If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you know I’m all about offering colleagues some nice tangible reinforcers to grease the wheels. Incidentally, some people at the new program hate my guts anyway…but they still liked getting Krispy Kreme a few weeks ago (watch Groupon–they run a “$20 worth of donuts for $10” […]
Author Archives: Sara
Wake Up, Roosters! It’s Morning!
I write this as I sit outside the locked school at 6:02un m. I can’t believe I’m here before the cross country coach. I’ve got at 6:30am parent meeting to discuss a student’s pending reevaluation. This kid has been having a rough time, even by my behavior classroom’s standards. I know that the kid’s mom doesn’t […]
New Social Skills Game Posted!
In the midst of the start-of-the-year chaos and crushing fatigue, I somehow managed to write a new social skills game, School Skills Building Bricks. We played it today in class, and the fellas (I have a class of all guys with ASD) gave it great reviews. We played for a bit over 70 minutes and […]
Stop the Ride…I Wanna Get Off!
We survived the first week of the new program. I’m not gonna lie. It wasn’t pretty. It’s Saturday night, and I’m still trying to recover. You know it was a tough one when scrubbing the ring out of your kids’ toilet at home looks like a smashing-good time. So many things haven’t quite turned out […]
Retour à l'école à chargement frontal pour les adolescents
I’ve read a couple of good articles with ideas to prepare younger kids with EBD and/or ASD to come back to school. This article focuses on social stories, which are great for elementary kids and lower-functioning secondary kids: https://www.iidc.indiana.edu/pages/How-to-get-your-child-with-asd-ready-for-a-new-school-year. But what about those higher-functioning teens? My students would poop their pants laughing if I tried to give […]
À la poursuite de l'insaisissable Data-Corn
Jenny et moi continuons à nous préparer pour la nouvelle année et le nouveau programme. Une partie de moi veut fermer parce que je me sens tellement submergé par l'énormité des petits, tâches chronophages que nous devons encore accomplir au cours des dernières 10 jours avant l'arrivée des enfants, but now that we’re […]
NOUVEAU, Plan de leçon gratuit affiché!
I’m getting back into the swing of things and gearing up for the start of the new school year in August. I’ve written a new lesson that teaches kids/teens how to stay on topic in conversations, and it’s posted on enraged2engaged.com on the resources page (“Roundtable Repartee”). Please sign up to get e-mail notifications about […]
“Et, Maintenant, for ‘Plan B’!”
I am, by nature, a “planner.” I thoroughly enjoy mapping out calendars, making to-do lists, and generally knowing what’s going to happen roughly a year in advance. I love Google Calendar, Google Keep, and the Note application on my iPad. I plan out Girl Scout meetings for my daughter’s troop 14 months in advance; je […]
#5: Greasing the Wheels (Sucking Up to Your Colleagues)
***This is the fifth blog post in a continuing series detailing the launch of a new district EBD center housed inside a traditional high school. I know you may find this difficult to believe, but my colleagues are feeling some trepidation about the 17 children with severe behavior problems coming to their school in August. I know. […]
#4 Le (Supervision) Matrix “There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. “
***This is the fourth blog post in a continuing series detailing the launch of a new district EBD center housed inside a traditional high school. Yep. I just quoted The Matrix. Because–Lord knows–engaging in this line of work will, most surely, open your eyes to all sorts of alternate realities. We may be at school, but it’s a […]
