Who is prepping more work boxes this summer? I just love getting new ideas, especially for our older life skill students! Christina Bailey, a transition life skill teacher, offered to share a bunch of her work boxes on my blog! Thank you Christina! Christina works with transition aged students (19-26 years old) with severe cognitive and/or health impairments. Her school serves students from multiple school districts within the county who learn best in an alternative placement. Are you ready?…

The most important thing to keep in mind when planning to meet the needs of students is that they are all unique individuals with unique needs. The diversity in human beings is beautiful. It is worth celebrating. Unfortunately, I don’t think teachers get enough training in teacher prep programs or

These 5 awesome ways to teach special needs learners letters include playdough, sand, cars and sprinkles as learning tools.

Listen to this Special Ed Podcast with 15 great ideas for Functional Centers for students with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism in High School. Read more and subscribe today!

Looking for some fun special education crafts? These spring visual crafts are the perfect addition to your spring lesson plans. Students get to work on following directions, fine motor skills, and more with these hands-on activities for spring. You will get 4 kids crafts for spring with this download. You can also use these for a Mother’s Day craft and gift as well.

First off, I need to apologize for not blogging since MAY! It's been a crazy couple of months. I moved TWICE since my last post and managed to start and end one job as a children's director at a Christian camp and begin a new one as a special education teacher. I am currently teaching 10 amazing, sassy, stubborn, and unpredictable 3-5th graders and LOVING it. I have an amazing support system at my school and have been learning so much from my principal, my psychologist, my instructional…

Foil Painting, no more complicated than regular painting set up/clean up but a new medium

Visual crafts in the special education classroom have so many benefits. Each month, I love sharing themed visual crafts you can use with your special education students to work on fine motor skills, following directions, and so much more. These September crafts include fall themed crafts for kids that are perfect for back to school. You can even use these crafts as your back to school bulletin board or fall bulletin board.

Hi readers! It goes without saying that the world is primarily tailored to those without disabilities. In this post I am going to offer my best advice for

Easy Valentine's Heart Scrape Painting Craft for preschoolers and kindergarteners. A fun arts and crafts activity for kids to try this Valentine's day. #valentine #artsandcrafts #preschool #kindergarten