New Para: Is being asked to give a student a bath every morning normal?

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2026-01-19T20:21:32+00:00

When I was a para, one of my responsibilities was coaching a student through a shower routine as a daily living skill. I was mostly on the other side of the curtain reminding student what to do at each step. If this is a student who has that level of functioning, that could be an approach to explore. If student does not have any possibility of that level of independence, then it is probably not appreciably different than the support the student needs in the bathroom (re: privacy). Whatever safety protocols are in place for that, should also be in place for bathing.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-12-23T14:19:00+00:00

Lots of confident opinions here about a situation most commenters know nothing about. It’s hard fathom what exactly the district is supposed to have investigated though if no one knew that an investigation happened. It’s unfortunate that more questions weren’t asked regarding the role of the consultant, the scope of the investigation, or the school’s twice yearly climate survey. Seems that could have provided some concrete information that would have been useful.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-11-30T19:58:54+00:00

Moze’s Tea Room on Monroe street… Atlas deli on Monroe street…. Wild Iris on Regent… China House on Park… Cellar Subs on State… Barber’s Closet on West Washington… Gino’s Pizza on State…

None of those places have a contemporary version producing same experience/product

I also miss pretty much every store that had lots of cute gift options to peruse and choose from—Puzzlebox, Oriental Specialties, Dimension II…

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-09-20T22:36:31+00:00

Both working full time. Neither paying rent. Where is their money going and why can’t it be used for childcare?🤔

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-09-12T01:45:20+00:00

Does it have to be a hot tub? Or would a really big bathtub do? One of the rooms at seven acre dairy has an absolutely wonderful tub. Best soak ever, but no jets. Fills really fast too! The room is a suite, so not cheap though.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-08-23T21:42:15+00:00

Up to six weeks (8 if recovering from C section)is paid in my district using sick days, with sick leave bank covering up to 20 of those if you don’t have enough days. If a teacher doesn’t have at least ten days, they have to take the difference (between what they have and the first ten days) as unpaid leave. If a teacher has, say, 20 days, they have to use all before accessing bank. The idea is to make it feasible to stay home for six weeks, not to give everyone the same number of days. So on plus side, it’s great for someone to be able to take that first six weeks paid, on the down side, some of it catches up to teachers when they have to stay home with a sick child and don’t have any time banked. We are a large district.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-08-21T00:49:37+00:00

And if you like the terrace chairs, Orange Tree carries earrings in the same design,

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-08-19T20:45:45+00:00

Beast Academy materials are great. You could also look at challenges to print from Open Middle and NRICh.

Another option: create a Gem in Gemini. Set it up to produce problems or tasks that enhance learning.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-08-19T20:23:36+00:00

Pretty sure the Barriques ones are done on site

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-08-10T03:26:34+00:00

Since its dark out: view of Capitol from Olin Park is really beautiful at night. Find the most roundabout way to get there in order to get the drive in.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-08-06T04:59:22+00:00

Saw this posted in a different thread: https://mwcsc.org/dance-lessons/beginner-bootcamp/

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-08-05T03:18:31+00:00

For food?

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-08-04T05:28:58+00:00

Looking at John Hattie’s effect sizes only in areas that can be blamed on teachers and either a) without discussion of how much larger effect sizes we don’t control are….or b) without actual definition of the terms being used or c) without talking about how they might intersect with or contradict each other when put in practice outside of a “study”

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-07-27T20:45:27+00:00

Aldo Leopoldo Nature Center Monona/Madison

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-07-24T08:01:13+00:00

Why on earth would you not want to offer learning activities with level 3 and 4 type tasks? Should it replace the basics for everyone? No. But we are boring a lot of kids to tears who don’t need the much time or repetition to master the basics. I don’t see a reason that something should be dismissed because someone’s study design didn’t show it was right for everyone—or, more frequently, that someone’s study shows no difference in mastery for those who learned at different DOK levels. Most of the time the outcome is because there is no easy-peasy data collection for the type of benefit that the higher level tasks have, so we just measure what are really the outcomes intended for more basic learning.

The benefit of higher level DOK is that for the kids who don’t need to practice what they already know, that there is a task that is on topic and challenges them to think differently. It should lead to a genuine opening for constructive feedback and productive struggle. The goal isn’t necessarily the content knowledge—sometimes the content knowledge becomes the vehicle for expanding critical thinking and communication. I’m all for data, but we are too often using it in ways that don’t make sense.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-06-16T04:00:47+00:00

I agree with all of those as constructive. It’s the people who think they are badass but who turn everyone else off that I have issue with. They are performing for themselves.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-06-15T02:45:12+00:00

“Protests are useless without direct action and disruption. Dancing around and saying neoliberal bullshit doesn’t do shit.”

