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 (modèles pairs), 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. Néanmoins, 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 […]
Le mythe de la relation enseignant
Il y a eu récemment deux suicides dans une école secondaire de ma communauté. C’est aussi horrible que tu le penses. Je t'épargnerai les détails, parce que les détails ne feront rien pour ramener ces enfants, soulager leurs familles’ faire mal, ou guérir la blessure béante laissée par la perte de ces enfants pour […]
Stepping Away
I’ve been avoiding writing a blog entry for a while now. Franchement? 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, et (for the first time in more than 13 ans) […]
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 […]
L'enfant le plus stupide de la classe, Partie 2: Conseils aux enseignants
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 […]
L'enfant le plus stupide de la classe, Partie 1: Lorsque vous découvrez que vous êtes stupide
Cette semaine, J'ai suivi le programme de formation des enseignants de l'Exeter Math Institute. C'était quatre, 8-heures jours de problèmes de mathématiques de travail. Problèmes de mathématiques difficiles. Problèmes mathématiques qui nécessitent des connaissances et une compréhension préalables de l'utilisation d'une calculatrice qui ne provient pas de Dollar Tree. Je vais admettre sans vergogne que, les doigts dans le nez, I was THE DUMBEST person […]
