Margery BLooM
margeatlarge.bsky.social
Margery BLooM
@margeatlarge.bsky.social
Autistic Elder. I raised 2 autistic kids. I teach at a nonpublic autism school.
Do you disclose? DM me if you want to discuss how I handled grad “group” assignments.
I basically ADA’d my way out of them.
December 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
It’s autism here and not memory. No job for 3 years. I’m trying to get him to start application process for SSDI, because it will take forever. It’s the adult children too.
looking up at a bunch of red balloons floating in the air
ALT: looking up at a bunch of red balloons floating in the air
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December 2, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I’m teaching high support need high school aged students. They are 15-17, and they want to do things on their own. I am constantly reminding staff that just because a student is still watching PBSkids doesn’t mean they want you holding their hand on the basketball court, or choosing activities.
December 2, 2025 at 2:13 AM
My friend: presume competence!
December 2, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I’m on that list, I’m sure!
People really hate being reminded that we aren’t ALL of America.
December 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
It’s a powerful tool that allows me to focus on my particular expertise (the individual child, their abilities, strengths, needs, interests, preferences, communication needs) while creating individualized goals with benchmark objectives that can be further tweaked. Drafts great PLOPs.
December 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Skill takes creativity and knowledge of student abilities and school resources.
At any rate, I don’t think my experience is what most people are thinking about when they think “AI written IEP.”
November 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
But…I know that there are people who will plug info in, hit generate, and present whatever comes out to the team. I’m guessing those people have been using goal banks. I use those for ideas too. Writing these docs is hard work. Coming up with just the right way to get a person to learn a particular
November 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
So in short, it was a very collaborative effort, and it wasn’t very time saving. It did allow me to compose a polished draft that required very little editing. It forced me to think about ALL of the factors, not just the critical areas for that student. It made ME do a better job as a useful tool. +
November 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Not only did I have to input all of the pertinent data to generate accurate presentation levels, I then had to review suggested goals to choose which ones to use. I did love the flexibility to edit, research, and change levels within individual goals. +
November 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Scaffolding benchmarks WELL (as opposed to simply increasing quantity of problems or percentage correct), is hard, and I’ve been in education for 39 years. Score 1 for AI. It also wrote a lovely and unnecessary bunch of reports about disability impact.
It did NOT independently write an IEP. +
November 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
…and damned if it didn’t produce a very thorough, very individualized, unique IEP that was actually pretty good. Out of 6 goals, I only had to toss two that were not appropriately leveled, and when it rewrote them, they were perfect. I was especially impressed with how it scaffolded benchmarks. +
November 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
They recently added an AI function. Now, I am NOT A FAN. It gets turned off and denied. But I wanted to make a point to the new teachers, so I took one for the team. It took just as long as going through their other process, because you still need to gather and input information on student. +
November 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I love this.
November 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
In all seriousness, visual schedules are really helpful.
November 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM