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🚨 Attention Parents! 🚨

The Diverse Learners Recovery Fund is offering a $500 one-time grant to eligible K-12 students with disabilities in Chicago! 💸

If your child has a disability and meets the eligibility requirements, don’t miss this chance to apply before the deadline extended to November 15th! 🌟

Eligibility:

• Live in Chicago 🏙️
• Household income under 300% of
Federal Poverty Level 💵
• Enrolled in K-12 Public or Private
School 🎒
• Disability covered by the ADA ♿️

👉 Up to 2 eligible students per household can apply.

With only 8,000 students being selected through a lottery, apply NOW to give your family a chance! To date, 1,000 students have already been awarded. Don’t wait—act fast!

Learn more and apply here: www.AdaMOPD.com

For questions, contact:
📧 [email protected]
📞 (312) 561-6965

Home Page MOPD - Cash Assistance We encourage Chicago families of students with disabilities to apply for a chance to receive a one-time financial assistance payment.

The Life of a Special Educator!

(1/3) “I got my first classroom when I was twenty-two. I was so young at the time. I think I first went into special education imagining that I’d be hanging out with kids all day. I’ve been teaching for ten years now. Special education is a lot more exhausting than I imagined. It’s like a performance. You need to be ‘on’ the entire day. You need to be strict. You need to always say the right thing and respond in just the right way. I do enjoy it, but in a different way than I imagined. Many of my students come from broken places. Some are homeless or live in foster homes. So the gains come slowly and can be difficult to track. But I get joy from seeing my students want to learn. It’s very fulfilling for me if I can inspire my students to want to read a little better, or get a job, or be kinder to their classmate. It can be very tough sometimes to feel like you’re making a difference. I remember during one of my first years, I was teaching a group of nonverbal students how to take turns, and everything went to hell and the students started screaming and beating their heads against the table. Then my best-behaved student turned and bit me. I thought: ‘I failed. I made things worse.’ But anytime I feel myself burning out, or losing patience, or not giving it my all, I pull back and do some meditation. Because if I’m not fully present and trying my hardest to make a difference, I should just quit.”