After enjoying nearly two weeks of Winter Break spent wearing sweatpants and not brushing my hair, my colleagues and I were back at work today. We didn’t have students today, which is probably the best choice in terms of their safety. A bunch of cheese-bloated, middle-aged teachers coming in fresh off half a month of […]
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Sensory Grounding BINGO
New, FREE lesson on enraged2engaged.com, E2E Sensory Grounding BINGO! After one of our functional kids with ASD had a scary meltdown in class a few weeks ago, the group (peer models and students) unanimously voted on a coping skills unit for the next round of lessons. New-teaching-partner Chris, the cadets (peer models), and I have […]
“I Have a Rubric For That!”
Teachers asked, and I listened. They asked for easy-to-use rubrics for tracking the SECD standards aligned to each lesson in the E2E curriculum…and I made them! Frankly, this has been a gap in my curriculum that I’m ecstatic to have finally filled. It was a ton of work to go through the standards from the […]
Brand New E2E Game Available on TpT!
I wrote a new game! E2E Awk-Words on TeachersPayTeachers I have seriously been trying to think of a good game to call Awk-Words for the past two years. This is the culmination of a dream. E2E Awk-Words is a printable card game that will encourage students to roleplay and discuss normative (and not-normative) responses to common […]
The Grand Poobah of Sub Folders!
It’s easy to forget that cold and flu season is upon us when it’s still 95 degrees outside. Nevertheless, winter is coming and, along with it, the dreaded Teacher Absence. In my early teaching years, my sub folder sucked. I filled out the single sheet that the office lady gave me at pre-service training, then […]
The Teacher Relationship Myth
There have recently been two suicides at a high school in my community. It’s been as awful as you think. I’ll spare you the details, because the details won’t do a damned thing to bring back those kids, ease their families’ hurt, or heal the gaping wound left by the loss of those kids for […]
Stepping Away
I’ve been avoiding writing a blog entry for a while now. Honestly? It’s because I wasn’t sure what to say. I have stepped away from behavior. That’s right, I applied for an in-district transfer last year, left the program for EBD I helped to start, and (for the first time in more than 13 years) […]
All-New Game: E2E Get My Goat
I’ve written my first game specifically designed with my current class of functional high school students in mind. I feel relieved to have revived my lesson-planning mojo. The vibe of a functional class is SO DIFFERENT from the high functioning kids with EBD and ASD I’ve taught for so many years. I’m astonished by the […]
The Dumbest Kid in Class, Part 2: Teacher Tips
After the first post, you may be thinking that the Exeter Math Institute Workshop was terrible and that the instructors were awful. That’s not the case, at all. I got some really cool ideas to share with my gen ed Algebra co-teachers when school starts that I think will benefit students. Naturally, my key focus […]
The Dumbest Kid in Class, Part 1: When You Find Out You’re Dumb
This week, I attended the Exeter Math Institute teacher training program. It was four, 8-hour days of working math problems. Hard math problems. Math problems that require prior knowledge and understanding of how to use a calculator that did not come from Dollar Tree. I will unabashedly admit that, hands-down, I was THE DUMBEST person […]
