Kate Adams

@JD_4thechildren Most Talented Team of Behaviorist I have ever worked with!

Best team in the biz. Couldn’t be more proud to work with these amazing BCBAs 🤍🤍

Please listen to @ehanford's immensely important podcast Sold a Story: features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/. It's the story of how we taught reading wrong for decades to millions of kids bc we believed what was pleasant to believe not what was true about learning.

More than 650 teachers sign a response to the letter about Sold a Story signed by Calkins and other ed professors, authors and curriculum developers last week. "As teachers, we have seen it with our own eyes." righttoreadproject.com/2022/11/30/for…

Why Gen-Ed Teachers Are Essential for Special Education noodle.com/articles/why-g… We are all teachers. Now, let's teach some kids!

"Fundamentally neurodiversity emphasizes the collective strength inherent in cognitive diversity (Chapman, 2020) and that this strength arises from all kinds of differences, including those associated with autism, ID or language impairment" (Kapp, 2020). frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

“With authentic inclusive education, students do not have to ‘fit into’ the preexisting conditions of the class. Rather, the classroom and school environments are designed to provide the supports and structures that every student needs to succeed." #quotes #inclusion

“We don’t always succeed in what we try—certainly not by the world’s standards—but I think you’ll find it’s the willingness to keep trying that matters most.”

Trading ‘Please focus’ for ‘How are you?’: A listening strategy that’s helping some teachers improve the classroom experience kqed.org/mindshift/5947…

A new study found kids who used one of the world's most widely used reading intervention programs did worse on exams than those who didn't use it — another hit to its credibility after cognitive scientists refuted its central theory. n.pr/3MRnhA2

Kids learn as much from guided play as from direct instruction, report finds edsource.org/?page_id=669638 via @edsource

Shout out to Union’s own Dr. Lauren Barker on her amazing contributions to Dr. Feifer’s new book. The Neuropsychology of Reading Disorders. @usdlearns @mary_katayama @SJellin @USDsped

@MrGoldmanUMS @MrsAGoldman @usd_hr @PrincipalTodd As much as I would love to take credit for the amazing Amanda Goldman, I have to admit @PrincipalTodd first put her on my radar when she was in another district. (He will never let me forget that) She was def a score for USD!!!!

Thank you @Kateinclusive, who is not only a wonderful Special Education Director, but also has a keen eye for hiring talent! @MrsAGoldman @usd_hr @PrincipalTodd #teamUMS #UMSTwitterBingoV4

Why some California school districts are changing how students earn grades      edsource.org/?page_id=664226 via @edsource

@usd_hr We are grateful for you hrguy!!!

Union Sped Team CareBears: Inclusion Bear, Behavior Bear, Kindness Bear, Sped Funding Bear, and Compliance Bear, Upstander Bear ❤️ and Wylder the Fox

Halloween parade fun 👻

@msmtchnk Thank you for your thoughtful words/grace. No one in ed was prepared in anyway for any of this. I currently think of my workday as being small incremental boxes of despair I attend to all day (often unsuccessfully) trying to be supportive and present while hanging by a thread.

I'm going to be vulnerable and put this out into the universe, even if it's just for myself, because I am really, truly struggling: I was not trained for the kind of work being a teacher requires right now, and I don't know what to do about that. Thread: (1/n) 🧵