Students with disabilities are not exempt from testing including standardized tests. This is good because we want our students to be held to the highest of standards as well and be able to compete with their non disabled peers. Join us in a discussion about assessment and accountability, particularly as it [...]
For the third consecutive year, WatchDOGS Radio will be broadcasting LIVE from the convention floor of the 2015 National PTA Convention. This year, the convention is in Charlotte, N.C. Please join WatchDOGS Radio host Keith Schumacher and Watch D.O.G.S. Executive Director Eric Snow as they discuss the events of this [...]
We visit the Miracle League of Montgomery County, MD at their season closing game. Held at the Germantown Soccer Plex on an adaptive baseball field hosts baseball games for children of all abilities on Saturdays during the Spring. Funded and run by the Kiwanis Club of Bethesda, the Miracle League brings our [...]
Watch D.O.G.S. is the school based father involvement initiative of the National Center for Fathering. Tune in ans see what dads all over the country are doing for their local schools. Today, we will discuss the efforts that parents and administrators can make over the summer to be ready to [...]
Newtown’s Trees is an allegory about the 2012 tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, using the town’s beloved trees cut down by the protagonist as the central theme. It is a book that can be appreciated on several levels; by adults who know the horrific details of the events that took place [...]
Kim Bearden was selected from over 70,000 nominations to be honored as the Disney American Teacher Awards Outstanding Middle School Humanities Teacher. The Milken Family Foundation selected her as one of 155 teachers from across the nation to receive the Award for Excellence in Education, and she was chosen from [...]
We are launching our Teacher Tuesday feature with one of the most well known superstars of the teacher blogging world! We are so proud to have Deanna Jump as our guest this week on WatchDOGS Radio. Deanna is an award winning teacher. She has taught Kindergarten and First Grade for [...]
When I was growing up, being a programmer was not widely considered a path to career success. We were encouraged to become lawyers and doctors... maybe accountants... if we were good at math. I know that is a generalization, but that was the stereotype then. Computers and programming were [...]
Photography quite simply comes from the combination of “photo” meaning light and “graph” meaning writing. Light writing all comes down to having knowledge of two things, your shutter and your aperture. A shutter is a door that opens and closes in your camera, it’s that sound you hear in old [...]
