Don’t judge a book by its cover, they always say. This mantra should be practiced even more when interacting with people with disabilities,

In my last post, I iterated how my first year of teaching in Denver turned out to be something of a “witch-hunt”, a term my then-principal u

But then, around mid-year, a 2nd grade student I worked with was observed by her teacher licking her chair. Concerned, I took the student t

Think before you speak; never speak before you think.

One of my favorite poems from my book, Fingerprints, about a special student, as well as the story behind the poem.