GAA almost over!!!!

Wow! Another year down... I have to say this year was much less stressful. Experience really pays off! Next year I will be even more prepared, but I'm in no hurry :)   I hope mine "exceed expectations" again this year. I can never count on it because it all depends on who is the portfolio evaluator. For example, last year I adminstered the same assignments to 2 students, same prompts, same write-ups. They both exceeded in general but on one entry (Lang Arts- writing) one exceeded and one did not even meet! How does that make sense. I hope I have the evaluators who are in good moods. Haha!  With the expectations my administration places on me, I better exceed... Damn! One of my co-workers (Autism program, which is new this year) is feeling the stress of the first year and I feel horrible for her. I know what she is going through. No one ever will know what the GAA entails unless they have to administer them.  She will do fine though, I have faith! Friday Happy Hour is a neccessity this week! LOL!
On another positive note.... I was nominated for Teacher of The Year today! I am disqualified though because I am going through tenure this year, you have to have 3 full years and tenure under your belt to qualify. But still it's cool, especially to see a SPED nominated!  Now, on to IEP's...... wish me luck!

Special Educator Expert Blogger!!!!

My article goes live today on weareteacher.com!   Please visit  the following link to check it out :
NCLB/ Special Education Reform
The topic is : How do you think ESEA/ NCLB will look after Special Education Reform?
This is so exciting! I will have 2 more articles come out over the next month in a half so stay posted! I have to thank my readers for being such avid followers because you are the ones that got me recognized to be on this panel. Thank you:)

Classroom Update

By the way... the construction is taking longer than told to the school. It is turning out to be like 5 weeks. They have knocked out the back 2" lift and put the frame of the bathroom up. They also have the shower in there, and supposedly have most to all the plumming stuff done. So that is some. The deadline is now told to me to be the 13th. Keep your fingers crossed!

We Are Teachers Special Education Panel

About 3 weeks ago I recieved an email from http://www.weareteachers.com/ website asking me to be on a special educator panal to discuss 3 topics that will be provided. Yay! They said they viewed tons of special education blogs and decided to use me as one of their panal members!  Anyway, Our topic this month is "How do you think ESEA/NCLB will look after Special Education Reform?" Right now I am trying to gather information and opinions of my readers to include in my post. Soooooo, what do you my readers think? Please comment back and let me know :)

New Worksheets Coming!

Hello readers! I wanted to let you know that after my GAAs are complete I will be uploading lots of worksheets I created that align with GA's middle school standards (Im sure elementary and other states can use them as well). A lot will need the Boardmaker program but if enough people comment back to me I will try to scan them so you wont need it. I need those comments though!