E2E Free Lessons of the Week: April 6

Posted by Apr 6, 2020 Uncategorized

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 […]

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E2E Free Lessons of the Week: March 30

Posted by Mar 30, 2020 Uncategorized

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 […]

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E2E Free Lessons of the Week: March 23

Posted by Mar 23, 2020 Uncategorized

Welcome (or welcome back)! Here are this week’s free lesson offerings: Free Adapted Literature Selection: A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner This retelling of William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily reads at an automated readability index of grade 5/6. This text aligns to the version in Holt’s Elements of Literature: Fifth Course. Classic literature […]

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Empowering Peer Models to Lead Lessons

Posted by Mar 21, 2020 Uncategorized

One of the absolute best parts of my personal life skills class is the peer models. I’ve got truly exemplary peers leading groups in class. Now that we are trying to navigate remote learning, I appreciate then even more. They are the ones reaching out to their peers via FaceTime, text, Instagram, phone, and mail. […]

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E2E Free Lesson of the Week: March 18

Posted by Mar 18, 2020 Uncategorized

I’m as shocked as everyone else that schools in my area have closed for the year. I know that families are feeling stressed about how to proceed with teaching at home. Schools WILL push out materials, but you may find yourself needing something to supplement it, especially if your student has an IEP. However, my […]

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How to Choose the Right Peer Models for Your Social Skills Class

Posted by Mar 11, 2020 Uncategorized

I write often about my program’s cadet teachers (peer models). When teaching normative social skills to adolescents, tapping into the resource of other teens is powerful. While younger children may enjoy and seek the approval of teachers, teens (yes, including those with intellectual disabilities, ASD, or behavior disorders) prefer acceptance and approval from people their […]

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Data Collection Forms

Posted by Feb 25, 2020 Behavior Team, IEPs

It has long been a source of fury for me when students are moved to more restrictive settings without reliable data or without having tried every reasonable intervention to allow them to remain in the least restrictive educational setting. I’ve seen firsthand how it can turn a kid’s world upside down to be removed from […]

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