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Want to train your paraprofessionals but not sure where to start? BEGIN HERE! Most paraprofessional binders or paraprofessional manuals I see just cover logistics and classroom norms but this paraprofessional training binder goes deeper and provides a crash course in HOW to actually best support students with disabilities! This is literally an entire year of paraprofessional training, all done for you and ready to go! It covers 36 academic, behavioral and communication strategies all in an easy

I have created 9 easy to use lesson planning templates specifically for self-contained classrooms, to help make lesson planning quick, efficient, and focused on what your students truly need. The printable PDF you can simply print, write and be ready to go! The digital resource is a copy of the same format of plans for your google drive (so you can easily type and digitally plan!). When appropriate, templates include space for IEP goal focus and data collection procedures- key components of an

This best-selling product is a massive time and money saver for any special education teacher! Check the reviews for what other special education teachers have said about helpful this addition to their classroom has been!! APRIL 2020 UPDATE: This resource was updated to include an "at home" slide and any clipart you may need to create home schedules as well! The At-Home Slide replaces the "stations" chart with a first/then chart. Because you won't need multiple boxes to tell multiple students wh

This is a bundle of digital adapted book companions to common read aloud books in elementary classrooms! Popular favorites included like David Goes to School, Pete The Cat, Many Old Lady Books and more! Each book comes with a set of 10 comprehension questions with moveable pieces in BOOM. It mimics how you would use an adapted book in a physical classroom setting with a student selecting pieces and putting them on certain "pages" only now they drag the piece to a box on the Boom card. As an add

This is a PERFECT resource to help you get organized as a SPED teacher! Includes 9 lesson planning templates, 2 bonus sample data collection sheets AND a planning template created just to help you map out when and how you will collect data! Teaching SPED is hard and there are so many things us special education teachers must juggle!! Let this resource simplify and streamline your life so you have more time to do what's most important: teach! Using these resources daily or weekly provides you the

Digital Adapted Book Companion for the book: David Goes to School. This is a perfect resource for planning back to school read alouds over Zoom or other digital platforms! This resource is designed to make your virtual read alouds more engaging and interactive, and simulate a traditional “adapted book” virtually! This is a BOOM CARDS resource- you will only be given access to the resource in the form of Boom Cards. This resource is a deck of 10 comprehension questions you can answer as you re

This pack includes resources for basic reading and math work in the form of Interactive PDF's, Boom Cards and NO PREP Print and Go worksheets, task boxes and binder work! Be sure to watch the entire video preview to see all that is included! This bundle includes TWENTY different skills all at a Pre-K and K level (see preview!) and each skill has between 25-70 questions included!! Having access to ALL three of these formats in one resource ensures you can use this resource both now during dist

4/6 UPDATE: This resource now includes links to a GOOGLE DRIVE version of this. The icons are all able to be clicked and dragged on the screen, so they can be manipulated just like you would if you had the hard copy! Just redownload and there are instructions for accessing the new digital copy! Mindfulness strategies like breathing and counting to 5 have been shown to help kids regulate their emotions in a classroom environment! This resource aims to make these two strategies accessible for stu

A complete year of Morning Meeting Slides for Special Education Classroom. 180 days of a complete morning meeting are included! Each day includes a greeting, a yes/no question of the day, a corresponding graph to graph responses to the question of the day, a look around and find challenge, calendar slides AND weather slides. This can be used to target SO many skills and is appropriate for a wide range of ages- making it perfect for morning meeting in special education classrooms. This is great f

Teaching children calm down strategies and ways to manage their big emotions is an important part of classroom instruction today! Calm down strategies like breathing, counting, or other sensory related strategies are effective ways to help students manage emotions and cope with stressful situations. These self-regulation strategies help connect students with their bodies and physically act in ways that help restore order and calm their bodies down. Research has shown however, that people and chi

This pack includes resources for basic math work in the form of Interactive PDF's, Boom Cards and NO PREP Print and Go worksheets! There are 25-55 slides included in each of the resources! Having access to ALL three of these formats in one resource ensures you can use this resource both now during distance learning and next school year as part of your regular classroom routine! This deck can EASILY be used all school year as routine binder work, independent work, technology work and small group

Digital Adapted Book Companion for the book: Pete the Cat and his Rocking School Shoes. This is a perfect resource for planning back to school read alouds over Zoom or other digital platforms! This resource is designed to make your virtual read alouds more engaging and interactive, and simulate a traditional “adapted book” virtually! This is a BOOM CARDS resource- you will only be given access to the resource in the form of Boom Cards. This resource is a deck of 10 comprehension questions you

This pack includes resources for basic reading and phonics work in the form of Interactive PDF's, Boom Cards and NO PREP Print and Go worksheets! There are 40-70 slides included in each of the resources! Having access to ALL three of these formats in one resource ensures you can use this resource both now during distance learning and next school year as part of your regular classroom routine! This deck can EASILY be used all school year as routine binder work, independent work, technology work a

This is the template I use to create my map and schedules for my Special Education Classroom and paraprofessionals. This template will NOT auto-populate. It is just a google sheets template where I have included the times of day broken into 5 minute increments (from 7:30-4:00), space to plan for a caseload of up to 10 students and then a color coded key to color cells based on where students are. Using this template you can begin mapping your schedule for next year. This template is not automati

Do you teach in a special education room and have a hard time finding materials to fit the needs of your more unique stations and learners? Typical "unit plans" don't cover all of the material I use for different stations and activities! I found myself wishing for themed unit activities for specific stations in my room like puzzles, board games, art projects and sensory bins! Providing these hands on and interactive stations is a GREAT way to engage my learners and now I can make these stations

This resource is a Digital Adapted Book Companion for the book: Glad Monster Sad Monster. It's designed for use in Special Education classrooms and will make read alouds accessible for all of your students. This is a perfect resource for conducting a Feelings or Emotions themed read aloud over Zoom or other digital platform for special education students and classrooms! This resource is designed to make your virtual read alouds more engaging and interactive, and simulate a traditional “adapted b

Looking for a way to practice those tricky social skills goals when doing distance learning? Stumped on how to just connect with your students over a computer? Enter- board games designed for google slides! The google drive download includes SIX different board game templates you can play with students! Because it's a google slides resource, it can be pulled up on multiple computers and all players will see edits to the screen (aka moving the character on the board) in real time. The 6 board ga

Grab this FREE resource to help you prepare for an upcoming IEP meeting! This template will make sure you are on top of all pre meeting paperwork and all team members are invited to collaborate in a timely manner! This checklist is NOT a resource to help develop an IEP, but is a planning resource to record all contacts with parents and the team before the meeting. I hope it's helpful to you :)

This resource is a Digital Adapted Book Companion for the book: Silly Sally. It's designed for use in Special Education classrooms and will make read alouds accessible for all of your students. This is a perfect resource for conducting a Feelings or Emotions themed read aloud over Zoom or other digital platform for special education students and classrooms! This resource is designed to make your virtual read alouds more engaging and interactive, and simulate a traditional “adapted book” virtual

Managing behaviors can be one of the trickiest parts of the job for many SPED teachers! This growing bundle includes ALL behavior specific resources from my store!! Various Token Charts are included, with a range of tokens earned from 3 to 40! The Token Charts can also be used with laminated tokens, stickers, or laminated and used with a whiteboard marker! So many great options to adapt these for multiple grade levels. The current calm down resources are visual supports to help kids first recogn