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

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 […]

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 Qualitative Data Form!

I stepped outside of my comfort zone this week and created a new, customized form to get some “big picture,” qualitative data on a student. I really like clean, unambiguous data, but even I know that qualitative (descriptive) data has its place. I’ve written before about the way the pendulum in education tends to swing […]