The Dumbest Kid in Class, Part 1: When You Find Out You’re Dumb

Posted by Jul 27, 2017 Differentiated Instruction to Address Behavior

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 […]

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Of Goats and Cars: A Parable

Posted by Jul 13, 2017 Behavior Team

I’m taking a class this summer for my masters’. The instructor asked us to reflect on the idea that the wrong people are driving the car in the world of education, while the right people left out of the driver’s seat. This. Pushed. My. Damn. Buttons. Because I think there are a lot of people […]

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Feeling the Burn(out)

Posted by Jun 23, 2017 Behavior Team

I’ve been on my first totally (okay…mostly) work-free summer in a few years for the past month. No meetings, few e-mails, not even a ton of work for my own website and book. Teacher burnout, particularly among behavior teachers, is a real and exhausting part of the job. There are loads of statistics, studies, and […]

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New Book–Less Enraged, Still Engaged–is ON SALE! Free Lessons!

Posted by Jun 12, 2017 New Products, Uncategorized

We’re off to the races! The new book, Less Enraged, Still Engaged: Another Year of Social Skills Lessons for Adolescents with Emotional/Behavioral Disturbance or Autism Spectrum Disorders is live on Teachers Pay Teachers. There are FOUR TOTALLY FREE NEW LESSONS available at the listing link; just click on the preview selection on the listing. We’ve also […]

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What’s New in Book 2?

Posted by Jun 10, 2017 Behavior Hacks, Differentiated Instruction to Address Behavior

Here’s the abstract/overview from Teachers Pay Teachers. Lots of new stuff. We learned so much from the first book, and we’re bringing our “A” game this year! ********************************************** If you’ve endured professional development sessions that stress the importance of social/emotional learning without providing a roadmap for how to actually teach these skills, here is your […]

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Book 2 Releasing on Monday. Probably. We Hope.

Posted by Jun 10, 2017 Behavior Hacks, Differentiated Instruction to Address Behavior

We’re almost ready! Book 2 is scheduled to drop on Teachers Pay Teachers on Monday morning. Honestly, I’m a little embarrassed looking back at Book 1 now that this one is almost finished. This time, I’ve got standards alignment, cost breakdowns, supply lists, better questions, more games, links to reproducibles stored on our own server…and […]

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Holy Cow…What. A. Year. (NEW FREE LESSON)

Posted by May 10, 2017 Differentiated Instruction to Address Behavior, New Products

You may have noticed my absence of blog posts this spring. That’s because you can’t blog when you’re patrolling the lesser-known nooks and crannies of a high school, walkie-talkie in hand, pursuing a defiant teenager like Zaroff in The Most Dangerous Game (shout out to my English teachers!). I’ve been clipping away on the second book, […]

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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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