Welcome to the weekly listing of the past week’s news and info for 28 March 2022

A cold front blew through Saturday, and Sunday was really chilly. I don’t think the high temperature exceeded 10 Celsius. Although my fingeres weren’t frozen, I was moving slowly. Still, I wanted to prepare this issue of the newsletter and, voila, here it is!

First, I have an update about the health of Special Education Today, appreciation for readers, the current contents, and then the usual personal reflections.

Status update

SET has grown. There were no unsubscribes and three new subscriptions. These are all free subscribers (more on that in a future note). Thanks to those who spread the word; please continue to do so! Forward. Tweet. Share. Tell friends and others!

Flashes of the electrons

Part of the reason the community has grown is that SET pals interacted with the magazine last week. I want to acknowledge them here.

• Clayton K., Laura McK., Luann D., and Dan H. all chipped in with comments last week. Thank you each for the contibutions.

• Thanks Dan P., Luann D., Laura McK., Mike N., Clay K., Tina, C., for throwing “likes” on posts recently. It’s great that you find them worth “liking,” and I appreciate the feedback.

• Most frequent openers of email messages from SET in the last seven days include Dan P., Tom F., Alicia R., Kelsy R., Sheldon H., Ed P., Ronnie D., and many others. Thanks for reading!

Thanks to y’all who have followed @speciadedtoday. Twitter’s a great way to keep up with what’s happening with SET. As I get a chance, I’ll push notices to followers of that TW account. Help SET by retweeting those notices and posting your own tweets about content even when I don’t.

Table of contents for the past week

If you are only reading this newsletter, you are getting what I think would be called “a lagging indicator.” This newsletter appears once a week. I post messages to the Web site multiple times during the week. These are posts from the previous week.

• McKenna on sped journalism—Can we come back to this topic?

• Seidenberg’s notes on “science of reading”—What do people mean when they use this phrase?

• Special education happiness metric—What could we learn from conducting a reputable survey regularly?

• Translating the US Secretary of Education’s 24 March 2022 letter—What in the world did he say?

Be sure to check the Web site to keep current. You’ll find an HTML formated version of this newsletter (much prettier than the funky version that comes in the e-mail) as well as any newer posts.

Commentary

In place of editorial commentary this week, I’m simply going to post a photo I took this week. It shows a view looking pretty much southwest from the short Greenstone Trail Overlook in the Blue Ridge Mountains. One one can look toward the mountains farther south on the left and across the Shennandoah Valley to the west, to the right in the photo. It’s about a 45-min drive from our house.

I end here with familiar recommendations: Wear your seatbelts (and encourage other passengers in your vehicle wear them, too). Wash your hands frequently. Prefer gathering in well-ventilated spaces. Get vaccinated and help others to do so. And, of course, teach your children well. ‘Till next time....

JohnL
SET Editor guy
Charlottesville

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