Earlier this week I had a chance to speak with three members of congress. The conversation covered a variety of topics including the challenge of educating students with special needs. While it would have been easy to repeat the oft stated complaint concerning the lack of full funding for IDEA, I chose instead to let the representatives know the good job that KPBSD schools are doing to meet the learning needs of our disabled students. While I can’t claim that we are perfect, I shared that I am continually impressed by how well we integrate our students with disabilities into our schools.
The National Educational Support Personnel Day is this Wednesday. This day recognizes our staff members, often working with little fanfare behind the scenes, who make such a difference for our students with disabilities. This group includes school psychologists, speech and language pathologists, speech and language pathologists assistants, occupational therapists, vision and hearing specialists, adaptive P.E. teachers, and physical therapists. Each of these individuals has a special set of skills, an enormous amount of patience and an ability to analyze and then positively react to what can be stressful situations. They provide tremendous services to our students and families; KPBSD is fortunate to have such outstanding specialists. Please take a moment to join me in thanking them for all that they do.
Thanking our educational support personnel
Earlier this week I had a chance to speak with three members of congress. The conversation covered a variety of topics including the challenge of educating students with special needs. While it would have been easy to repeat the oft stated complaint concerning the lack of full funding for IDEA, I chose instead to let the representatives know the good job that KPBSD schools are doing to meet the learning needs of our disabled students. While I can’t claim that we are perfect, I shared that I am continually impressed by how well we integrate our students with disabilities into our schools.
The National Educational Support Personnel Day is this Wednesday. This day recognizes our staff members, often working with little fanfare behind the scenes, who make such a difference for our students with disabilities. This group includes school psychologists, speech and language pathologists, speech and language pathologists assistants, occupational therapists, vision and hearing specialists, adaptive P.E. teachers, and physical therapists. Each of these individuals has a special set of skills, an enormous amount of patience and an ability to analyze and then positively react to what can be stressful situations. They provide tremendous services to our students and families; KPBSD is fortunate to have such outstanding specialists. Please take a moment to join me in thanking them for all that they do.