It’s 11:25, lunch starts in five minutes, and your classroom looks like a small tornado recently passed through. There are papers everywhere, someone can’t find their water bottle, and at least three students appear to...
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In all of our special education classrooms we have some students that greatly struggle with exhibiting challenging behaviors. Over the years I realized that one of the symptoms, and sometimes even the cause of, challenging...
Read MoreI spent many years teaching in a therapeutic day school for children with a primary disability of EBD. A calm corner was an essential part of my classroom. Truly, I would dare to say that...
Read MoreBack to school season has arrived! Are you ready to meet your kiddos and for your name to be called/shirt to be tugged 8 million times per day? Back to school might be chaotic, but...
Read MoreMorning meeting has evolved over the years in my classrooms, but I have always found it to be the most important part of our day! Let’s clarify that this is NOT the same as morning...
Read MoreThis post contains affiliate links. Hey teachers! There are posts everywhere that share the “must-haves” in terms of special education classroom supplies. I have a few “musts” that are more unconventional! Without these items, I...
Read MoreYouTube is one of my most favorite interactive resources to enhance my classroom instruction! Here are my Top 10 YouTube Channels for Special Education Classrooms (in no particular order!). I have also linked some of...
Read MoreWe LOVE our classroom coffee cart. This year, we started doing it on Fridays. As a classroom that follows CCSS and uses an adapted, but still gen-ed, curriculum, doing a coffee cart daily during the...
Read MoreThis post contains affiliate links. Teaching expected behavior through read alouds is one of my favorite ways to target specific skills. Here are some of my favorites, broken down into categories of behaviors. These are...
Read MoreI am asked constantly what the best “trick” or “hack” is in working with tough students. And what I really hear, and know, when someone says this, is: kids that are HARD to like. It...
Read MoreDo you use News2You in your special education classroom? News2You is an adapted digital newspaper that allows students to make connections to current events each week. I have used it for years, and I love...
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