Unstuck: The Special Education Podcast

Absenteeism in schools is an epidemic, especially post-COVID. On this episode, we talk about the impact of absenteeism and the shift in mindset around the importance of attending school. We talk about strategies to support students and families as well as the increase in students missing school over the past ten years.

We're back and do we have a great episode for you! Technology has it's strengths and challenges in the classroom. How does one balance the use of technology when education students, minimizing impact on their social and emotional well being. On this episode we talk about the impact of technology for students and how to balance the use of technology with building a classroom community. Enjoy!

Hi everyone- we hope you are having a good year! On this episode we talk about boredom. If you have a topic you'd like us to cover, feel free to reach out. Thanks for listening!

We're back! Thank you all for your patience while we took a little break from the podcast while we caught up on life. On this episode, we talk about narcissism in student. Thanks for listening!

Hi everyone! We are so excited to share this episode with you with out guest, Michelle Steiner. Michelle talks about her school experience with a disability, her current work as a paraprofessional, and her writing and photography. Enjoy!

On this episode we talk with our guest Karen, an SLP and founder of Dr. Karen LLC, about language, literacy, and executive functioning. We hope you enjoy this episode! Thanks for listening! https://drkarendudekbrannan.com/ https://drkarenspeech.com/

Hi everyone! We hope the new school year is going well! On this episode we talk about the school and home connection and the gray area where they overlap. Please enjoy!

Happy school year! On this episode, we talk about creating a positive classroom/school culture. We hope this brings you joy as you start your school year! Thanks for listening!

We are so grateful to have our guest Dr. Theresa Melito-Conners join us to talk about self-care. Self-care is an under discussed topic that we should have a bigger focus on. Dr. MC gives us some helpful hints to help us on our self-care journey. Enjoy!

Welcome everyone! We are so excited to share this episode with you! We welcome Carrie Bonnett, Executive Functioning coach to talk to us about her work in executive functioning and to share with us some of her tips and tricks to helping build executive functioning strategies. Thank you for listening!

Hi everyone! We begin this episode by talking about a Netflix documentary (spoiler alert) and discussing what it means when outside providers make decisions or deliver results without the full conversation of a Team. We hope you enjoy and thanks for listening!

Hello educators! Today we welcome special guest, Alisa. She is a Speech and Language Pathologist who is going to talk with us about social pragmatics. She includes her work with students as well as helpful hints for classroom teachers. Thanks for listening and enjoy!

Hi listeners! Thanks for your patience while we had to postpone putting out an episode. On this episode, we talk about how to lead in a classroom while organizing the related service providers and supporting paraeducators. Thanks to a listener for this recommendation! We had a great discussion. Enjoy!

Hey Listeners! Today we talk about what we would do if we had unlimited resources and the ability to change education in any way we wanted. We'd love to hear what you think and what you would do if you had a magic wand!

Let's try this again :) Hello educators! We are in the home stretch, so what better way to celebrate than to talk about transition! On this episode, we talk about students' post-graduate journey, including their options after high school, what we should be teaching them, and how to best support our learners in this life-changing transition. Thank you for listening! Enjoy!

Our 30th Episode! Thanks everyone for listening along the Unstuck journey! On this episode we discuss the service delivery grid and how determine the amount of services a student needs on their IEP. Enjoy and let us know if you have any episode ideas!

Welcome back to Unstuck! On this episode we do a follow up to our executive functioning episode and do a deeper dive into self-monitoring and executive functioning. Be sure to follow us on social media and let us know what you want to hear! Enjoy and thanks for listening!

Hi! Thank you all for your patience. We had some technical difficulties and were not able to get a podcast out on time. On this episode, we bring our special guest, Caitlin, to talk about ways to create a safe environment in the classroom by using humor and making students smile. We hope you enjoy!

Hello everyone! Today we talk about social skills and how they affect the classroom setting. Given the complexities of social skills in the classroom, this will be multipart and we'll invite a Speech and Language Pathologist to part 2. Enjoy and thanks for listening!

Hi everyone, thanks for listening! On this episode, we talk about the strengths and challenges of co-teaching. We give our perspective and highlight our experiences with co-teaching in both general education and with related service providers. Enjoy!

Happy January! We had a lot of fun recording this episode where we talk about independent, transition, and life skills. We have an in-depth discussion about what students need to be successful in the world and how we can begin to integrate those skills into the natural environment of the classroom. We also talk about ways to integrate specific transition classes into a student's schedule. We hope...

Happy New Year! We are so excited to have our friend Lauren on this episode to talk about physical disabilities and the classroom. We hope you enjoy the conversation! Thanks for listening!

Thanks everyone for being patient! We are a week late putting this episode out. On this episode, we talk about emotional disabilities, including the challenges with educationally identifying these students who may be making gains academically, and needing that individualized support emotionally. Thanks for listening and enjoy!

Hello! On this episode we talk about Paraeducators and the expectations/stress on teachers to training and support in addition to their other expectations. Please enjoy and thanks for checking us out!

Thanks for helping us reach 10,000 downloads! We are so very appreciative of everyone who listens. On this episode, we talk about the development of IEP's and the challenges that we endure when writing a solid IEP for our students' unique needs. Enjoy and thanks for listening!