This Q&A provides a brief overview of the responsibility of public schools to provide and pay for a student’s assistive technology under the federal IDEA law and Section 504.
There are many people at your child’s school who are there to help your child learn, grow socially and emotionally, and navigate the school environment. Here’s a selected list of who’s who at your school: the teaching and administrative staff as well as organizations at the district level. You might want to keep this list handy all year long.
Whether they are big or small, furry or feathered, live on land or sea or somewhere in between, animals are fascinating! Read more about them and also about some of the people who study them. You’ll discover the wild and the wonderful between the pages of these books!
Caldecott-winner Mo Willems grew up in New Orleans. He spent much of his youth telling stories and drawing. Willems especially loved reading “Peanuts” comics and then sketching Snoopy and Charlie Brown himself. “I even wrote a letter to Charles Schulz,” Willems recalls, “saying that I wanted his job when he died.” During high school, Willems acted in plays and started doing standup routines at comedy clubs.