Opinion

Special education teachers and coordinators are pulled in a million directions, often doing the jobs of three people, working long hours and battling burnout.

Teaching phonics is an important step toward improving literacy instruction, but students still need time to read authentic texts.

Behavioral intervention is strengthened by data, and data is hard to come by when documentation is time-consuming and manual.

Over the past decade, the teacher shortage crisis has grown in the United States and many other countries. There is much to be done before the situation is under better control and new common-sense solutions are installed.

Our "secret sauce" was connecting easy-to-access personalized information about our students to our district's overarching portrait of a graduate—our vision for success.

It's time for school districts to recognize that paraprofessionals are already working in apprenticeship programs. The challenge is formalizing the apprenticeship model and providing a pathway to a teaching certificate.