Surviving the System: NaBloPoMo?

Friday, October 28, 2011

NaBloPoMo?

trying to blog

So the month of November is looking to be especially busy - college applications, Girl Scout cookies, Thanksgiving, House of Ruth Adopt a Family drive at work... I'd have to be crazy to to add anything to that mix... so why not commit to posting once a day, every day?

National Blog Posting Month is a Blogher thing, as far as I can tell. You can look here for info and here for FAQs. Spur of the moment, hopefully along with four fellow Baltimore Education Bloggers (1, 2, 3 and 4), I'm going to post every day.

I'm also making a commitment to check out my NaBloPoMo buddies and comment and link to their posts.

I'm not promising long posts, but I will post. In reality, the chaos of the month should make it easier to post...how college essays are adding stress to my marriage, 504 meetings, cleaning up the house for Thanksgiving with the extended family, beginning of the Special Hockey season. I could probably come up with 30 topics right now.

OK, I'm feeling psyched and confident - NaBloPoMo, here I come.

2 comments:

AnonymousOctober 28, 2011 at 12:15 AM
"I'd have to be crazy" - yes, but so are we all. :-)

Thanks for joining in the fun (and for encouraging me to do it too)!
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Laura YOctober 28, 2011 at 4:18 PM
I'm looking forward to reading everyone's posts!
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About this blog

This will be anonymous because schools can be pretty political, but hopefully constructive. My eldest child entered Kindergarten 16 years ago and I figure I've got another 4.5 years until my youngest finishes. By this fall between the three children we've been enrolled in eight different schools. There have been CST meetings, IEP meetings, PTO meetings, PTA meetings, fund raisers and vast quantities of homework. We are in public schools because we believe that justice starts with a decent free education for all and if I want decent public education being personally involved is the first step.

Glossary and Acronym List

Autism Spectrum - the spread of behaviors that define autistics. The primary areas are difficulties with communication, social interactions and change/lack of order. You can see the official diagnosis criteria here.
CST - Child Support Team, a group (including parents) that meets when a student is having difficulties
ESY - Extended School Year. In our experience, related to special needs kids who go to school over breaks because there will be significant regression in skills over the break if they weren't in a school setting.
FAPE - Free Appropriate Public Education. This is the right of every American child, but is usually a term about creating or finding a learning environment that works for a special needs student.
IEP - Individualized Education Plan. A written plan of goals and ways to achieve them. Typically for special needs students
PTO & PTA - Parent Teacher Organization & Association
SST - Student Support Team, I guess this is the new term that replaces CST