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100+ Read Alouds to Teach Social Emotional Learning Skills

August 24, 2019 by pathway2success 4 Comments

Social emotional learning skills are important. Every educator wants their learners to understand their own strengths and challenges, effectively cope with stress, persevere through challenges, have empathy for others, develop lasting friendships, and make positive decisions. These are really just a few examples of what skills social emotional learning can cover. There are numerous benefits […]

Filed Under: Social Emotional Learning, Special Education, Teaching Tagged With: empathy, sel, social emotional learning, social skills, special education, teaching, teaching ideas

25+ Strategies for Kids with ADHD

May 19, 2019 by pathway2success 3 Comments

Kids and young adults with ADHD can be extremely bright, creative, and helpful. These are often the learners coming up with new invention ideas, filling up a journal with intricate comic book drawings, and eager to answer all of your questions in class. With that said, learners with ADHD can struggle in the classroom setting. […]

Filed Under: Classroom Management, Managing Challenging Behaviors, Special Education Tagged With: adhd, special education

Interventions for Executive Functioning Challenges: Attention

April 15, 2019 by pathway2success 2 Comments

Over 20 interventions, strategies, and supports to help teach attention skills to kids and young adults. Being able to focus and pay attention is a requirement for learning! Use these activities to help students with ADHD and ALL learners improve focus while improving your classroom management. Try attention grabbers, setting a timer, using fidgets, implementing flexible seating, and more. This is for regular education AND special education needs! #adhd #pathway2success

Challenges with focus and attention can become a huge roadblock to learning for kids and young adults. Simply put, attention is critical to learning. If students can’t focus on the lesson, they are going to struggle with understanding the new content. If students can’t focus on the directions, they are not going to know what […]

Filed Under: Classroom Management, Executive Functioning Skills, Managing Challenging Behaviors, Special Education, Study Skills Tagged With: adhd, attention, executive functioning, special education, study skills, teaching

15+ Ways to Teach Executive Functioning Skills

April 2, 2019 by pathway2success 2 Comments

Over 15 ways to teach executive functioning skills to kids and young adults to help them plan, organize, manage time, learn study skills, pay attention, and more. Helpful tips and tricks for educators and support staff to help students be successful in middle and high school. #executivefunctioning #studyskills #pathway2success

In many ways, strong executive functioning skills are the foundation for success. These are the mental processes that help learners plan through assignments, organize materials, initiate a task, manage time well, stay focused, try new strategies when stuck, and persevere until the completion of a goal. If you think about it, those skills are important […]

Filed Under: Executive Functioning Skills, Special Education, Study Skills Tagged With: executive functioning, growth mindset, high school, middle school, organization, special education, study skills, studying, teens

Interventions for Executive Functioning Challenges: Time Management

February 18, 2019 by pathway2success 3 Comments

20+ interventions and strategies for kids who struggle with time management! This blog post includes tools, tips, ideas, and printable resources for school AND at home to help young adults and teens learn to use time wisely, procrastinate less, and complete tasks well. Great for students with executive functioning challenges, ADHD, and more. #executivefunctioning #timemanagement #pathway2success

Time management skills are essentially life skills. Kids and young adults need this skills now and in the future. All educators and parents want our learners to be able to work independently, use time well, and complete tasks on time. In order to meet these expectations, students need to learn, understand, and continually practice skills […]

Filed Under: Classroom Management, Executive Functioning Skills, Special Education, Study Skills Tagged With: education, executive functioning, special education, teaching, time management

10 Ways to Involve Young Adults in their IEP Meetings

September 17, 2017 by pathway2success 2 Comments

A huge part of our job as special educators is empowering kids and young adults to make positive decisions in their own lives. One simple way to involve our students in some of those important decisions is getting them involved in their own IEP meetings. I always tell kids that they are the most important […]

Filed Under: Special Education, Teaching Tagged With: IEP meetings, special education, teens

50+ Free SEL Resources

September 1, 2017 by pathway2success 20 Comments

Use this list of free resources to use as social emotional learning activities to help you work with kids and young adults. As a special educator for 10 years, I can say without a doubt that we need more social emotional learning supports for kids and young adults. Some of my best days in the […]

Filed Under: Classroom Management, Social Emotional Learning, Special Education Tagged With: counseling, counselor, free resources, freebies, special education

Clipboard Progress Monitoring

August 2, 2017 by pathway2success Leave a Comment

Clipboard Progress Monitoring

Progress monitoring is often a lot of work for educators. In this video, I explain how how to use clipboards in your classroom to help you manage student data and progress monitoring. I love this tip because it’s a simple solution for how to take quick and easy student data on the go! After watching […]

Filed Under: Back to School, Special Education, Tips for Teachers Tagged With: progress monitoring, special education

12 Things Special Educators Need

August 1, 2017 by pathway2success 4 Comments

12 Things Special Educators Need

Being a special educator is an amazing title that comes with lots of prep work and responsibility! There are just some resources that a special educator really needs to have in their classroom to help keep them organized, data-driven, and their students on track. Whether you are prepping your classroom for the back to school […]

Filed Under: Back to School, Special Education, Teaching, Tips for Teachers Tagged With: back to school, special ed, special education, tips for teachers

Using Task Cards to Teach Executive Functioning

July 25, 2017 by pathway2success Leave a Comment

Using Task Cards to Teach Executive Functioning

Executive functioning skills are in everything that we do. They include our ability to have self-control, develop a plan, manage our time, begin an assignment, remember important information, and persevere through a challenging task. Executive functioning skills are definitely academic skills, but they are also life skills. Kids and young adults need plenty of practice […]

Filed Under: Executive Functioning Skills, Special Education, Study Skills Tagged With: executive functioning, special education, task cards

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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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