My teaching team has been making the best of a rotten situation this spring. We haven’t been able to see our students, and we are disappointed to have missed out on our end-of-year traditions. However, our new and returning peer models (cadet teachers) have never had more availability to attend training sessions! I’ll take the […]
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E2E Free Lessons of the Week: May 11
Adapted Literature Selection: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman This retelling of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper reads at an automated readability index of grade 4/5. 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 your only choices for students […]
E2E Free Lessons of the Week: May 4
SECD Lesson of the Week: E2E Box of Chocolates Printable SECD Game In the film, Forrest Gump, Sally Field’s character says “Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re gonna get.” As adults with a mature set of experiences, we know how very true that statement is! Young adults with social […]
E2E FREE Short Story Lit Analysis Unit
This may be difficult to believe if you’ve only known my work surrounding behavior and SECD, but my first love was teaching English. I taught high school English (9, 11, and 12) for nine years before I pursued my master’s in SPED and found my other love, behavior/SECD. This year, I picked up a section […]
E2E Free Lessons of the Week: April 27
This Week’s Adapted Literature Selection: E2E Walden by Henry David Thoreau This retelling of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden reads at an automated readability index of grade 3/4. This text aligns to the version in Holt’s Elements of Literature: Fifth Course. Classic literature doesn’t have to be scary, boring, or too hard. Summary sites online and those little yellow […]
E2E Free Lessons of the Week: April 20
Adapted Literature Selection: E2E Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway This retelling of Ernest Hemingway’s Soldier’s Home reads at an automated readability index of grade 3/4. This text aligns to the version in Holt’s Elements of Literature: Fifth Course. Classic literature doesn’t have to be scary, boring, or too hard. Summary sites online and those little yellow and black […]
E2E Free Lessons of the Week: April 13
This week’s social skills lesson (game): E2E Awk-Words Let’s face it. In the real world, people don’t always say the right thing…but we still have to interact with them! Students know how to respond as long as others interact with them in normative and predictable ways. It’s when people don’t follow the rules that things […]
Thinking Ahead: A Practical Checklist of Tier 1 and Tier 2 Interventions
I wrote this blog post several weeks ago…before this terrifying pandemic and all the associated changes to every aspect of my job as a teacher. I’ve been using this time to reflect on practices I want to improve in my classes next school year when we return. If you are in a place where you […]
E2E Free Lessons of the Week: April 6
SECD Lesson: E2E Coping Skills from A to Z. *The game instructions state that an alphabet die is required. However, a jar with scraps of paper (a letter of the alphabet written on each scrap) would work just as well. Roll the alphabet die and draw a card from the deck; identify a coping strategy […]
E2E Free Lessons of the Week: March 30
Free SECD Game of the Week: E2E School Skills Building Bricks This is my most popular stand-alone game on Teachers Pay Teachers. It DOES require a large number of Legos in assorted colors, but it can be adapted to work with what you’ve got on hand. Students of all ages (even the “big kids” in […]
