COVID-19

As a research analyst at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, I've researched school/district response to the pandemic. I've interviewed many parents who have children with disabilities over the last six months about their experiences, and most recently, I've been tracking school reopening plans. What I have noticed, sadly, is a lack of detail on special education in reopening plans. I was hoping that I saw just a lack of publicly available detail on special education

I was asked to share my experiences and perspectives about remote learning for children who are deafblind, like my son Dalton. https://www.educatingalllearners.org/projects-leading-by-example/-Providing-Services-to-Students-who-are-Deafblind%3A-Coming-together-as-a-field Remote Learning for Students who are Deafblind: Sharing our Experience

Proud to have contributed to this blog: https://psucollegeofed.wordpress.com/2020/04/20/teaching-from-home-part-2-educating-children-with-special-needs/

Today I started the day in tears in my car, a reminder of the long emotional few weeks our family has been through. A few months ago, our two middle schoolers, Hunter and Dalton, started to struggle in school. The reasons were different but the family impact was the same. The reality is that we needed to move both of them to a new school that could better serve their needs, preferably a place where we could keep both boys together. Finding a “right fit” school for our son, Hu