In the ever-evolving landscape of education, fostering meaningful connections between students and real-world issues is essential for cultivating critical thinking and problem-solving skills. One compelling way to achieve this is through client-connected projects, where students actively engage with a real client to address pressing challenges. One such profound and impactful assignment revolves around chronic school […]
Category Archives: Behavior Team
Tips for working with your team on special ed teachers, gen ed teachers, school counselors, school psychs, counselors, and administrators
Free Back to School Night Slideshow Template
I made an easy-to-customize back-to-school slideshow in Canvas.
The Gracelessness of “Grace”
By extending limitless grace, we tell students exactly what we expect of them. Apparently, we don’t expect much; there, I said it. Ugly truth? It’s just easier to let them get away with murder and call it grace than it is to hold them accountable in ways that are effective and teachable. Maybe we just don’t have the resources, and calling it grace sounds nicer than “we’re just too tired to fight them.”
Data Collection Forms
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 […]
The Grand Poobah of Sub Folders!
It’s easy to forget that cold and flu season is upon us when it’s still 95 degrees outside. Nevertheless, winter is coming and, along with it, the dreaded Teacher Absence. In my early teaching years, my sub folder sucked. I filled out the single sheet that the office lady gave me at pre-service training, then […]
Stepping Away
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) […]
The Dumbest Kid in Class, Part 2: Teacher Tips
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 […]
Of Goats and Cars: A Parable
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)
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 […]
Amazon Has Gel Pens on Flash Sale!
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 […]
