I was a Special Ed teacher. I saw students — brilliant, complex, real — handed worksheets that meant nothing. Materials with no scaffolds. No visuals. No room to think. Lessons built to get through the day, not to reach anyone.
ThinkWise is where I started writing something better. Not perfect. Not polished. But real. Grounded in the standards because I had to be — but reaching for something deeper because I couldn’t accept the alternative.
Everything I make is rooted in this: students deserve more than survival. And teachers do too.
I always come back to the same question: Who cares? If a lesson can’t answer that, we shouldn’t teach it. And when the answer does come — it should always point to something human. Something that matters.