How can I as a Special Educator take my understanding and application of best instructional practices and methods (pedagogy) to uncharted territory? How can I ensure I am still innovating for the benefit of my students? What are the metrics to stay effective as an Executive Function Skills Coach to infants, kids and adults with executive function skill deficits, ADD/ADHD or autism? Can athleticism become an analogy for the abstract and concrete challenges and obstacles individuals face on a daily basis? Recently, a student I mentor and coach climbed Mount Kilimanjaro with his father. The teenager has a form of high-functioning autism referred to as Asperger's. Don't tell him though. He likes to act like that is no big sweat. He wants to climb the seven summits of the world and has just completed 1/7th of his journey by reaching his first summit with Kilimanjaro. His trip involved brutal cold, 12-14 hour days of hiking in thin air conditions and moving only at night to avoid sl...
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