Teaching Exceptionally Podcasts

In this episode of Research2Practice, Brandi Ansley joins us to talk about the importance of stress management for teachers. Stress affects your body, your job performance, and the learning outcomes of your students, so listen as Brandi describes how you can implement a Self-directed Stress Management Plan that will benefit you and your students.

Brandi Ansley is a researcher at Georgia State University College of Education. She also conducts workshops for Atlanta area educators on topics such as stress management, interpersonal communication, and social-emotional skills. She co-authored a recent article in TEACHING Exceptional Children entitled, “Optimizing Special Educator Wellness and Job Performance Through Stress Management.”

In this episode of Research2Practice, Seth King and Chris Lemons discuss the results of their synthesis of literature relating to math interventions for students with ASD, strategies that seem to promote positive student outcomes, how teachers can identify effective practices to implement in the classroom, and resources for identifying evidence-based practices in mathematics.

Seth King, an Assistant Professor at Tennessee Technological University’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and Chris Lemons, an Assistant Professor of Special Education at Peabody College at Vanderbilt University.

In this episode of Research2Practice, Holly Lane and Paige Cullen Pullen are with us to talk about why blending wheels work and how we can use them to help struggling readers with decoding.

Holly Lane is an associate professor in the College of Education at the University of Florida. Paige Cullen Pullen is an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. They are the authors of a recent article in TEACHING Exceptional Children entitled, “Blending wheels: Tools for decoding practice.”

In this episode of Research2Practice, Matthew E. Brock is here to talk about what new research can tell us about using teacher-trained paraprofessionals to implement peer support arrangements for students with severe disabilities.

Matthew Brock is an assistant professor of special education at The Ohio State University and a faculty associate at the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy. He has two major lines of research. First, he studies the effects of practitioner training on implementation of evidence-based practice and outcomes for students with significant disabilities. Second, he studies avenues for supporting the inclusion of students with significant disabilities in general education classrooms.

In this episode of Research to Practice, researchers Cindy Sherman and Susan De La Paz talk about FIX, a writing revision strategy that helps novice writers make better rather than more changes as they revise their work.

Cindy K. Sherman is the founder and director of The Write Turn®, an evidence-based program that helps novice and struggling writers plan, write, and revise narrative and expository essays. She is also a speech-language pathologist at E.L. Haynes Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. Susan De La Paz is an associate professor of special education at the College of Education, University of Maryland, College Park. She has expertise in developing and validating reading and writing interventions for adolescents with learning disabilities. She has worked for 15 years with middle and high school teachers, developing writing and history curriculum interventions for students with diverse academic abilities.

In this episode, you’ll hear what you need to prepare for your first IEP meetings from legal expert Julie Weatherly.

Julie Weatherly, Esq. is the owner of Resolutions in Special Education, Inc., and has provided legal representation and consultative services in the area of educating students with disabilities for 30 years.

In this episode, co-teaching expert Marilyn Friend is here to talk about some of the biggest challenges facing new co-teachers—and how you can solve them.

Marilyn Friend is an internationally renowned author and speaker, and a Past President of CEC. She is currently the professor emerita of education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

In this episode, we’re talking with Catherine Creighton Martin and Clara Hauth, authors of the brand-new edition of The Survival Guide for New Special Education Teachers, a handbook full of realistic strategies teacher candidates and new teachers need to succeed in their first years in the classroom – and beyond. You’ve got the right stuff to be a special educator, but Catherine and Clara want to give you a helping hand.

Catherine Creighton Martin is the mother of a child with a disability, and currently teaches students with disabilities at Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, and is an adjunct professor at George Mason University. Clara Hauth is an assistant professor of special education at Marymount University, with more than 10 years of public school service as a special education classroom teacher and as a lead mentor for new teachers.