Month: May 2023

This article was written and published by Along on May 2, 2023. Hip, hip, hooray! Teacher Appreciation Week is here and we can’t wait to share all of the special reasons why we love teachers. But first, we want to acknowledge how busy teachers truly are. From lesson-planning to extracurriculars, it’s no surprise that you’re…

This article written by Edward Montalvo and published by XQ on April 28 2023. You know that face students make when you ask them questions, and you can tell they’re thinking deeply? It’s a very distinctive face: their eyes are growing bigger, and you can tell the dots are connecting. If you’re an educator, it’s…

This event page was originally posted by Getting Smart on May 1st, 2023. On this Getting Smart Town Hall we are joined by Erin Mote from Educating All Learners Alliance and Karla Phillips-Krivickas from Think Inclusion to discuss some of the core challenges facing learners with disabilities, some of the most pressing topics circling the…

This article was originally written by Will Vitka in Northern Virginia Magazine on April 14th, 2023. Fairfax County Public Schools added three specialists to its roster in an effort to better meet the needs of neurodivergent students. One of the new hires, Kristen Haynor, “is believed to be the first Neurodiversity Specialist in a U.S.…

This article was originally written by Caitlyn Hayes in the Cornell Chronicle on April 10, 2023. For her master’s project in archeology at Cornell, Carol Anne Barsody M.A. ’23 assembled and led a large interdisciplinary team of researchers to investigate and solve the mystery of a mummified bird that had been kept in Cornell’s archives for decades,…