As a Special Education Teacher, you are always helping others. But who supports YOU? In this podcast, I'll be sharing my SPED tips, tricks, researched based strategies, and professional development to help you grow and learn as a resource room teacher. In the coming seasons, I'll be discussing how to improve reading comprehension, decoding, encoding, math computation, and so much more!
What are you doing in your math intervention groups? In this four part series, I'll be sharing what I do in my resource room. Today's focus is all about computation! I'll be sharing: How can you make computation fun? How can you progress monitor? How much time I spend of my thirty minute group? Links Mentioned: Free Week of Math Intervention Math Bingo Freebie...
Alison Ryan, M.Ed, has been working in schools since 2005 as a classroom teacher, reading interventionist, reading specialist, and Director of Curriculum & Instruction. She is trained in the Orton-Gillingham method, has extensive experience working with struggling readers, and has a master’s degree in literacy leadership. Links Mentioned: Phonics Routines Blog Post Phonics Diagnostic Assessment Find Alison Online: Website Facebook Instagram TeachersPayTeachers...
Lindsay Sauer is a passionate first grade teacher. She shares resources, tips, and tricks she's learned over the years! She's a working mom who has changed everything after reentering the classroom and completely revamping everything about my practice. She's also a published author. After preparing a guide to help her student teacher, she realized that so many teachers needed the questions and reminders for good classroom management. Many revisions later, she's sharing her big THREE for back to ...
Stephanie is the author behind Mrs. D’s Corner . She’s your go-to-girl for inspiration on everything elementary special education. Her passion is making grade-level content functional, engaging, and meaningful for all students, and to make learning fun and easy by providing tried and true lessons and activities that are implementation ready, differentiation provided. She provides tips, tricks, and hacks that actually work in the special education classroom setting. And she’s your biggest advocat...
Brandie is a behavior consultant, teacher mentor, and coach. She mentors new teachers and provides online Professional Development. She believes that teaching is hard, but you don’t have to do it alone! Links Mentioned: IEPs Untangled Bite Size Behavior Find Brandie Online: Website Facebook Instagram...
Megan Ocken-Helmen is a Pediatric Neuropsychologist and the owner of Developmental Discoveries. She believes in balancing clinical expertise and research-based interventions with connection and a sense of humor. She also believes in respecting each child as a whole human who can be included in the evaluation process. Collaborating with parents to better understand their child and seeing ‘the lightbulb go on’ is a rewarding experience. She loves that her job allows her to hyperfocus on my interes...
I love me some Chick-fil-A, and my impatient self can even go through their drive thru no matter how long that line is. Our progress monitoring should be the same. Using this analogy, I compare progress monitoring to the Chick-fil-A drive thru to help us realize how important a good system is for successful and easy progress monitoring.
Does writing written expression goals overwhelm you? Maybe because there are so many components and it's easy to get lost. In this episode, I'll be breaking apart all things written expression.
Do you ever wonder where to start with reading comprehension goals? They are complex and have many layers. In this episode, I'm breaking down reading comprehension to make writing and defining those goals a little easier!
Progress monitoring can be extremely overwhelming for special education teachers. And with good reason, honestly. It is important for instruction and provides accountability to parents, teachers, and administration. However, that does't mean that it needs to be hard, complicated, or time consuming. In this episode, I'm sharing the mistakes that I have made throughout the year that have made progress monitoring more painful than it should be. I also share that I have a webinar for special educati...
Today, I'm sharing an interview I did with two special education teachers who are using my special education reading intervention in their resource rooms. I love hearing ideas for implementing it that might just be different from the way that I typically share. And these girls have a LOT of great ideas and insights! ❤️ You can download the free week of intervention that these sweet ladies were talking with me about here: https://quiet-moon-3462.ck.page/e77fd2594b...
This summer, as I've been sharing my webinars, I keep seeing special education teachers asking the same questions over and over. I saw it so much that I decided to veer off of my pre-planned schedule to record a few episodes about the mistakes that we are making as well as some things that we can do differently. In this episode, I mention my Reading and Math webinars that can be watched on demand. Below, you'll find the links, so you can work to develop some really great routines for your studen...
Dawn Ellis has been teaching for over 12 years in elementary and preschool special education and has an Educational Specialist degree in Special Education. Dawn has also a National Board Certified Teacher in the area of Exceptional Needs Specialist. She has worked with inclusion, resource, severe/profound, and autism classrooms throughout the years. She has been a state finalist for Teacher of the Year, as well as other awards within the district and state. One of her most noted accomplishments ...
