Tonight, I went with Jena to go see RENT performed at the Schubert in Boston ( Read more... )

Help!

If you want to add something to another thing to make it better...

do you COMPLIMENT it,

or

COMPLEMENT it.

Philosophies of teaching are a big bad bitch to write.

This picture has graced this journal before... but holy hell, who DOESN'T want to see it again?


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The mother of one of the kids in my classroom emailed me this evening, asking if I'd be interested in working with her son for a couple of hours on the weekend and maybe one afternoon a week. Her son's a sweetheart, with very minimal behaviors. I'd be more or less just taking him into the community, getting him used to being out in public a lot ( Read more... )

My nephew's birthday is in a couple weeks, so on goes the competition for who can get the 8 year old the coolest gift.

I think Auntie Kim and "Uncle Mike" will win it this year.
We're getting him a football passing machine!

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SOUL PATROL!! WOOOO!

Let this be said:

Clay Aiken looked absolutely terrifying.
If I am to have nightmares tonight, it's going to be of visions of Clay.

Here's one of my favorite things about working with autistic children and/or children with developmental delays ( Read more... )

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