Hello All!!!
Looking at how to interact with my students better, I am looking for some summer PD. I have several students with Downs Syndrome and Autism. Does anyone know of anything that would help with these specific disabilities?

Anyone interested in watching Abu Dhabi GP on Dec 12? There’s a minimum of 2 tickets to purchase.

Happy to answer any questions about law school or practicing law

what are some brands you feel like are handling the BLM & pandemic well? feel free the name drop the ones (& their respective agencies) that aren’t!

Has anyone here used virtual assistants? Any recommended service or general insights about it. I'm looking to add content to a website that is basically historical info and it could be time intensive.

My senior manager is setting up a dumpling night for my team to celebrate the lunar new year next week after I mentioned that I wanted to celebrate. I feel so happy and loved 🤩

Hey guys, I need to renew my lease this summer and my landlord is rushing me to sign. She wants to keep rent the same. Anyone else going through this? Should I do it?

To all my FAAS colleagues out there.

Is 105k base salary asking to much for an S1 in Texas?

Any tips or recommendations on how to stay active through the day while working a demanding job that requires you to work long hours? Trying to do both but would love to hear how some of you are working through the same challenge. Struggling to move enough plus fit in all my work

Best areas to live in if have to commute to DTLA two days a week and partner has to travel to Riverside next year? Ideally we don't want to move twice. Hoping to not have longer than 1 hr commute with traffic in either direction. Please be kind I know LA traffic is horrible- I don't need a lecture about how bad it is lol

Any current or former Google PMs here that can provide advice? I have a final round with Google and my recruiter is only considering me for YouTube roles as they are from that org. I have a lot of cloud and SaaS experience and would be a better fit for G.Cloud. I've been trying to get my recruiter to consider me for the cloud vertical as well and they are refusing to do that. Someone has ordered to help get my application moved to the Cloud track but they asked me to think about this first

For my mid-sized ladies (like size 12-16) how do you go about dating? I feel like guys aren’t into the in-between because myself and all the ladies I know of similar size are single af and don’t do well on the apps, and just get glanced over in person as soon as someone thinner walks by

I’m currently a hr specialist and have 3-4 years experience in hr with 10 years fully admin. I’m now level 7 cipd qualified with a masters in HR and struggling to get into a hr manager role as I’m way overqualified for the role I’m in now. How hard is to break into manager role?

So far I’ve been through 1 IVF cycle. I have one embryo that is frozen waiting for transfer. My doctor is wanting me to do another round of IVF to back eggs for baby number two down the road. Has anyone been through this? I know of two people around my age that got pregnant naturally with their second baby after IVF. Does anyone know about banking embryos for future use instead of transferring? My insurance doesn’t cover anything so all this of out of pocket.

Anyone taken the Bain “online test” before interviews? Does it determine my chances of an interview or simply another step in the process? Some of the info seems to be general info collection

First year lawyer - do senior lawyers and partners expect you to bother them to ask for work?

How much do worker’s compensation coordinators make? I am currently handling 13 states at 53k a year.

Hey! I'm looking for a self-monitoring checklist or graphic organizer for the new US History regents essays. Something my High school SWD could use to help guide him through writing a good essay response. Does anyone have any materials or suggestions?

And K-3 pull out teachers willing to share their schedule with me. Looking to redo mine in December and want to see how others do it!

Am I the only one whose paras speed up group work only to say “they did it all,” then look at me for more work or go back to sit at their desk? I seem to be making piles of work and while I can work with my groups without flying through it (and I am not stretching it out to kill time), they seem to want to be done. I know that it’s up to me to say go slower, don’t do their work, or just ok, do it again, but I am tired of having to not only keep kids but also adults on task. Just venting.

How do you guys deal with behavior? What are your worse behavior problems you see in your kids! The worst problems for my kids is throwing and cussing along with kicking. I teach EBD! What about you?

I have high needs kids in my room all day. I am running out of things for them to do. Any suggestions?

Do you find that most content teachers are willing to do/try Tier 1 interventions or do they depend on you to do them? Or do they just go straight to the Tier 2? I think more content/mainstream teachers need to learn that Tier 1 interventions are part of THEIR job descriptions, too!

8th grade intervention specialist here…I have students who are reading well below grade level (3rd grade) and am currently teaching phonics and phonemic awareness but at times it feels very young for these teenagers. At what point, I don’t want to say give up, but do we stop teaching phonics? And if not teaching phonics what reading skills do you teach instead to continue to help their reading?

Does anyone have experience with related service providers wanting to discontinue services because the student is no longer making progress? In my eyes this is absolutely not a good reason! What are your thoughts? I’m mainly talking about OT and PT services for kids older than 3rd grade. Is there something I’m missing? I would never discontinue a reading program because a student isn’t making progress - I would work my butt off to find a solution. Is it different with OT and PT?

Any fun, virtual, FUN FRIDAY ideas out there for students? Help! 😄

Anyone bring a therapy dog in training to their sped class? I’m looking for information to share with my district to see if I can bring my dog in training.

Do any of your schools support UDL practice?

Teaching remote and looking for curriculum for special ed student in science and social studies

Anyone else been told that injuries requiring medical intervention and follow up are just part of the job?

I recently got in trouble for not having a secure/locked place for all my IEP files. What do you use to keep your files secure?

I have several middle schoolers with special needs and they seem to get overwhelmed with too many clicks or steps to do with remote learning. What are some ways to keep things simple?

How soon do you start preparing materials for the first week of school? Tks

Writing IEPs can be so time-consuming and overwhelming and we don't get paid any extra or given time during school to do them. I feel taken advantage of. We should get paid more than regular ed teachers just for that fact.

I need some help! I work at an all special education school and our library is in bad shape we have around 100 students and around 500 books. I'm writing a proposal for a community book drive but we need some really specific books too. Any recommendations on how to build our poor library? A lot of grants have passed their due date and donors choose has gone poorly in the past.

What Sped teachers wish Gen Ed teachers knew....