How To Get A Job With A Disability & Launch Your Career
Young adults with disabilities may find that starting a career in business is a great option for the future. Starting your own successful business often begins with a solid education and a quality internship. If you’ve been wondering how to get a job with a disability, the journey to starting your own career in business […]
10 Best Practices for Improving and Expanding Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Supports
STUDENT SERVICES By Nathan Levenson, District Management Group on 6/8/2018 While there is much debate about why an increasing number of children come to school with significant social, emotional and behavioral (S, E & B) needs, nearly all districts report the number of children with these challenges is on the rise. In order for students to […]
How to Leverage Your IEP Service Tracking System for Better Progress Monitoring
SPECIAL EDUCATION By Theodora Schiro, on 9/21/2020 Why does progress monitoring matter? School districts need to monitor student progress to assess student outcomes, submit mandated state and federal reports, and in many states, claim Medicaid reimbursements. But progress monitoring can also be used to help identify and support requests for additional staffing needs or pinpoint professional development […]
4 Reasons to Make the Switch to Automated Data Collection for IEP
IEPs function as a support service that helpspecial education students achieve their learning objectives. They are detailed outlines of lessons and goals designed around the needs of each student. Although these learning environments have fewer students per teacher and more individualized attention for each student, special educators spend a large amount of their time and […]
What Is A Trial?
While providing Datability Web training to school districts, I often get asked about trials; What are they? When do you use them? How are they scored? The simple answer is, a trial is one instance of the skill you are trying to teach. For example, if you were trying to teach someone to button their […]
Writing Measurable Goals
I travel to a lot of districts to teach educators how to use Datability Web and, even though my goal is to teach features, I inevitably get asked the question, “How do I write a good goal for (fill in the blank)?. Truth be told, it’s something I struggle with as well. As special educators, […]
Advisory Board
Michael Radicone MsEd – Creator of Datability Michael Radicone is a special education Teacher, Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Therapist, as well as a parent and peer trainer in the Oceanside Union Free School District, Oceanside New York. He graduated with his Master’s in Education from Long Island University, CW Posts’ Competencies in Autism and Special Education […]