Charting Uncharted Waters: Special Education in the Days of COVID

In this episode, teacher candidate Kellie Randazzo interviews this year’s local Special Educator of the Year, Alyssa Mosier from Bourbonnais School District 53.. Alyssa explains how her school has implemented a hybrid of both in person and remote learning and shares how she has adapted through the shifts between teaching at home and school and how the students have handled these new experiences.

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In this episode, Dr. Stipp interviews the local Novice Special Educator of the Year, Paige Sylvester. Paige walks us through the experience of thinking about her high school students’ changing needs in spring 2020. She also walks us through a “day in the life” of her classroom in fall, 2020.

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In this episode, Dr. Brian Stipp and Professor Tonya Peterson discuss the vision for the podcast. The two professors talk about the nature of special education as a problem solving profession, and the unique challenges posed by COVID-19. Prof. Peterson also tells a heart-warming story of her goodbye to students on the last day before the schools shut down.

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