Calming Corners are fast becoming an essential classroom space for managing feelings and emotions. A calming corner gives students a safe, soothing place to go when they are feeling overwhelmed or upset. With our exclusive, specially designed calming corner bundles … Read More
Tag Archives: Special Needs
9 Skills For Special Needs Students To Build In The Classroom
My name is Margaret Stacy and I am a K-2 self-contained ABA/iGoal teacher in a low income, high poverty school district. The school that I am currently based out of also experiences a high trauma rate. I have 10 students … Read More
How Achilles Kids Can Inspire Special Education PE Classes
Two years ago, I was working at a summer day camp where I began talking to a co-worker about programs that we used with our students. I told her that I was a runner and I used the programs through … Read More
Media Center Activity – Therapy Dog for Students
Thursday afternoons have gone to the dogs at Boston Middle School in Laporte, Indiana. Well, actually only one dog! Her name is Newdle and she is a licensed therapy dog. Newdle is part Newfoundland and part Standard Poodle. Her owner, … Read More
How to Use Storytelling Yoga in the Classroom
If you have an extra 15 minutes you can accomplish three things in your classroom: Calm yourself and your students Engage them in a story Become more physically fit You can accomplish all of this through Storytelling Yoga. It combines … Read More
Activities to Support Dementia Awareness Week
Raising Awareness About Dementia It is so important to bring awareness to dementia related diseases because there is not yet a cure, but early diagnosis can help improve the life of people with dementia and their families. Alzheimer’s is the … Read More
Friendship Circle Fitness Program for Special Needs
The Friendship Circle is a non-profit organization that brings together children, teens and young adults with and without special needs for a wide range of educational and social programs in a Jewish environment. One of the many programs run by … Read More
3 Ways to Engage Students in Your Special Education Classroom
Now that the school year is well underway, whether you are a new teacher or a 30+ year veteran teacher, you are certainly learning a lot about your students and what is or is not working for you, your students, … Read More
Classroom Management for Special Education Teachers
Today’s KISS – Keep It Simple Strategies – Classroom Management for Special Education teachers. For discussion purposes, we’ll assume you are a Resource Room teacher at the Elementary level. You are that miraculous person that takes the challenged children each … Read More
Unified PE Class Activity for Special Needs Students
Unified Physical Education at Illing Middle School is a course designed to provide regular education students with a firm grasp on basic sports skills, and strong leadership skills an opportunity to work with students’ with special needs. Students enrolled in Unified … Read More