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 ourAgame this year! ********************************************** Если вы прошли занятия по профессиональному развитию, в которых подчеркивается важность социального / эмоционального обучения, но не предоставили дорожную карту того, как на самом деле обучать этим навыкам, 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…а также […]

Holy CowWhat. 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, […]

Новый, 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 […]

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. тем не мение, unlike in the suburbs, it’s not acceptable for the little boxes to be all the same. Data collection is a highly personalI daresay intimateprocess. 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 […]

“А также, Now, for ‘Plan B’!”

I am, by nature, aplanner.I thoroughly enjoy mapping out calendars, making to-do lists, and generally knowing what’s going to happen roughly a year in advance. I love Google Calendar, Google Keep, and the Note application on my iPad. I plan out Girl Scout meetings for my daughter’s troop 14 months in advance; я […]