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 […]
Category Archives: Differentiated Instruction to Address Behavior
Ideas for differentiating instruction via accommodations and modifications to address students’ behavioral and academic PLEPs to increase normative behaviors
What’s New in Book 2?
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.
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)
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, […]
New, Free Lesson for the Downtrodden Social Skills Teacher!
Ladies and gentlemen, I know you’re getting tired. You’ve got about a month before summer break if you’re working in the United States, so grab and extra cup of coffee and some low-key lessons from enraged2engaged.com and pray for a minimum of drama. I’ve been plugging away on the new book and am hoping to […]
New Lesson on the Website!
If you’ve got a circular, obsessive thinker in your class, this lesson is especially for you. Breaking the Cycle of Perseverant Thinking #enraged2engaged #EBD #ASD #ODD #enjoyafreebie #itsalmostspringbreak
May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor!
My school starts final exams tomorrow, and the natives have been suitably restless as a combination of pre-Winter Break angst/excitement, disrupted classroom routines, and exam nerves have percolated into a vicious stew of new and interesting behaviors. Gag reel highlights include: A 20-minute-long walk at 7:40am with a student who couldn’t stay awake in class […]
New Social Skills Course Ideas and Career Exploration Resources!
Jenny and I have been reimagining our Social Skills class for next semester. After talking to students about what they’d like to learn, an overwhelmingly-mentioned topic was career exploration. We’ll continue to follow the basic structure outlined on the website and in the E2E book, but plan to set aside time each block day (when […]
Little Boxes
If you watched the Showtime series, Weeds, you’re familiar with Malvina Reynolds’s song, Little Boxes. Data collection sheets, like the suburbs, are full of little boxes. However, unlike in the suburbs, it’s not acceptable for the little boxes to be all the same. Data collection is a highly personal–I daresay intimate–process. Everybody’s looking for a shortcut for amazing […]
New Social Skills Game Posted!
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 […]
