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Stepping Away

Posted by sara Dec 19, 2017 Behavior Team, Differentiated Instruction to Address Behavior

I’ve been avoiding writing a blog entry for a while now. Honestly? 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, and (for the first time in more than 13 years) […]

All-New Game: E2E Get My Goat

Posted by sara Sep 6, 2017 Differentiated Instruction to Address Behavior, New Products

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 […]

The Dumbest Kid in Class, Part 2: Teacher Tips

Posted by sara Jul 27, 2017 Behavior Team, Differentiated Instruction to Address Behavior

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 […]

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

Posted by sara 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 […]

Of Goats and Cars: A Parable

Posted by sara 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 […]

Feeling the Burn(out)

Posted by sara 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 […]

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

Posted by sara 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 […]

What’s New in Book 2?

Posted by sara 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 […]

Book 2 Releasing on Monday. Probably. We Hope.

Posted by sara 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 […]

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

Posted by sara 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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Social Skills and Low Lexile literature for adolescents with EBD, ASD or intellectual disabilities