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Six Reasons to Teach Special Education

Six Reasons to Teach Special Education

Serve Others As a special education teacher, you will have the opportunity to serve students with disabilities and their families an incredibly rewarding and humbling experience.  Make a Difference One of the biggest rewards of being a teacher is the ability to make a difference every single day. As a special education teacher, you will …

Techniques for Positive Reinforcement

Techniques for Positive Reinforcement

At the iCan Dream Center, we support students with different diagnoses, one of which is autism. We apply many interventions to aid us in increasing desired behaviors for our students. Registered Behavioral Therapists on our team have the tools to serve our students as effectively as possible, and one highly effective instrument in their toolkit …

Providing an Alternative to Alternative Schools

Providing an Alternative to Alternative Schools

To date, alternative schools have mainly served as settings where more restrictive conditions are enforced to compensate for dangerous or disruptive behavior. There are inherent risks associated with not responding to the overwhelming reality that disciplinary alternative school settings are further crippling our youth when we don’t respond to the data. The Risk in Alternative …

Technology & Differentiation: Not Just for Remote Learning

Technology & Differentiation: Not Just for Remote Learning

“Research shows technology-based instruction is reducing the time students reach a learning objective by 30 to 80 percent” (Haskins-Powell 2017). The above quote should surprise no one.  iCan Dream Center is no stranger to technology as a method to differentiate instruction. We realize the power of technology as a tool to introduce and reinforce knowledge and skills …

Trust: The Center of Everything We Do

Trust: The Center of Everything We Do

iCan Dream Center (ICD) has many programs. We are an ISBE Approved Transition Program helping young adults with disabilities develop the skills to reach their full adult potential, a therapeutic after school program, a credit recovery program, an ABA counseling program and more. At the center of all of these is the concept of trust. …