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After three seasons and a decade-long journey into the heart of dysgraphia, Cheri Dotterer records her final episode of The Writing Glitch. But this isn’t the end — it’s a beginning. In this emotional farewell, Cheri reflects on the reason she started the podcast, reads the powerful IMPACT Teacher Manifesto, and reveals the inspiration behind her next chapter.
Learn how Esther’s story shaped Cheri’s own transformation, and how you — yes, you — are being called to rise, lead, and teach from a place of wisdom, not worksheets. If you’ve ever felt like your classroom could be more than standards and scripts, this episode is your invitation.
👉 Download the IMPACT Teacher Manifesto [link in show notes]
📧 Email your story: cheri@cheridotterer.com
🎧 Stay tuned for the launch of a new and improved podcast, Fall 2025.
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TIME STAMPS
00:45 - Why I started The Writing Glitch
02:30 - What was broken: It wasn’t the students
03:40 - The glitch inside all of us
04:20 - A look back: the Esther connection
05:25 - Personal transformation through the hero’s journey
06:20 - The IMPACT Teacher Manifesto (Full Reading)
10:30 - What’s next: New podcast, new purpose
12:10 - Calling all TpT Teachers: Let me share your journey
13:05 - Introducing The Purpose-Filled Teacher podcast
14:15 - From pressure to purpose: A new kind of classroom
15:00 - Download the manifesto + share your story
15:45 - Final farewell: “You were put here for such a time as this”
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Creators and Guests
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Cheri Dotterer
Cheri is an international speaker, author, and consultant who helps teachers, therapists, and parents build clarity, community, and competency around the barriers to writing success. Her book, Handwriting Brain-Body DisConnect, has remained in the Top 100 on Amazon since publication in Handwriting Reference and Learning Disabilities. It was also a Top 10 Finalist in the Author Academy Awards in 2019. In addition, she was nominated the USA 2022 Dysgraphia Expert of the Year by Global Health and Pharma Magazine. She has worked in many concentration areas as an occupational therapist for 30 years. However, it wasn't until starting her private practice that she found her passion for helping others understand this disability. In addition, she has been an adjunct instructor at several universities. She lives with her husband of 32 years. They have two adult children. Her heroes are Evelyn Yerger, her grandmother, and Esther, Queen of Susa. Together, we can grow 110 million leaders and hack dysgraphia by building skills, applying knowledge, and transcending futures.
What is The Writing Glitch: Hack Dysgraphia No Pencil Required?
The Writing Glitch is brought to you by Dotterer Educational Consulting. Our Founder and Owner, Cheri Dotterer, is the host.
Build courage, compassion, and collaboration to help students thrive and grow leaders that transcend a lifetime, regardless of dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia, using sensory-motor processing and neuroscience-based instructional interventions. No Pencil Required!
We interview teachers, therapists, and parents about how they have seen a transformation in children having these disabilities and co-morbid conditions such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). They share how they help students grow and prosper.
We believe we can grow 110 million leaders together by building skills, applying knowledge, and transcending futures. Join us to hack dysgraphia. No Pencil Required.
Each episode contains one intervention to help you support students with writing challenges the next day you are in your classroom. These interventions are explicit, systematic, cumulative, and multisensory. They are designed to support ALL students through targeted, daily visual-perceptual, visual-motor, and memory interventions. These interventions benefit all students and harm none.
All students have access to writing regardless of their status in the classroom. The interventions were created to take up to 30 seconds to 2 minutes of your classroom time. Strategic lesson planning increases classroom engagement.
All interventions can be adapted for students with physical disabilities because they support the Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) and well-being of all students. In addition, these interventions impact all subject matter classrooms. Whether you are teaching English language arts, mathematics, social studies, science, music, or art, these interventions will benefit your classroom atmosphere across ALL grade levels.
You have put your blood, sweat, and tears into investing in your education and children. Don’t let a misunderstanding about this disability stop you from providing best practices.
In case you don’t know me. I’m Cheri Dotterer, 2022 Dysgraphia Expert of the Year. This honor was bestowed on me by Global Health and Pharma Magazine. In 2023, they awarded my company the Best Dysgraphia Professional Development Program.
It took challenges at home and on the job to wake me up to the impact dysgraphia has on all students. Struggling my entire life with communication issues, I was mistaken that only students with learning disabilities could have dysgraphia.
My thoughts shifted when my gifted daughter asked for help with spelling. My son struggles with handwriting. Then, a parent asked me why her child could read and have trouble writing. Finding answers became the drive that gets me out of bed in the morning.
It’s a big shock when you discover how pervasive writing difficulties are and how little people know about how to help–even OTs. I used to think I was the only OT who struggled with understanding dysgraphia. It turns out many have questions.
Occupational, physical, and speech therapists are not trained to teach. Teachers are.
Occupational, speech, and physical therapists are trained in neuroscience. Teachers are not.
