Book Review: Comprehensive Literacy for All

By Tim LaCourt, M.A. | February 4, 2025

In Comprehensive Literacy for All, Karen Erickson and David Koppenhaver present a compelling, research-based approach to ensuring that students with significant disabilities have access to meaningful literacy instruction. Their central…

Behavior Strategies for Distance Learning

By Tim LaCourt, M.A. | October 22, 2020

Classroom management during in-person instruction is challenging; with distance learning, the management of student online behavior and emotions is even tougher. Certainly, there are school rules and disciplinary procedures that…

Differentiating Instruction Ideas for Electives Teachers

By Tim LaCourt, M.A. | September 10, 2020

Recent work with secondary electives teachers on the topic of Differentiated Instruction revealed high interest in this area, as well as a desire for information specific to their discipline. After…

We are Reading…Total Participation Techniques

By Tim LaCourt, M.A. | May 13, 2014

(2011) Written By:ย  Drs. Persida Himmele and William Himmele.1 In classrooms across this country, students with disabilities and those who struggle for a variety of reasons are often the students…

A Missing Link

By Tim LaCourt, M.A. | April 8, 2013

In my career as a special education teacher, curriculum supervisor, and then principal, Inclusion was a priority focus; however, there always seemed to be a missing link in the process…