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Behavior mapping is an effective way of teaching contingencies between choices and consequences. I love using behavior contingency maps to teach both the skill of choice making and also the responsibility of our actions and choices. These resources and activities align with CASELs core competencies of Self-Awareness and Self-Management. Contingency mapping our behaviors and choices is a great way to teach self-regulation skills. It's an all time favorite visual support and behavior support for m

Looking for a data sheet for behavior in your classroom? Look no further! This behavior data collection toolkit includes 19 behavior data sheets that are user-friendly and easy to print and go. These behavior data sheets are perfect for collecting baseline data, FBA/BIP data, and intervention data on a range of behaviors and skills in your classroom. Need to track on task behaviors? Or maybe collect baseline data on problem behaviors of concern? Need a quick student observation sheet to

Use this resource to train staff on de-escalation strategies and procedures for students with challenging behaviors. Managing student behaviors is TOUGH but training staff on de-escalation strategies and supports doesn't have to be! This resource is a great training tool for all staff from paraeducators, related service providers, gen ed teachers, and administrators. This staff behavior scale and supports aligns with the Acting Out Cycle. This resource includes: ①Behavior Escalation Scale wi

This I Need A Break Functional Communication Training set will help teach your students how to request to take a break without the big behaviors! Instead of throwing, hitting, kicking, running around the room, screaming, or running out of the room... teach your students functional communication skills of requesting appropriate ways to escape or avoid unpleasant, challenging, or aversive situations and environments. If the function of behavior is escape or avoidance teach, practice, and rein

Check out this resource for creating individualized behavior management strategies for de-escalating behavior in your classroom. Develop de-escalation techniques and train your staff on helping angry and upset students in your class. ⭐Use this toolkit to help students to calm down with staff supports, staff visuals, debriefing forms, and behavior data sheets. This behavior management strategies toolkit for teachers includes: 1. De-Escalation Quick Tips 2. De-Escalation scripts for staff

Transitioning from activity to activity can be difficult for some students. Transitioning to work from fun or preferred activities can be especially challenging. These transitioning activities and supports teach your students how to help transition in your classroom. When the timer goes off and you say "it's all done, time to work" do they respond with BIG emotions and BIG behaviors? These resources and activities teach your students how to handle triggers to big emotions by teaching replace

These Cleaning Up Visual Supports, Social Stories, and more will help you teach your students how to relinquish items and transition to work or other tasks. These clean up activities and supports teach your students how to help relinquish items and transition in your classroom. Does your learner have difficulty stopping in the middle of something? Or maybe they struggle stopping and restarting? What about relinquishing items and transitioning to work? When the timer goes off and you say

Use these calm down choice boards to help your students identify feelings and calming tools. These I Feel & I Need choice boards give your students self-advocacy skills to be able to say how they are feeling and what they need. This resource is great for morning feelings check-ins, mid-day check-ins, and afternoon check-ins to see how your students are doing. And more importantly teach your students choice-making skills and identifying feelings and emotions in self. This feelings choice

This scale is based off of the book, The Incredible Five Point Scale, by Kari Dunn Buron. Please visit her site at www.5pointscale.com for ordering information. Buron's book A 5 Could Make Me Lose Control! is an awesome resource to use with this scale. This is a tool used to teach students self-regulation and self-monitoring skills. This can be used with a variety of students and has been found to be especially effective for students with ASD. Use this 5 point scale to teach students to unders

Goal setting activities for elementary students on up is a great way to start each and every day with a social emotional learning focus. Goal setting is a key skill for self-awareness and self-management skills. These skills help lead us to our values and give us a plan for how to get there. What behaviors and skills are necessary to reach our goals and who and what will help us get there. Goal setting is aligned with CASELs Core Competencies for Social Emotional Learning. This set includes:

Use these activities to teach schedule changes and all other changes at school whether it is a schedule change, substitute teacher, field trip, new class, new activity or more. Changes at school can be so difficult for students. Use these accepting changes activities and social stories to teach functional communication skills and toleration responses when triggers hit. These accepting changes social stories and activities are easy to teach and implement to teach changes and replacement

Teach your students how a clean up routine to help relinquish items and transition in your classroom without problem behaviors. These clean up social stories and activities teach your students how to handle triggers to big emotions by teaching replacement behaviors. Teaching clean up routines with visual mini-routines, communication scripts, option cards, behavior contingency maps, and MORE! Teach social emotional learning that align with CASEL's core competencies such as: 1. Self-Mana

These Positive Behavior Cue Cards teach and prompt behavior expectations in your classroom. Reduce verbal prompts and increase behavior expectations, positive behavior changes, self-regulation, independence and more! Wear these high contrast behavior cue cards on a lanyard or keyring around your wrist. Post these behavior visual supports around your classroom, on student desks, in work areas, or even student binder systems to help remind them of what is expected. Visual cue cards are a qui

Learning how to wait is hard. Teaching kids how to wait seems even harder some days! Use this resource to teach kids how to wait with evidence based strategies. These visual supports use modeling and prompting to teach self-regulation strategies like time management skills and how to wait. They give students a hands-on activity and approach to wait. Make it concrete with a visual and supports. This Learning to Wait Countdown resource includes: ⭐ Black & White Countdown from 10 visual

MINDFUL BREATHING EXERCISES techniques for your Calming Corner or Calm Down Kit. Teach Mindful Breathing Exercises with these Animal Deep Breathing strategies and visuals. Use these mindful breathing exercises and breathing visuals in your Calm Down Corner and Deep Breathing Kits. Teach deep breathing skills with differentiated deep breath social stories and visual mini-routines. Teach 5 different deep breath techniques with this Deep Breathing Kit.1. Bunny Breathing 2. Buzzing Bee Brea

Create a Calming Corner, Classroom Calm Down Kit, or Mindful Breathing Kit with MINDFUL BREATHING EXERCISES. Use these Mindful Breathing Exercises to teach calming skills and coping skills in your classroom. Teach deep breathing skills with differentiated deep breath social stories and visual mini-routines. Teaching mindful breathing exercises to calm down and relax. These are great to teach your students replacement behaviors for coping strategies and calming strategies. Take a deep breat

Teaching following directions to students with disabilities can sometimes be tricky... check out these following directions procedures for staff! Guided compliance (also known as Wait-Ask-Say-Show-Do) is a common behavior intervention which consists of a series of gradually more intrusive prompts (least to most prompting) contingent on student noncompliance. Guided compliance prompts students through compliance while limiting additional attention in a systematic way. This is an awesome resourc

Use this Cleaning Up Social Story and More to teach students how to accept all done without the BIG behaviors. Teach your students how to clean up with social stories, visual supports, and behavior skills activities to help relinquish items and transition in your classroom. These clean up social stories and activities teach your students how to handle triggers to big emotions by teaching replacement behaviors when r elinquishing items is difficult. Use these behavior skills supports help

Requesting I want using communication supports! How do your students ask for what they want or need in your classroom? Teach functional communication skills of requesting wants and needs with this gaining access to tangibles packet! Functional Communication Training teaches and reinforces replacement behaviors. Teach appropriate communication skills for gaining access to tangibles and activities (AKA WHAT I WANT!) This Functional Communication Training (FCT) packet for gaining access teac

This resource will help get your day started off right with a social emotional learning focused Morning Meeting. With this morning meeting bundle you can teach your students social emotional learning skills, and focus on building a safe and supportive class culture, and building strong relationships. Each day starts with social emotional learning activities, mindfulness practice, and social skills instruction and practice. Goal setting is an essential skill for SEL and helps incorporate social