If you’re here, you’re probably already a believer in the importance of social/emotional learning. However, some of your colleagues may not be quite so enthusiastic; they tend to like an important-looking study or two in order to validate your methodology and feel reassured that your proposed lessons meet a real student need. Never fear! I […]
Classic Literature, Accessible to Everyone Re-tellings of classic literature that read at an accessible automated readability index for secondary students who struggle to read grade-level text: special education, learning disabilities, ELL. Classic literature doesn’t have to be scary, boring, or too hard. Summary sites online and those little yellow and black notebooks are no longer […]
Writing Secondary Behavior Goals: Not Your Average Co-Teacher’s IEP! If you aren’t a “behavior person,” the magical hoodoo of behavior goals may be a bit outside your schema. If you are a behavior person, you probably aren’t getting a lot of solid, reliable advice and guidance for writing your behavior goals; it’s kind of a […]
I discovered I’m getting excellent results with this type of daily review, and it lets me prep them for the next round of assessments (sigh). To get up to speed on this entire thing and what pushed me to this point, check out my blog post, That Standardized Testing Grind, from a few weeks ago. […]
The students who MOST NEED to read and understand the message of Animal Farm are also the same students most likely to struggle to read it…
Ugly truth. Standardized tests matter. I f—-ing hate them, but it’s not up to me whether or not my students take them. And I needed to help them be ready.
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