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Big News: We're Moving to a New Home!

 Hey everyone, I need to share something exciting with you. After years of writing here on Blogspot, FUNSHINE (Digital Anthology) is moving to a brand new home! If you've been following along, you know I've always been honest about what works and what doesn't in my special education classroom. Well, I'm about to take my own advice about growth and change. Why I'm Making This Move A few weeks ago, I was sitting at my desk after school, looking at the blog analytics. I noticed something frustrating: teachers were searching for exactly the kind of strategies I write about—differentiation for ELL students, AI tools for IEP writing, reading interventions that actually work—but they weren't finding my posts. It hit me the same way it did when I realized "teaching to the middle" wasn't working for my students. I had good content, but it was living on a platform that couldn't keep up with how teachers search for help in 2026. Here's what was ...

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