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Tips for Recruiting and Retaining Specialized Instructional Support Personnel (SISP)
In Case - Jan. – Mar. 2012 edition
National Coalition on Personnel Shortages in Special Education and Related Services co-chairperson, Susan Karr, writes about the challenges faces by SISP and the need for these positions in schools.
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Creative ... motivating’ and fired
The Washington Post
By the end of her second year at MacFarland Middle School, fifth-grade teacher Sarah Wysocki was coming into her own. “It is a pleasure to visit a classroom in which the elements of sound teaching, motivated students and a positive learning environment are so effectively combined,” Assistant Principal Kennard Branch wrote in her May 2011 evaluation. He urged Wysocki to share her methods with colleagues at the D.C. public school. Other observations of her classroom that year yielded good ratings. Two months later, she was fired. Wysocki, 31, was let go because the reading and math scores of her students didn’t grow as predicted.
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Did school nurse shortage lead to girl's death?
With a national shortage of school nurses, Priya David Clemens profiles one family who lost their daughter to an asthma attack. Amy Garcia of the American Nurses Association speaks about the school nursing shortage.
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