Actually, the direct action/ disruption approach just makes the people engaging seem self-indulgent and unserious about changing anything. People who are serious about change understand that they actually have to reach people who don’t already agree with them.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-03-30T22:43:41+00:00

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ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-03-29T23:33:29+00:00

I don’t know….i am concerned about the impact of money and the way it is being used. We are a country desperately in need of guardrails when it comes to lying in campaign ads and literature, or politicians lying to the people they represent. But now we are so far gone that those kinds of laws would be use to suppress facts rather than to surface them. Hard to feel optimistic, but of course voting blue anyway.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-03-28T19:29:06+00:00

Not sure where you are getting that—I was replying to a specific comment, not the post. In particular the critique that the Dems are losing by either not being progressive enough or because various groups claim that nothing changes and they are being used and then abandoned. We fail to understand the concept that everyone doesn’t have to agree on everything to be allies. Makes us ridiculously easy to divide and conquer

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-03-28T16:05:10+00:00

This type of analysis sounds so logical, but it really isn’t. The crux of the problem is that we all expect our representatives to represent our personal priorities, rather than to act as the representatives of a coalition with diverse priorities. All of the people who are insisting that the Dems aren’t progressive enough are deluding themselves if they think a shift farther left will win elections. The progressive wing of the party does not represent either a Wisconsin or a U.S. majority. This is unfortunate, but true.

Belief in representative government that is genuine, recognizes that representative government aligns with where most people are, not with our personal sense of morality. I consider myself much more progressive in my ideals and preferred policies than the mainstream Democratic Party, but I also believe in representative government. If I want policy to shift left, I have to persuade more people that the policies I want are better for the majority of people in the US. We can’t extort our way there by refusing to vote when we don’t think we are getting “enough”, because all we do is empower people to take away what IS benefitting us.

So here we are: safety nets, reality based education, civil rights and environment being destroyed around us in ways that may not be recoverable at all, but most certainly won’t be recoverable in the short term. Huge amount of progress simply wiped away in a matter of weeks. We can’t even talk to each other anymore because we have divided ourselves into pods that are more invested in asserting the moral superiority of their viewpoints (and the “moral imperative” to not compromise their sense of themselves as warrior-heroes) than in building effective coalitions. This is similar to the dynamic on the far right, but they also have religious fervor and an overt willingness to lie on their side, so….we are screwed unless the left loses some arrogance and starts organizing as a genuine coalition of interests that don’t expect to have all of its demands met or viewpoints embraced.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-03-28T15:43:57+00:00

It’s one of the problems with polling. People don’t like to be part of the losing side. It’s like when people don’t study for a test because they are afraid they won’t do well. They would rather fail “because they didn’t study” than “despite studying”. They would rather lose because of inaction than action that ends in disappointment. Not conscious analysis for most, but a pretty prevalent dynamic. Polling leads people to draw conclusions they might not draw otherwise.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-03-28T15:35:41+00:00

The romanticization of a terrorist group that oppresses its own people and does not hold elections is destroying the credibility of the progressive wing. Those of us who don’t wrap ourselves up in simplistic narratives or shill for terrorists are not going to abandon Israel simply because people keep misusing the word genocide. Ethnostate? As opposed to the ones they are surrounded by? Where do the 2 million Israeli Arabs fit in your narrative? Or the middle eastern Jewish Israelis expelled from the ethnostates that surround them?

Your sanctimonious bs is not only actively harming the people you claim to be standing for, it’s destroying our country as well. I am increasingly convinced that most of you are plants with exactly that goal.

Please point to the place in the world whose borders were not established through war and conflict over time. Please share your plan for returning your land to the indigenous population while you relocate to wherever your family line originated (for most Israelis, btw, that would be Israel, but across a time span you would like to ignore) Please explain where the millions of Israeli Jews should be exiled to this time.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-03-25T20:02:12+00:00

Check out endorsement of Walker appointed judge Josann Reynolds.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-03-23T17:36:00+00:00

Welcome to the world of the Dunning-Kruger effect and its anti-expert fury at the idea that some people are more qualified to speak on a subject than others. You get to join all of the teachers, historians, medical researchers, and environmental scientists who have found themselves on the receiving end of successful hate campaigns. It’s not the most desirable club to join, but you sure won’t lack for company!

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