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One short note a week from a former director of special education and a speech-language pathologist. A real situation from a school, what it says about the work nobody counts, and one thing to try that week. Free, and we never sell you anything here.
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A short, captioned lesson on the four stages districts move through in measuring staff workload. Find where your district stands.
Watch the lessonBoard-ready slides, a one-page brief, a letter you can adapt for your legislators, and the open data behind them, with sources.
Get the toolkitFederal special education data for every state and district on the Special Education Observatory, ready for a board meeting.
Find your stateA real situation from a district or a classroom, told by someone who has held the job. About five minutes to read.
Every issue ends with one small, practical step you can take that week, whether you lead a district or carry a caseload.
When we use a figure, we say where it comes from. Much of it comes from the Special Education Observatory, our free public data site.
Special education leaders across six states said a version of the same sentence: they are accountable for numbers they cannot actually reach.
Read The Same Sentence, in Every StateA preschool speech-language pathologist's full schedule hid the work that came with every new three-year-old.
Read The Hours That Never Made the ScheduleWhy a skill taught in one room needs practice where it has to work, and the question worth asking about where services happen.
Read How Would You Grid This?Two white papers on how special education measures its workforce, with full references and free to cite.
Read The Measurement GapPick your role when you sign up and we will send a short welcome series written for the work you do.