Undergrad & Master's degrees in Special Education, 15 years of field experience, currently a social emotional learning coach at a public school. Author of best selling kids book Roaring Mad Riley!
The resources included in this product are designed to assist you in teaching the students the size of their everyday problems and appropriate reactions through hands on experiences, visuals, scenarios, group activities, self reflection, and independent practice! INCLUDED:★ Ideas for use ★ Size of the problem posters & visuals ★ Size of the problem desk display ★ Headers and scenario cards for sorting by problem size ★ Headers and scenario cards for sorting by reaction size ★ Adapted Book -
Reflecting on behavioral incidents is a research proven way to make tangible change and prevent challenging behaviors from becoming cyclical. These differentiated and varied think sheets provide structure to often difficult conversations to create meaningful change and restorative results! This product includes 11 think sheets, each version with and without a guardian signature line, to choose from. Sheets vary from having visuals, choices to circle, and written responses. Help make your resto
The resources included in this product are designed to assist you in teaching the foundations of behavior by understanding expected and unexpected behaviors through simple hands on, visual, engaging activities. INCLUDED:★ Expected/unexpected behavior visuals ★ File folders related to behaviors ★ Cut and paste worksheets ★ Dot marker worksheets ★ Color-the-correct-behavior worksheets ★ Basic coping skills worksheets ★ Simple scenario worksheets IMPORTANT FEATURES INCLUDE:★ Visual based activit
The task included in this product are designed to assist you in teaching the students the size of their everyday problems through reusable clip cards that can be used with clothes pins or dry erase markers. INCLUDED:★ 46 task cards - What Size is the Problem? IMPORTANT FEATURES INCLUDE:★ Visual based ★ Tools that can be used with students outside of your classroom including inclusion experiences, home, and therapy settings ★ Whole group, small group, and independent work activities ★ Activit
This social emotional learning warm-up journal includes guided SEL questions and prompts, with visual supports, designed for students in grades 2-5 grade. They are best used when implemented regularly and reviewed and debriefed in some way. INCLUDED:★ Guided journal with an emotion check in, emotional identification practice, coping skill choices, self exploration, flexible thinking exercises, and SEL reflection questions IMPORTANT FEATURES INCLUDE:★ Student friendly fonts ★ Clear clip art ★ Co
Teaching expected and unexpected behaviors throughout the school day is an essential part of any social emotional learning program. Make it hands on with these task cards! Included in this product are 32 task cards, with visuals, that prompt students to determine if a specific behavior is expected, or unexpected. Students get to answer in a hands on way, with dry erase markers or clothes pins, making the task more than just a flat activity. These task cards are great for independent work, cente
The resources included in this project are designed to assist you in teaching the foundations of emotional regulation through hands on experiences, visuals, and simple, structured interventions. INCLUDED:★ Color coded emotions posters ★ Coping skills visuals ★ File folders related to emotional regulation ★ Emotions visuals for a key ring ★ Cut and paste worksheets ★ Sorting activities ★ Matching activities ★ Size of the problem worksheets IMPORTANT FEATURES INCLUDE:★ Visual based activities ★
The social scripts included in this product are designed to help students in special education settings to navigate the death of a grandparent through visually supported scripts and stories. INCLUDED:★ One page social script with visual supports ★ Mini-book social script with visual supports IMPORTANT FEATURES INCLUDE:★ Clear clip-art ★ Simple but direct language ★ Versions for grandpa and grandma ★ Two styles of stories Social scripts are an evidence based practice in teaching children with a
The activities included in this product are designed to help students differentiate between leadership qualities and bossiness through engaging visuals, scenario sorts, and discussion questions. This is a perfect social emotional learning activity for back to school season and after school breaks!INCLUDED:★ 1 self-assessment ★ 1 illustrated mini-book ★ 2 visual anchor charts ★ 1 cut & paste T-Chart sort ★ 3 leadership quote coloring pages ★ 6 discussion questions/journal prompts IMPORTANT FEA
PreK - 3rd
Character Education, Classroom Community, Social Emotional Learning
Understanding and classifying emotions is a foundational social emotional skill that all of our students needs. These emotions sorting mats are the perfect tool for practice! The included sorting mats include both clip art and real photographs to help students classify and generalize emotions across children and characters alike. The mats include 8 emotions: angry, bored, upset, excited, happy, silly, scared and frustrated. Each mat includes 9 photographs of children to attach to the mat. Sugges
The social scripts included in this product are designed to help introduce positive language and the reasons why swearing/cussing is unexpected through visually supported scripts and stories. Please view the video preview to get a glimpse of what's on each page.INCLUDED:★ Mini-book social script with visual supports using the word "swearing" ★ Mini-book social script with visual supports using the word "cussing" IMPORTANT FEATURES INCLUDE:★ Clear clip-art ★ Simple but direct language ★ Version
