather than just hoping to place them in the community when they turn 22 years of age (in some states, 26), you can better prepare individuals [...]

By |2019-10-01T08:56:12-05:00May 15th, 2013|Education, Life Skills|

Empathy & Multi-Tiered System of Supports

Empathy is the fourth building block on our social/emotional pyramid that is measured by the Success Profiler’s Personal Skills Map. Empathy is one of the more critical characteristics in our social/emotional pyramid. Without empathy, emotional intelligence is simply not possible. Empathy is also a critical skill needed in MTSS.   Multi-Tiered [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:27-05:00April 16th, 2013|Education, Emotional Intelligence|

Stop Working Harder & Start Working Smarter

If there were a smarter way to do something would you do it? Let’s take the invention of cars for example. Someone thought, “Wouldn't it be great if we didn't have to walk everywhere?” We could travel longer distances in a shorter time period. Great solution, right? I think people [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:28-05:00November 20th, 2012|Education|

Assessments Drive Instruction

Everyone thinks they know what they want, but if you really think about it, we only know what we don’t want, based on what we don’t like. This can be dangerous, because if we don't know what we want, we don't have an end goal and we end up losing [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:28-05:00October 30th, 2012|Education|

Don’t Think Band-Aid, Think big Picture

It’s been said that the first step in solving a problem is recognizing that there’s a problem. One of the biggest problems I hear from school districts all over the country is that they don’t have enough time to properly administer, score, interpret, and catalog assessment results that are required [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:28-05:00October 15th, 2012|Education|
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