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What Do You Do With a Degree In Special Education?

You’ve Graduated, Have Student Loans to Pay Off, But Just Don’t Want To Teach… You Still Have a Surprising Number of Options If I’ve seen it once, I’ve seen it a hundred times. Students graduate high school with not a single clue what they want to do with their future. Their parents practically force the…

How One Special Education Teacher Found Respite Care for Her Own Special Needs Son During an Emergency

My husband and I are feeling pretty lucky right now. Last Friday, my husband, a 24-year paramedic, had a significant cardiac episode. Here’s where the luck comes in: he had just finished transporting a patient to the emergency room at a hospital in the Mississippi River Delta region of Missouri. A long way from anywhere,…

Helpful, Watchful Eyes Keep Us All In Check

A Rose By Any Other Name “What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” –William Shakespeare I got married a year ago. While it’s a big-deal event in one’s life, and it definitely was for Jack and me, we have each been married previously. We…

The Fears Teachers Have: Part 3) What Is Making Professional Educators Flee At Such High Rates? Tales From the Inside of My Chosen Field

This is the final installment of a three-part series on Teacher Fears, and in it we will explore what’s really ruminating in the hearts and minds of the people in this profession. This exploration will consider the things that teachers are often hesitant to discuss or write about for fear of rocking the boat. I…

The Fears Teachers Have: Part 2) Have Well-Educated Adults Lost Their Ability To Have a Backbone?

This is Part 2 of a three-part series on Teacher Fears, and in it we will explore what’s really ruminating in the hearts and minds of the people in this profession. This exploration will consider the things that teachers are often hesitant to discuss or write about for fear of rocking the boat. I guess…

The Fears Teachers Have: Part 1) Facing Down What Is Real, What Is Perceived and What Makes Teachers Fear For Their Jobs and Careers

This is Part 1 of a three-part series on Teacher Fears, and in it we will explore what’s really ruminating in the hearts and minds of the people in this profession. This exploration will consider the things that teachers are often hesitant to discuss or write about for fear of rocking the boat. I guess…

You Can’t Control All the Factors That Lead to Problem Behavior, But You CAN Manage It In The Classroom

I have three dogs—Homer, Scruffy, and Murphy (whose whole name is Murphy Hugh Jackman…long story). Homer came to me because of a rainy day. Typical for me on a rainy day, I picked up my lap top and sat down to mindlessly browse the web during Christmas vacation. A page popped up with an ad…

Training and Retaining Great Talent in America’s Teaching Ranks

In the last week of the year. All across this great land of ours, American Teachers were enjoying the reprieve from day-to-day tasks involved with educating America’s youth. Not many (okay, probably a lot really ARE…I’m probably the only slacker) were reading professional articles about enhancing classroom practice. Probably few were watching professional development videos. …

Accepting Personal Responsibility and Being a Good Teacher-Leader

I have, on more than one occasion, been told I am bossy. It is a term assigned to me which has really never bothered me. I’ve also been called four-eyes, ugly, chicken legs, fatso, a b****, mean, stupid and loads of others. Over time, one either begins to believe the words they hear. Or, as…

Twice Exceptional Students: Understanding What Makes Them Unique and What Will Help Them Connect

Some storms are expected… Hurricane Florence has dominated the news for the past few weeks. Florence was expected to dump up to 40 inches of rain. Wind damage and flooding were projected to be residual with an extreme physical and financial toll for victims. Hurricane winds were projected to be upwards of 100+ miles per hour,…

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Recent Posts by Mary McLaughlin

What Do You Do With a Degree In Special Education?

How One Special Education Teacher Found Respite Care for Her Own Special Needs Son During an Emergency

Helpful, Watchful Eyes Keep Us All In Check

The Fears Teachers Have: Part 3) What Is Making Professional Educators Flee At Such High Rates? Tales From the Inside of My Chosen Field

The Fears Teachers Have: Part 2) Have Well-Educated Adults Lost Their Ability To Have a Backbone?

The Fears Teachers Have: Part 1) Facing Down What Is Real, What Is Perceived and What Makes Teachers Fear For Their Jobs and Careers

You Can’t Control All the Factors That Lead to Problem Behavior, But You CAN Manage It In The Classroom

Training and Retaining Great Talent in America’s Teaching Ranks

Accepting Personal Responsibility and Being a Good Teacher-Leader

Twice Exceptional Students: Understanding What Makes Them Unique and What Will Help Them Connect

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