We provide training, information, and technical assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and accessible information technology (IT) to businesses, consumers, schools, and government agencies within the Mid-Atlantic Region (PA, DE, MD, VA, WV, and DC).
McREL draws upon the best of more than 30 years of education research to create practical, user-friendly products that help educators create classrooms that provide all students with opportunities for success.
You need to sit down with an educational consultant to discuss his current level of abilities and disabilities and to think through what your options are.
Mike Kersjes spent more than a decade teaching students with learning disabilities. His first special education teaching job was in an inner-city school in a cubicle that “barely fit five people,” ….a “pitiful excuse for a classroom” that sent “a message to the kids who were taught there: You are worthless.” Mike later began teaching at Forest Hills Northern High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Kristine Burgess, M.S.Ed. (Reading Department Head at Landmark High School)
Study outcomes suggest that mindful meditation decreases anxiety and detrimental self-focus, which, in turn, promotes social skills and academic success for students with learning disabilities.