Shanon Taylor
@drspedinnv.bsky.social
Professor of special education at Univ. of NV, Reno. All posts mine. Former teacher of E/BD students. Mom, WIFE + 🐈⬛
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8542-1765
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ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8542-1765
https://www.unr.edu/education/about/faculty-and-staff/department-educator-preparation/shanon-taylor
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Shanon Taylor
@drspedinnv.bsky.social
· Nov 8
Low-Intensity Strategies: Proactive Behavior and Classroom Management That Work for Adolescents
Many middle and high school teachers report struggling with behavior and classroom management. Teachers often resort to reactive strategies, intervening only after disruptive behavior occurs, and o...
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New article on using low-intensity behavioral strategies with a focus on older students! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DGWUG...
As you wish - it’s a twofer
December 6, 2025 at 5:22 AM
As you wish - it’s a twofer
December 4, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
A reminder that disability is global and the largest minority in the world. Let’s keep building a world where access, dignity, and belonging come first!
A reminder that disability is global and the largest minority in the world. Let’s keep building a world where access, dignity, and belonging come first!
December 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
A reminder that disability is global and the largest minority in the world. Let’s keep building a world where access, dignity, and belonging come first!
A reminder that disability is global and the largest minority in the world. Let’s keep building a world where access, dignity, and belonging come first!
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The administration is extorting universities for billions of dollars and attempting to destroy free speech, academic freedom, and independent thought but the Atlantic talked to a few professors at elite universities who think the problem is that some students need a little extra time on exams
December 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The administration is extorting universities for billions of dollars and attempting to destroy free speech, academic freedom, and independent thought but the Atlantic talked to a few professors at elite universities who think the problem is that some students need a little extra time on exams
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We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.
December 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.
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So they're just transparently starting the drumbeat against a new vilified group just like they did with trans athletes, racial minority students, MeToo/BLM/anti-genocide activists, etc. right?
There always needs to be a group who's "unfairly taking your kid's spot"
There always needs to be a group who's "unfairly taking your kid's spot"
Even by the standards of The Atlantic, this is an extraordinarily weak evidence base for an article.
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
So they're just transparently starting the drumbeat against a new vilified group just like they did with trans athletes, racial minority students, MeToo/BLM/anti-genocide activists, etc. right?
There always needs to be a group who's "unfairly taking your kid's spot"
There always needs to be a group who's "unfairly taking your kid's spot"
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The last person I want to hear from about how disability accommodations "have gone too far" in higher ed are a bunch of privileged able-bodied journalists who cannot see the forest for the trees, but also are feeding the omnipresent ableism disabled people face with this crap.
I don't think people realize how much the use of academic disability accommodations has exploded over the past decade—especially at the most elite schools. More than 20 percent of Harvard and Stanford students apparently receive some form of accommodation:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Accommodation Nation
America’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem.
www.theatlantic.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The last person I want to hear from about how disability accommodations "have gone too far" in higher ed are a bunch of privileged able-bodied journalists who cannot see the forest for the trees, but also are feeding the omnipresent ableism disabled people face with this crap.
A day late, but a reminder for World AIDS Day: Sexual health education should include youth with disabilities. Disability does not make one an asexual being. aahivm.ygsclicbook.com/pubs/hiv-spe...
Fall 2023
Fall 2023
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December 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A day late, but a reminder for World AIDS Day: Sexual health education should include youth with disabilities. Disability does not make one an asexual being. aahivm.ygsclicbook.com/pubs/hiv-spe...
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👋 Call for sources: My name is Julia Métraux, and I am @motherjones.com disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging independently while taking care of your health. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Aging with complex chronic illnesses and disabilities at home
Hi! My name is Julia Métraux, and I am Mother Jones' disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging ind...
docs.google.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
👋 Call for sources: My name is Julia Métraux, and I am @motherjones.com disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging independently while taking care of your health. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
An excellent rundown of the impact of the attacks on the Dept of Education this year.
A lot has happened this year. If you'd like a recap of what's happened to education research and statistics, here's my attempt. This might be a good one to listen to on your commute today. (Audio play button below headline. 16 minutes long.) hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
How Trump 2.0 upended education research and statistics in one year
Decades of carefully built infrastructure aimed at improving and tracking how American children learn vanished in an ideological attack
hechingerreport.org
December 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
An excellent rundown of the impact of the attacks on the Dept of Education this year.
