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“Appears Fine” Is Not a Present Level
Monday morning, the IEP is already live. Not a draft for October. Not a file that lives in a cabinet. IDEA says each public agency must have an IEP in effect at the start of the school year, and that IEP has to be accessible to the teachers and providers who implement it. The starting GPS is not a grade, a score, or a hallway impression. It is present levels of academic achievement and functional performance. If that statement only records how the student “appears fine,” the
Sunday Morning Is a Sensory Event
Sunday morning is a sensory event. The usher whispers. The band starts. Someone offers a hand you did not ask for. You make it to the car and someone says, “We tried.” That sentence is not a failure of faith. It is a report on the room. The sanctuary was not designed as a sensory plan Lights stay up. Music does not drop. Incense or a neighbor’s perfume does not wait. A greeting expects eye contact. A body is told when to stand. The Autism Faith Network’s 2026 toolkit names th
“We Never See That Here”: After-School Collapse
The teacher says it was a great day. The same student walks in the door and falls apart. You sit in the conference and hear “we never see that here,” and it sounds like two different kids. It is not two kids. It is not bad parenting. It is the bill for a day of holding it together. After-school collapse is school data. The two-kid problem Andrea Loewen Nair, a counselor and parenting educator, named what parents kept telling her: kids who hold it in all day and come undone on
“I Can’t” Is Information
School starts with a list. The week starts with demands.
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