A Classroom Pet in Our Special Education Classroom
For 5 years of teaching, I had the joy of having a classroom pet. We had a rabbit in my classroom! Leonard the Rabbit joined the family for the soul purpose of being a classroom...
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5 Meaningful Teacher Quotes to Live By
Working in the land of emotional behavior disorders is magical, frustrating, overwhelming, important, exhausting, tedious, and so worth it. This blog post is dedicated to 5 teacher quotes that are hugely important in the...
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3 Simple Ways to Build Self-Esteem in Struggling Students
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...
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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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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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So You Want to Start a Classroom Coffee Cart?
We 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...
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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 Use the Power of Community to Help Shape Behavior
If you’ve been reading my blog or following my social media accounts for any length of time, you know that behavior plans are my jam! There is really nothing that is more powerful than a...
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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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