Amazon Has Gel Pens on Flash Sale!

Posted by Feb 26, 2017 Behavior Hacks, Behavior Team

If you’re an E2E long-timer, you know that I “reinforce” my colleagues with gel pens. By February, it’s getting to be slim pickings in the gel pen basket; nobody is reinforced by pale yellow or brown. Time to restock! If you’ve got Amazon prime, you can get 107 gel pens for $17.00-ish for the next […]

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New Qualitative Data Form!

Posted by Feb 22, 2017 Behavior Team, IEPs, New Products

I stepped outside of my comfort zone this week and created a new, customized form to get some “big picture,” qualitative data on a student. I really like clean, unambiguous data, but even I know that qualitative (descriptive) data has its place. I’ve written before about the way the pendulum in education tends to swing […]

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May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor!

Posted by Dec 16, 2016 Behavior Hacks, Differentiated Instruction to Address Behavior

My school starts final exams tomorrow, and the natives have been suitably restless as a combination of pre-Winter Break angst/excitement, disrupted classroom routines, and exam nerves have percolated into a vicious stew of new and interesting behaviors. Gag reel highlights include: A 20-minute-long walk at 7:40am with a student who couldn’t stay awake in class […]

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New Social Skills Course Ideas and Career Exploration Resources!

Posted by Dec 14, 2016 Behavior Hacks, Differentiated Instruction to Address Behavior, Uncategorized

Jenny and I have been reimagining our Social Skills class for next semester. After talking to students about what they’d like to learn, an overwhelmingly-mentioned topic was career exploration. We’ll continue to follow the basic structure outlined on the website and in the E2E book, but plan to set aside time each block day (when […]

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Behavior Interventions: Breaking it Down

Posted by Dec 6, 2016 Behavior Hacks, Behavior Team

As the new program has grown and changed this semester, I’ve found myself with little time for blogging and writing lessons. The day-to-day demands are substantial, and my fatigue (and burnout) have been the worst they’ve been since I was a first-year teacher. A major challenge Jenny and I have faced is follow-through in our […]

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Little Boxes

Posted by Nov 11, 2016 Behavior Team, Differentiated Instruction to Address Behavior, IEPs

If you watched the Showtime series, Weeds, you’re familiar with Malvina Reynolds’s song, Little Boxes. Data collection sheets, like the suburbs, are full of little boxes. However, unlike in the suburbs, it’s not acceptable for the little boxes to be all the same. Data collection is a highly personal–I daresay intimate–process. Everybody’s looking for a shortcut for amazing […]

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Crying Into My Wine

Posted by Oct 26, 2016 Behavior Team

Friday was supposed to be an amazing day. A day to kick back, catch up, and breathe a little. Murphy’s Law of Quiet Days told me not to get too comfortable, but I didn’t listen. It was the last day of parent/teacher conferences, and we were in the home stretch. We’d met with families, and the […]

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