The sensory movement path included in this product is designed to promote sensory exploration, exercise, and functional movement throughout the school day through a set of explicit visuals featuring photos of real children to create a sensory pathway in a hallway or classroom in your school, office, or home. Sensory pathways can be REALLY expensive and out of the budget! Try the DIY way with this budget friendly, real photo version. INCLUDED:★ 16 movement options ★ 4 different arrows ★ stop a
PreK - 5th
Health, School Counseling, Social Emotional Learning
This behavior bundle is a great way to teach, generalize, and engage with foundational behavior concepts in a hands on, engaging way. This bundle includes some of my best selling products focusing on this topic - at a discounted price! This bundle includes group activities, independent work, games, task cards, worksheets, puzzles, file folders, picture sorts, word sorts, and clip cards that can be used in task boxes, centers, therapy groups, and across grade spans. Give your students the direct
Showing children the size of their problem and appropriate reactions is a research based way to teach effective emotional regulation! This bundle includes instructional tips, posters and visuals, sorting cards, worksheets, adapted books, task cards, journal prompts, exit tickets, certificates, task box activities, 100 digital slides with size of the problem scenarios, self correcting puzzles, and MORE! When you purchase the bundle, you get a discount! Each resource included in this bundle provid
Teaching expected and unexpected behaviors throughout the school day is an essential part of any social emotional learning program. Make it hands on with these task cards! Included in this product are 32 task cards, with real photographs that prompt students to determine if a specific behavior is expected, or unexpected. Students get to answer in a hands on way, with dry erase markers or clothes pins, making the task more than just a flat activity. These task cards require no reading so they c
The word walls included in this product are designed to help students build their social motional vocabulary through age appropriate word wall cards for daily or weekly vocabulary and/or SEL instruction. Check the preview for a deeper dive and for a list of all words included.INCLUDED:★ 40 social emotional word wall cards with simple definitions ★ Color version with clip art and without IMPORTANT FEATURES INCLUDE:★ Visual supports ★ Clear clip art ★ Variety of social emotional words included ★
Showing children the size of their problem and appropriate reactions is a research based way to teach effective emotional regulation! This product has 100 Size of the Problem digital slides with 100 unique scenarios! The product includes a PDF document with one Size of the Problem scenario on each slide along with discussion questions. This product is designed to be used digitally, by being projected on a screen like a SmartBoard. I like to use these scenarios during Morning Meeting, but they co
The resources included in this bundle are designed to assist you in teaching the foundations of emotional regulation through hands on experiences, visuals, and simple, structured interventions. These materials are perfect for health and wellness classes and units! INCLUDED:★ Emotional Regulation Toolkit★ Emotional Colors Social Narratives★ Emotions Bingo★ SEL Book Companion: Roaring Mad Riley★ SEL Book Companion: Soda Pop Head★ Emotion Regulation Reflection Journal ★ Emotion Regulation Gam
PreK - 5th
Health, School Counseling, Social Emotional Learning
This product includes 12 simple books to add to your office or classroom calm corner to help students with de-escalation. While processing behavioral incidents is so important, research tells us that an escalated child simply cannot process language or problem solve in any effective manner. These books include books with animal photographs, landscape photographs, shapes with dotted lines for students to trace with their finger, and 6 "eye spy" books where students find photographs that are a spe
The slides included in this product feature 36 coping skills designed to be proactively taught to students from grades 1-8. They are best when projected on a laptop, tablet, or interactive whiteboard/projector and taught once per week.Suggestions for use include:Weekly skill practiced each morningWeekly skill practiced as a transition activityINCLUDED:★ 36 slides (one skill per week of the school year)★ Canva, Google Slides (TM), and PDF versions of the slides★ Visuals to create a classroom disp
1st - 8th
School Counseling, School Psychology, Social Emotional Learning
Undergrad & Master's degrees in Special Education, 15 years of field experience, currently a social emotional learning coach at a public school. Author of best selling kids book Roaring Mad Riley!
Teaching style
As a special educator I am always keeping my students at the center of all my instructional plans! In our classroom we do small group work for academics because of the wide range of abilities in my classroom. I love incorporating choice making, mindfulness, culturally relevant and responsive activities, visuals, and student input into everything we do together.
Awards & shining teacher moments
2011 Golden Apple Teacher of Distinction
2016 Heroes in the Hood Stop the Violence Winner
My own education history
2010 graduate from Illinois State University, bachelors in Special Education -
2014 graduate of University of Illinois, MSEd in Special Education, Multiple Disabilities -
Google Certified Educator, 2017
Cognitive Coach, 2021
Additional biographical information
Reading | Family | Mom Life | Travel | Animal Advocate
Living, working, and exploring with my family in Chicago!
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