How a Calm Corner Can Transform Your Classroom
I 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...
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3 Back to School Considerations Before the First Day
Back 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...
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Morning Meeting in a Special Education Classroom
Morning 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...
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YouTube Channels for Special Education Classrooms
YouTube 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...
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The Best Books to Teach Social Skills
This 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...
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Relationship Building with Tough Students
I 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...
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How to Equip Your School to Support Students Who Have Experienced Trauma
Let’s get down to the real stuff from the beginning, teachers: According to the ACES Study, a child with four or more “adverse childhood experiences” was 32 times more likely to be labeled with a learning...
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How to Use Read Alouds to Support Student Behavior
Bibliotherapy, or the use of books as therapy, can be such a great addition to our special education classrooms! Where to begin? Here’s a few of my favorites. Julia Cook I’ve mentioned her before, and...
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Meaningful Ways to Teach Gratefulness in Your Special Education Classroom
Fall! Everyone’s favorite season, right?! I love fall for millions of reasons, including sweater weather, chai lattes, TV shows coming out, the World Series, and gorgeous trees – but I also LOVE teaching gratefulness to...
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Supporting Students with Attachment Disorders
As teachers, there is so much that we learn on the job. I really did not know anything about attachment disorders until I had multiple students struggling with unhealthy attachment. Research and guidance from therapists...
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