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15+ SEL Activities to Strengthen Classroom Community

March 21, 2023 by pathway2success Leave a Comment

15+ SEL Activities to Strengthen Classroom Community

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The 7 Most Important De-escalation Strategies for Challenging Behaviors

March 7, 2023 by pathway2success Leave a Comment

De-escalation is the process of calming down a situation before it escalates further. It is helping to slowly bring the temperature down before it reaches a boiling point. This is critically important skill for all educators and parents because children and young adults feel overwhelmed and angry sometimes; we all do. With that said, learning […]

Filed Under: Coping Strategies, Managing Challenging Behaviors, Social Emotional Learning

What to Do When A Student Won’t Go to Class

February 21, 2023 by pathway2success Leave a Comment

What do you do when a student won’t go to class? As a special educator in middle school, this was a problem I commonly encountered. The student might stay in resource room, hang down at the nurse’s office, or even worse, wander the hallways. Basically, they will do anything to avoid being in their scheduled […]

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15+ Proactive Anger Management Strategies for Children and Teens

February 14, 2023 by pathway2success Leave a Comment

Strong feelings of anger and frustration can cause kids and teens to shut down or even act out in aggressive ways. It goes without saying that this can become a challenge in the classroom, at home, or anywhere in a child’s life. Kids and young adults might experience anger and frustration for a variety of […]

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50+ Executive Functioning Read Alouds

January 18, 2023 by pathway2success Leave a Comment

Literature can be a critical tool for teaching and strengthening executive functioning skills. Reading can be a simple, fun, and engaging way to approach skills like organization, self-control, attention, and perseverance. The idea is pretty simple: just read the stories and discuss the skills as they come along. Integrating reading and executive functioning skills is […]

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9 Executive Functioning Abilities Learners Use In Every Class

January 3, 2023 by pathway2success Leave a Comment

Understanding executive functioning skills is important for every educator. That’s because students use many executive functioning processes in the classroom every single day. When we understand these abilities, we can teach, target, and support them when we need to. What are executive functioning skills? Executive functioning skills are the processes in our brain that help […]

Filed Under: Executive Functioning Skills Tagged With: executive functioning, study skills

12 Simple Ways to Practice Mindfulness

December 19, 2022 by pathway2success Leave a Comment

Mindfulness is a self-regulation strategy. With practice, it can help us feel calm, confident, and focused. And while it’s very helpful for us, as adults, mindfulness is a powerful skill we can teach to children and young adults. The goal of this article is to promote simple mindful strategies you can try with your students […]

Filed Under: Mindfulness, Social Emotional Learning

20+ Homework Strategies for Parents

December 13, 2022 by pathway2success Leave a Comment

Homework can be a big source of frustration for kids and parents at home. Even more, it can be a challenge that carries over from home to school when the child doesn’t complete the work and is behind in class. If your child is struggling with homework, read through these strategies and give some a […]

Filed Under: Back to School, Executive Functioning Skills, Special Education, Study Skills Tagged With: homework, organization, study skills, tips for parents

Positive Self-Talk for Executive Functioning Success

November 16, 2022 by pathway2success Leave a Comment

Children and teens with executive functioning deficits struggle with skills like planning, organization, time management, and attention. While there are many supports and strategies to put in place for kids and teens with executive functioning challenges, positive self-talk is one simple technique we can teach our learners. The idea behind positive self-talk is simple; It’s […]

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10 Brain Games to Boost Executive Functioning Skills

November 2, 2022 by pathway2success Leave a Comment

For kids and teens who struggle with basic executive functioning skills, improving them isn’t always easy. Brain games can help with this by making it fun to practice skills like organization, time management, attention, and working memory. Whether kids are finding words in a puzzle or deciphering a hidden code, brain games turn a fun […]

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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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