Patrick Chambers

Use this Google Sheet to map out the IEP timelines for each of the student's on your caseload. It's a smart sheet that will populate the projected dates based on each of your student's IEP due dates. You can manipulate your ideal timelines to match when your caseload's IEP occurs: shortening the timeline if you have a lot of your meetings in the fall or elongating it if you have a Spring heavy caseload. The dates in the populated cells will also turn the cell red after the date has passed to giv

As a means to integrate more formative assessment into classrooms, I compiled a list of easily accessible and low-to-no prep formative assessment tools.  The list includes a description of the method, when to utilize (start of lesson, during, after, etc.), and what level of analyzing is required to assess the objective.  These formative assessment strategies double as engagement strategies, engraining these into your daily instruction will promote greater learning opportunities and help assess l

I've compiled a non-exhaustive, but thorough list of accommodations and modifications tied to deficit areas as a conversation starter for the team as they seek to best meet the needs of their students.  The document is grouped by deficit areas, an A & M hierarchy, along with guiding questions to consider with corresponding possible strategies.  Always consider what strategies are already established in your school especially when there's a cost involved, and always consult your admin when consid

The idea behind this lesson is that there's ALWAYS more than one way to do something and that we can meet the desired outcome in a number of ways while we ensure we’re considering what our own skills are and what variables we are contending with.   We run into troubles when we teach a linear step by step task analysis approach to a desired outcome because variables are natural to our environment.  A variable can interrupt the process or the process starts on a variable (starting late, bus is l