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Saturday was the 50th anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). I wrote about how the law helped make me who I am today and how losing it's protections may stifle the talent of generations of disabled individuals after me. www.the74million.org/article/weak...
Weakening the IDEA Threatens Millions of Disabled Americans Like Me
Ives-Rublee: Federal law made it possible for disabled students like me to go to school. Those opportunities may vanish for the next generation.
www.the74million.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Saturday was the 50th anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). I wrote about how the law helped make me who I am today and how losing it's protections may stifle the talent of generations of disabled individuals after me. www.the74million.org/article/weak...
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Walz on Trump calling him the r-word: "We all know both as an educator & parent that using that term is just so damaging. It's hurtful. We have fought 3 decades to get this out of our schools. Kids know better. But this is what Donald Trump has done. He's normalized this type of hateful behavior."
November 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Walz on Trump calling him the r-word: "We all know both as an educator & parent that using that term is just so damaging. It's hurtful. We have fought 3 decades to get this out of our schools. Kids know better. But this is what Donald Trump has done. He's normalized this type of hateful behavior."
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Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. He has brought the office down so low in such a short time. Other presidents have tried but none have come close to this.
November 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. He has brought the office down so low in such a short time. Other presidents have tried but none have come close to this.
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The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) turns 50 today.
I fear it could be the last year the law is intact.
It was never fully funded by any administration, nor is it a perfect solution for inclusion. But its existence has been a vital path to education access.
We must protect it.
I fear it could be the last year the law is intact.
It was never fully funded by any administration, nor is it a perfect solution for inclusion. But its existence has been a vital path to education access.
We must protect it.
November 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) turns 50 today.
I fear it could be the last year the law is intact.
It was never fully funded by any administration, nor is it a perfect solution for inclusion. But its existence has been a vital path to education access.
We must protect it.
I fear it could be the last year the law is intact.
It was never fully funded by any administration, nor is it a perfect solution for inclusion. But its existence has been a vital path to education access.
We must protect it.
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November 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Grateful for those who refuse to give up.
Is education a lost cause?
No, it's THE cause, the pièce de résistance of democratic living.
Give up on it, you give in to the banality and brutality of evil.
No, it's THE cause, the pièce de résistance of democratic living.
Give up on it, you give in to the banality and brutality of evil.
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Grateful for those who refuse to give up.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The girls want to tell everyone to sleep tight #catsofbluesky
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 AM
The girls want to tell everyone to sleep tight #catsofbluesky
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The Office for Civil Rights was gutted. Parents filing disability rights complaints will struggle to get help. Many will need private lawyers, but there aren't enough. Families are taking out second mortgages. https://bit.ly/4a1RT0q
Special Education Services At Risk Under Department of Education Cuts - EdSurge News
Department of Education cuts leave advocates and parents worried about the fate of special education services.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The Office for Civil Rights was gutted. Parents filing disability rights complaints will struggle to get help. Many will need private lawyers, but there aren't enough. Families are taking out second mortgages. https://bit.ly/4a1RT0q
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Weingarten: Take a step back and think about the priorities. Where are children and young people in any of these priorities? The only time they talk about children and young people is when Linda McMahon gets on TV or writes an op-ed about her next steps in cutting the Department of Education…
November 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Weingarten: Take a step back and think about the priorities. Where are children and young people in any of these priorities? The only time they talk about children and young people is when Linda McMahon gets on TV or writes an op-ed about her next steps in cutting the Department of Education…
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As we and others have repeatedly reported, credible researchers have said there is no link between vaccines and autism.
CDC plans study on vaccines and autism despite research showing no link
President Donald Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have repeatedly raised the idea that autism could be linked to vaccines.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
As we and others have repeatedly reported, credible researchers have said there is no link between vaccines and autism.
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
I think the problem is, it feels like we’ve GOT to be on year four right now.
I stand by this. Don’t try to handicap the 2028 election. Let’s just get through this first year of the Trump administration!
“There are just so many things that have happened in the last six months in this presidential administration that to think that we know what the issues will be in 2028 and who the players will be—I think it's just asking too much,” says @sgadarian.bsky.social.
www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
November 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I think the problem is, it feels like we’ve GOT to be on year four right now.