Let this podcast be your first line of defense to help your students transcend their learning disabilities. Show your school district how much you genuinely care about all of your students by sharing it with your colleagues.
After each episode, I challenge you to share your key takeaway from the podcast in our FREE yet private community. Share your student wins. Get support on the challenges.
Join The Writing Glitch Community. https://thewritingglitch.com/
Connect with Cheri at www.cheridotterer.com or info@thewritingglitch.com
Cheri Dotterer 0:02
Cheri, hey everybody. It's Cheri Dotterer, your neuro leadership coach here on the writing glitch. Welcome to probably the most important episode I'm recording to date. You've been listening for a while. You know that the show talks a lot about dysgraphia and how to help parents and teachers and kids overcome this disability? Well, here's the truth, there's been something stirring in me over the last year. I don't know if you've noticed it or not in the episodes, but it's been bothering me for a little while, and it's time to do something about it, so I started the writing glitch, because I saw something was broken. It's not the students, it's the system. I saw that we the kids, were not lazy, but we called them lazy. They weren't behind because they were behind. They were behind because we thought they were behind. They were stuck in this system that just didn't understand them. And I wanted a voice for that. I still do, but it's the glitch inside of us that you have taken what I have shared and you can run with it. You can go back and listen to old episodes. I it's not gonna leave the platform, but we've bridged the gap from reading to writing, and my heart is just leading me to another location. So let's back up a couple years before I ever published handwriting, brain, body, disconnect, I I was reading the story of Esther, and I would read it before I got out of bed every morning, and I'd read it from the beginning of chapter one till the very end of chapter 10, I practically had it memorized, and something was stirring in my heart, even back then, about who Esther was and who she became. And over the last 10 years of personal development, I have become something different, something new, something more powerful than I thought I'd ever become. Every teacher meets this part in their journey. It's called the hero's journey. And so we come to this point in the cycle within the hero's journey where we need to start expressing what that next step in our lives is, because the hero never comes back to the same place that they started. So let's learn how to build lead and heal and create new material. I Yeah.
So I've taken what I have been learning about myself, about others, about leadership, and I've put it in to the impact teacher manifesto, I'm going to read it to you. You were put here for such a time as this. I think you've heard that once or twice before, right? Yeah, you were put here for such a time as this. You are not just an educator. You are a guide, a builder, a breaker of rhymes. In a world caught in cycles of overwhelm, disconnection and underachievement, you are called to rise to break your own hypnotic rhythm so you can help your students break theirs. You see beyond the behavior. You hear what isn't spoken. You feel the tension between the potential and the limitation, and choose potential every time. You know that learning doesn't start with worksheets. It starts with wisdom, with integrity, as it's as your foundation. You invite curiosity through metacognition, you ignite awareness by modeling perseverance, you show students how to struggle well with adaptability, you turn failure into fuel through confidence, you help learners rewrite the story they tell themselves by embracing transcendence, you remind them that their life has purpose. You are on a journey, and so are your students, the two heroes journeys intertwined together. Other. You're not just mastering math or writing or reading, you're mastering identity, resilience and the courage to become this is a new classroom, not just a space for standards, but a sanctuary for transformation. You are not an accident. Sorry about that. You are not here by accident. You were put here for such a time as this, and we're just getting started. If you'd like a copy of this manifesto, you can check out the show notes, and there'll be a link that you can download a free copy of the manifesto. So I wanted to blend my time here on the writing glitch with, Let's rephrase that a little bit, my time here on the writing glitch I have shared what I can about writing skills and how to change them. I'm passing the baton to someone else to take the reins and explore dysgraphia even further. What I'd like to do is go even bigger under the umbrella of personal development, I want to share stories that I've learned about Esther. I want to share your stories as well. So what I'd like to do is I'd like to reach out to folks that are on teachers, pay teachers as sellers, and I'd like to share your story, your hero's journey, your transition from wherever it was that you were when you started to where you are now as a teacher. So if you are on teachers, Pay Teachers, please reach out to me at Cheri, at Cheri dotterer.com, and I'd like to interview you on my new podcast. My target is that purpose filled educator who resonates with the impact teacher manifesto. So what's going to change? We're going to have more conversations about you. We're going to have Esther inspired conversations we're going to have lessons beyond the classroom. So will you come with me? Will you let the new season of your teaching be filled with purpose, not pressure? If you've ever felt like you were made for something more, if you've ever wondered if your voice matters, if you ever created something meaningful but felt stuck, download that impact teacher manifesto, and once you download it, send me an email. Let me know your story. I'd love to share it on the podcast. Until then, go, be awesome. Go, be brilliant. You were put here for such a time as this. This has been Cheri Dotterer. That's Cheri with a C dot with two T's and two ers. It has been a wonderful three years, and I'm sorry to see it go, but this is the last episode of the writing glitch. Look for a new podcast in the fall. Talk to you soon. You.
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