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Interventions for Executive Functioning Challenges: Organization

December 16, 2018 by pathway2success 2 Comments

As kids get older, organization becomes ever more important! While it is a critical skill for all ages, kids and young adults are often just learning to develop and strengthen their skills as more responsibilities are added on in their lives. When you think about it, kids and young adults can have a lot to […]

Filed Under: Executive Functioning Skills, Special Education, Study Skills, Teaching, Tips for Teachers

Interventions for Executive Functioning Challenges: Planning

December 2, 2018 by pathway2success Leave a Comment

Planning is a critical executive functioning skill that helps kids and young adults achieve success in and outside of the classroom. Executive functioning skills are the complex mental processes that work together to help us accomplish tasks and goals. When learners struggle with these skills, daily life activities can become particularly challenging. While all executive […]

Filed Under: Executive Functioning Skills, Special Education, Study Skills, Teaching, Tips for Teachers

Using Games to Teach Social Emotional Skills

November 18, 2018 by pathway2success 6 Comments

Using Games to Teach Social Emotional Skills

Games can be the perfect tool to introduce and teach social emotional learning skills to kids and young adults. These are the skills that help kids become more self-aware, develop positive relationships, show empathy towards others, manage emotions, use self-control, resolve conflicts, and make positive decisions. If you need more background on SEL, make sure […]

Filed Under: Social Emotional Learning, Special Education, Teaching

15+ Strategies to Help Build Self-Regulation Skills

November 5, 2018 by pathway2success 6 Comments

Strategies for kids and teens to help build self regulation skills, including fun and interactive games, books, mindfulness, calming strategies, and lessons. Teaching these skills for self-regulation and self-control can help students become more successful and gives them the tools they need. #selfregulation #selfcontrol #pathway2success

Self-regulation is a critical skill for people of all ages. It is the ability that helps us to control our behaviors to make good decisions for the long-term, rather than just doing what we want in the moment. It’s also the skill that allows us to manage our emotions when we’re feeling angry, disappointed, or […]

Filed Under: Autism, Executive Functioning Skills, Managing Challenging Behaviors, Social Emotional Learning, Special Education, Teaching

What To Do When a Student Refuses to Work

October 15, 2018 by pathway2success 47 Comments

Throughout my years teaching middle school, I have had the experience of seeing many “work refusals”. These are the situations when kids, for a variety of reasons, just refuse to start the work you give them. They might shut down and rest their head on their desk or lash out in anger, shouting about how […]

Filed Under: Classroom Management, Managing Challenging Behaviors, Social Emotional Learning, Special Education, Teaching

Ways to Help Kids Boost Confidence

October 2, 2018 by pathway2success Leave a Comment

Ways to Help Kids Build Confidence

Helping kid and young adults build their own confidence can have significant and long-lasting effects. Confidence kids are better equipped to handle stress, more likely to take risks, feel more prideful in their work, and have increased determination to reach their goals. By helping kids build their self-esteem, we are giving kids the skills they […]

Filed Under: Growth Mindset, Social Emotional Learning, Special Education, Teaching, Tips for Teachers

5 Daily Struggles for Kids with Executive Functioning Challenges

September 4, 2018 by pathway2success 3 Comments

5 Daily Struggles for Kids with Executive Functioning Challenges and what you can do to help! #adhd #executivefunctioning #specialeducation

A number of kids struggle with executive functioning skills on a daily basis. Sometimes these struggles are obvious, like having a messy binder or forgetting to turn homework in, but other times they are more hidden. This is a critical topic because all educators have these kids in our classrooms every single day. Here are […]

Filed Under: Executive Functioning Skills, Special Education, Study Skills, Teaching, Tips for Teachers

101 Positive Affirmations for Kids

July 18, 2018 by pathway2success 13 Comments

101 positive affirmations for kids and young adults to help boost confidence and promote independence. Whether kids are in preschool, elementary, middle, or high school, all kids can truly benefit from using positive affirmations! #affirmations #positiveaffirmations #positivethinking #pathway2success #specialeducation

Positive thinking is a powerful tool that can improve your health, help you manage stress, overcome challenges, and make better choices. Everyone can benefit from improving their positive thinking and self-talk skills! The idea is that by changing your thinking, you can better manage your emotions and your actions. Positive thinking skills often start with […]

Filed Under: Growth Mindset, Social Emotional Learning, Special Education, Teaching

An Open Letter to Administrators of Special Educators

July 2, 2018 by pathway2success 5 Comments

An Open Letter to Administrators of Special Educators

Dear administrators, Let me start off by saying that I write this letter on behalf of special educators. While it’s true that I might not speak for every single special ed teacher, after spending 10 years in the classroom, I like to think I speak for many. First off, we truly appreciate all that you […]

Filed Under: Back to School, Special Education, Teaching, Tips for Teachers

10 Ways to Build Relationships with Kids

June 17, 2018 by pathway2success 2 Comments

10 Ways to Build Meaningful Relationships with Kids and Young Adults

Relationship building is the single most important way you can impact a child’s life. So often, kids actually can’t learn from someone they can’t connect with. I’m also convinced that building a strong relationship with a kid or young adult diminishes a huge number of behavior challenges. Many times I worked with students who were […]

Filed Under: Back to School, Classroom Management, Managing Challenging Behaviors, Social Emotional Learning, Special Education, Teaching, Tips for Teachers

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Acting calm is a powerful de-escalation tool. We h Acting calm is a powerful de-escalation tool. We have to model the behaviors we want students to use and follow.
Executive functioning skills are a work in progres Executive functioning skills are a work in progress. I think this is such an important point to make, especially for kids and teens who struggle. We all start at different places. And sometimes our strategies look different too. What's great is that we can all work on strategies to be better planners, organizers, and time managers.⁣
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Let's normalize that we are each a work in progress. And that progress looks different for every person too.
Conferencing with students. I know this can take u Conferencing with students. I know this can take up a lot of time depending on the number of kids you have, but I wanted to talk about it as a SEL strategy.⁣
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In my classroom, I set up mini binders for each of my students.  In that binder was a page for each of their goals. For example, we might track grades or homework completion. It could be anything though.⁣
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I would meet once a week with each student to review their progress on those goals. How is it going? What strategies are you using? What's working for you? What's not working? What could you do better next week?⁣
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This doesn't need to take a ton of time per student. Just a few minutes. We would check in, make a plan for next week, and file it away.⁣
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What I realized is that a lot of kids are not as self-aware as we'd like to think they are. Many learners NEED these check ins to understand how they're doing and what they need to do to reach that goal.⁣
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Again, I know that this could be more challenging for classroom teachers with 20+ students, but if you can't do it with every child, consider making it an intervention for the few who are struggling.
It is SPRING! 😍 A few calming spring activities It is SPRING! 😍 A few calming spring activities to try.
Lots of times, kids who are struggling to complete Lots of times, kids who are struggling to complete the work often have reasons behind their challenges. We might not always see those challenges at first, but they're there.
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