MzTeachuh: Special Education News

 

Families of Special Education students participate in open forum discussions.

Parents, Advocates Split on U.S. Special Ed Change

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2026-09-04/trump-upends-special-education-oversight-stirring-parents-and-advocates

What’s Next in Special Education: What Every Educator Should Know for the Year Ahead

https://exceptionalchildren.org/blog/whats-next-special-education-what-every-educator-should-know-year-ahead 

Families of kids with disabilities warn Education Department changes could break a flawed system

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/families-of-kids-with-disabilities-warn-education-department-changes-could-break-a-flawed-system

Exploring special education for English language learners and their families

https://www.understood.org/en/blog/exploring-special-education-for-english-language-learners-and-their-families

Using Edtech Tools to Support Neurodivergent Learners

https://www.edutopia.org/article/tools-support-neurodivergent-learners

Is This The Most Cheerful Music Ever?

 

This is such cheerful music, it even makes the dog smile.

Amazing that Swing Music was birthed during the Great Depression, 

then kept swinging during WWII.

1. Benny Goodman Sing Sing Sing from Hollywood Hotel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mJ4dpNal_k

Benny Goodman: clarinet

Harry James, Ziggy Elman, and Chris Griffin: trumpets
Red Ballard and Vernon Brown: trombones
Hymie Schertzer and George Koenig; alto saxophones
Art Rollini and Babe Russin: tenor saxophones
Jess Stacy: piano
Allan Reuss: guitar
Harry Goodman: bass
Gene Krupa: drums
Composed by Louis Prima

2. Bach Brandenburg 3 complete. Abbado.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLj_gMBqHX8

3. The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand (Ed Sullivan ) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jenWdylTtzs

4. Stevie Wonder - I Wish Lyrics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skmodkj42eE

5.  Mozart " Eine kleine Nachtmusik" Allegro 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb_jQBgzU-I

6. Happy  Pharrell Williams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM 

7.  Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs069dndIYk

MzTeachuh: New Info on Phonics

 

What is ‘Linguistic’ Phonics and Why Are Some Schools Adopting It?

It’s emerging as a teaching method—and subject of debate

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/what-is-linguistic-phonics-and-why-are-some-schools-adopting-it/2026/08

Is phonics getting way too much airtime?

https://hollykorbey.substack.com/p/is-phonics-getting-way-too-much-airtime?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=235252&post_id=212059302&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=d548x&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

A New Phonics Debate Shows How the ‘Science of Reading’ Movement Is Evolving

Debate about ‘linguistic’ phonics signals rising interest in using best practices in classrooms

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/a-new-phonics-debate-shows-how-the-science-of-reading-movement-is-evolving/2026/08

Mzteachuh: The Lasting Legacy of Rita Pierson’s ‘Every Kid Needs a Champion’

 The Lasting Legacy of Rita Pierson’s ‘Every Kid Needs a Champion’

More than a decade after Rita Pierson stepped onto the TED stage and declared, “Every child deserves a champion,” her words still echo through schools, teacher prep programs and staff meetings across the country.

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/66425/the-lasting-legacy-of-rita-piersons-every-kid-needs-a-champion?utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=20260719_News_MindShift_Newsletter&utm_content=20260816_News_MindShift_Newsletter+0884725367

Original TED talk

Every kid needs a champion

https://www.ted.com/talks/rita_pierson_every_kid_needs_a_champion

Mzteachuh's Five Minute Bible Study: Pushing Up like a Flower (Luke 21:28)

 

Photosynthesis of the spirit-that's what we need. Moving to the light, upward to the sun's power--where our life is restored and enhanced. In the cold and darkness, look up, your redemption--the Son--draweth nigh (Luke 21:28) with energy and life.

Weeping, like a freezing winter storm of loss,disappointment, immobilizing depression, may endure for a night. But the sunrise, joy, warmth, and growth, cometh in the morning, Psalm 30:50

Just as the struggle of a buried seed struggles and pushes the enormous weight of soil in the desperate need for the sun, we are covered with the weight of calamities we seemingly cannot get through, until we do, with God's help and we look up because our redemption HATH draweth nigh. We have a springtime of joy after what seemed like a never ending winter. 

I'm reaching out to you, Lord, reaching out my hand for security and guidance. I believe this time will end and I have your promise of days of warmth and growth. In Jesus' Name. Amen

Mzteachuh's Five Minute Bible Study: Plans to Support You Jer. 29:11

What a peaceful feeling to know someone has good thoughts for you and is thinking about your well-being. Not someone critical, mocking, or planning to hurt or ridicule. Not someone who enjoys to point out failure or weakness. Not someone wanting to take advantage. 

And the best part in this verse is that Someone is able to really bring safety and the best way forward. Life can be really tough. A supportive someone can help melt anxiety and systematically reveal the one-step-at-a-time way to unloose the knotty problems we're tied up in. Jesus does that. I don't know how, but His Spirit will inspire effective ways to bring an effective solution(s) to really difficult situations.

A hope, an expectation of good things from Jesus who has them in mind for you. 

"Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near." Isaiah 55:6 Take a deep breath, speak to Him. Ask Him what's next. Look at your Bible app (or actual Bible, if you still use one.) There's that arm around your shoulder, the word of peace, the answer.

Poem in Your Pocket Day on Thursday 4/30

 

Somehow Annabel Lee should be in the back pocket of a pair of Levis.

Poem in Your Pocket Day takes place every year on a day in National Poetry Month. The 2026 Poem in Your Pocket Day will take place on Thursday, April 30. 

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Poem in Your Pocket Day

A Program of National Poetry Month

 https://poets.org/national-poetry-month/poem-your-pocket-day

Participate in Poem in Your Pocket Day!

 http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/participate-poem-your-pocket-20720.html

Is that a poem in your pocket?

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/04/is-that-a-poem-in-your-pocket

 

 

Here is my very first Poem in my Pocket: Longfellow's 'The Rainy Day.'