Crying Into My Wine

Geschrieben von Okt 26, 2016 Verhaltensteam

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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A Glorious Day of Unicorns and Rainbows

Geschrieben von Okt 10, 2016 Verhaltensteam

Zuerst, AMAZING NEWS! We got a third teacher added to the program. The secondary SPED coordinator for the district showed up last Wednesday, told us the news, and Kim showed up the next morning. Kim is a former probation officer, so I’m pretty sure she won’t run off like her hair is on fire. […]

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Making Friends at School Costs $0.20

Geschrieben von Sept 22, 2016 Verhaltens-Hacks, Verhaltensteam

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” […]

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Wake Up, Roosters! It’s Morning!

Geschrieben von Sept 20, 2016 Verhaltensteam, Familien, IEPs

I write this as I sit outside the locked school at 6:02Bin. 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 […]

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New Social Skills Game Posted!

Geschrieben von Sept 8, 2016 Jetzt, Sensorische Erdung BINGO

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 […]

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Stop the Ride…I Wanna Get Off!

Geschrieben von Aug 21, 2016 Verhaltensteam

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 […]

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Back to School Front-loading for Teens

Geschrieben von Aug 9, 2016 Familien

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 […]

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Chasing the Elusive Data-Corn

Geschrieben von Aug 3, 2016 Verhaltensteam, Familien

Jenny and I are continuing to get all set up for the new year and the new program. Part of me wants to shut down because I feel so overwhelmed with the enormity of small, time-consuming tasks we still need to accomplish in the last 10 days before the kids come, but now that we’re […]

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Ich denke, hier kann sich meine fast obsessive Planung als nützlich erweisen, Ich denke, hier kann sich meine fast obsessive Planung als nützlich erweisen!

Geschrieben von Jetzt 14, 2016 Nicht kategorisiert

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 […]

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