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Special Education Today Newsletter 1(45)
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Special Education Today Newsletter 1(45)

What is the latest from SET?

John Wills Lloyd
Apr 25
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Dear fellow Special Education Today campers, here’s this week’s update. Welcome to the 45th issue of the newsletter.

It has the usual: Updates on our status, shout-outs to members of the community, a recount of the last week’s content, and a couple of editorial announcements.

Update on Subscribers

There has been a burst of free subscribers. The number has grown by more than 40 since April Fools’ Day. Thanks to all y’all who’ve been sharing links to SET. Thanks, especially, to Jan H. for sharing the word about SET in her professional development presentations; I’m honored that such knowledgable people mention SET.

Current readers can help, too. Please pass along notes about SET.

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On Twitter, one can find SET @SpecialEdToday. Please watch for messages there and throw a reTweet (preferably with a glowing review!) or a like.

Department of Shout-outs

Speaking of Twitter, I appreciate that Michael K., Tina C, Betsy T., and others are mentioning SET on that medium. Thank you all!

Flashes of the old electrons to the many folx who’ve interacted with SET content on the Web. Thanks, for example, to Jane B, Tina, C, Elizabeth T., Ed M., Clay K., and many others who’ve liked, commented, and shared posts.

And, a special welcome to new signees, Cathy M., Carissa H., Janine S., Geoff V., and others with whom I had back-channel correspondence this week.

Current Contents

This week, you can find new articles about various topics in the magazine. They comprise something of a motley topical batch.

Special Education Today
Reversals redux
When learning to read and write letters and numerals, children mistake some letters and numerals for other similar ones, especially those that appear similar when rotated on an axis. The characters m…
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21 days ago · 4 likes · 7 comments · John Wills Lloyd
Special Education Today
The shortage of sped teachers
Lee V. Gaines and Dylan Peers McCoy separately reported two stories for US National Public Radio about the difficulties schools in the US are having hiring and keepng special education teachers. In …
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20 days ago · John Wills Lloyd
Special Education Today
Evaluating Curricula—# 10
Regular readers may recall the saga of Jamie, Anna, and Al as they sought info about the effectiveness of an early literacy curriculum. See the bottom of this post if you need to catch up on the stor…
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19 days ago · John Wills Lloyd
Special Education Today
Reading Recovery research may not look so good
Reading Recovery, an intervention program recommended by many reading authorities around the world and used with millions of children in the US, apparently may not be as beneficial as claimed. A suit…
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18 days ago · John Wills Lloyd
Special Education Today
Did I mention this before?
Over on “Educated Parent,” there was fine post about reading: “Kids can’t read thanks to COVID.” The point is that parents need to focus on matters of importance. Are the important matters illusorary…
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18 days ago · 1 like · John Wills Lloyd

Notes

I seem to have settled into a pretty consistent rhythm with SET production. Just about every week is the same. (a) There are these Monday morning missives, weekly summaries. (b) There are usually two or three other posts during the week—sometimes four or even five!—and one of them is usually a Friday Photos feature (though I’ve missed some Fridays). (c) One of those posts usually goes out as an email message as well.

I dropped the first of what I hope will be a recurring feature: Q-&-As with eminent scholars in special education; Jim Kauffman graciously helped me launch it. I have other such “interviews” in the works. I’ve experimented with serializing some content (remember the Dear John letters? (a list of those is here). I’m returning to the story of the members of the curriculum committee. So regular readers should have a pretty good idea of what to expect from SET.

In the coming weeks, I’ll launch a paid side to SET. I’m going to ask subscribers to contribute $6 a month. Subscribers will have access to all the content of SET. They will also have access to premium content (i.e., posts that are not available to the free subscribers). The subscriber-only content will probably include longer form posts about practice and policy.

The basic subscription plan ($6 a month) will also have an annual alternative. Instead of dropping $72 over 12 months one month at a time, subscribers can opt for a $60 per year subscription, a savings of > 16%.

So, what does all this mean for you right now? Not much, actually. It’s is in the future. It only matters if you start a subscription now.

Subscriptions are available right now, and you can subscribe right now. Just click on the subscribe button at the end of this newsletter-post. You can show your support for SET by getting in on the action early. Or you can wait You can just ignore it and keep reading what you’re probably used to reading. If you want to start now, you can also take advantage of an early-bird subscription (annual; larger discount) and show your support for SET.

If you have ideas about what I ought to publish, send me a note or DM me (@SpecialEdToday or @JohnWillsLloyd).

For now, here’s a photo from a walk I took Sunday morning. I walked around Foxhaven Farm with a group led by the wonderful folks from Ragged Mountain Running and Walking. I heard a Louisiana Water Thrush at the spot in the photo, but I didn’t get a glimpse of it. Beautiful song!

Downstream on Morey Creek

Meanwhile I hope you, dear readers, are healthy, happy, and safe. And I hope you take steps to protect yourselves (vaccinations, ventilation, masking when important, etc.) and, especially, remember to teach your children well.

JohnL
Beautyville, Earth

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