Career Readiness

The 54th annual PDK Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools finds that only 37% of respondents would like for their children to become teachers in their community, despite a record...

My name is Sean Phelan and I am a high school special education teacher for a school district in the suburbs of Kansas City. This past May I finished my third year of teaching. As many educators know...

Today, the U.S. Department of Education announced an invitation to apply for a new pilot program designed to connect more people with disabilities to well-paying jobs.

Nicole Johnson is a special education teacher at the Lake Area Career and Technology Center in Devils Lake, ND. She has a passion for helping transition-aged students with intellectual disabilities learn employability skills. She does this through a community-based career education program where students learn through paid employment and a classroom-based business called DIFY (Do It For You).

This year, Anna is working in an adaptive curriculum classroom serving students between kindergarten and 5th grade. Her ultimate goal is to transition into school psychology. Her path to the special education classroom includes being a PETAC grant recipient and training in the Orton-Gillingham reading program. Anna holds a Master’s degree in teaching special education from North Carolina A&T and currently educates youth at Hall-Woodward Elementary in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The 2020-2021 school year marks her third career year in special education.