Sarah Paul is a reading interventionalist for kindergarten through third grade. Prior to that, she taught first grade. She has a blog called Sarah's Teaching Snippets that she started in 2010. She started studying dyslexia about ten years ago, which began her journey with the science of reading. She has received OG training through the Dyslexia Training Institute and additional training through PDX Reading Specialist. Links Mentioned: Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz Explicit Instruction by...
Caitlin is a certified special education teacher and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. She works full time as a behaviorist for a public school district. In addition, she teaches part time for Rutgers University (Graduate School of Education) and manages a successful Teachers Pay Teachers store (Beltrans Behavior Basics). Find Beltran's Behavior Basics: Instagram TeachersPayTeachers...
Meredith Mitchell is a special education teacher with over 20 years of experience. In 2021, she was named teacher of the year for the state of Alabama for District III. Meredith has her own special education consulting business called Meredith Mitchell’s Methods. She speaks at conferences all over the south east educating other special educators on how to write IEPs that are manageable, measurable, and meaningful. She is also a Master IEP Coach. When she not teaching, she spends time with her fa...
Brittany Blackwell, M.Ed. is an award-winning special educator and self-care strategist from South Carolina with over ten years of experience working with elementary and middle school classrooms. Brittany is no stranger to teacher burnout and has a passion for empowering teachers, parents, and students to prioritize self-care and mental health. Brittany's digital approach to self-care through digital planning, vision boards, and strategies has reached the homes of thousands of educators across t...
Tiffaney is a Special Education teacher and single mother who finally decided to go for her dreams of designing shirts and becoming a Special education teacher. Links Mentioned: Happy Mail Find De'avionBlu Innovations: Website Instagram
Dana Howell is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and the face behind BIAS Behavioral. She has over 15 years of experience in the field of special education. Her mission is to help parents and school professionals learn evidence-based strategies which they can use to safely manage challenging behavior. She breaks down tough behavioral concepts into visually engaging, actionable steps that anyone can use. Links Mentioned: Smarty Symbols Visual Supports on TpT Find BIAS Behavioral Online: Website ...
Emily Norris is an Alabama native passionate about inclusive education for all! She is currently a K-3 resource special education teacher servicing children with Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Specific Learning Disabilities. Emily has served on the Teach it Special team as a presenter, won Teacher of the Year for her sweet school for the 2020-2021 school year, and presented multiple times for differing professional development platforms on supporting behaviors in the general education classroom. Em...
Jennifer has held a variety of roles in special education for over 25 years! She entered the classroom every day dedicated to making learning inclusive AND engaging. As much as she loved seeing her students' faces light up, she now feels the EXACT same way mentoring other teachers. Through instructional coaching, mentoring, and content creation, Jennifer is sharing what she’s learned along the way. At Positively Learning Blog , you will find behavior supports grounded in restorative practice, tr...
I could sit and talk about special education all day long. In this surprise, finale episode, I invited back all of this season's guests to talk about several special education topics. Links Mentioned: Amanda's Solid Colored Amazon Shirts Amanda's Camo Amazon Shirt Cassandra's Snow Shoveling Meme...
Cassandra is a self contained behavior teacher from Indiana. She's a good friend of mine and is always full of helpful ideas and strategies. She's a full time teacher and mom to a newborn. She's sharing her tips for making data collection easier to save you time!
Stephanie is the author behind Mrs. D’s Corner . She’s your go-to-girl for inspiration on everything elementary special education. Her passion is making grade-level content functional, engaging, and meaningful for all students, and to make learning fun and easy by providing tried and true lessons and activities that are implementation ready, differentiation provided. She provides tips, tricks, and hacks that actually work in the special education classroom setting. And she’s your biggest advocat...
After a debate in The Resource Room FB Group, I thought an episode was needed. What are accommodations? What are modifications? Do you know the difference? Click Here to Read the Blog Post with Freebie Mentioned
Kristy is a resource room teacher in Texarkana! Her school has been experimenting with coteaching this year. She's sharing her experience and relationships with various teachers to help other resource room teachers gather ideas for co-teaching with other general education teachers.
Michelle is a resource room teacher from Arkansas. She is one of the most creative people I’ve met. She loves to create activities for her students to keep them engaged and meet their needs. Links Mentioned: Linktree Whole Brain Teaching...
Lisa Hollady is the creator of Chalkboard Superhero. She grew up in central New York and always knew she wanted to be a special education teacher. After graduating with her Masters in 2008, she has been working with students on the spectrum. She has had an array of different abilities but most of which had ASD. She worked in a self-contained setting in elementary for 8 years. This past year, she took a new position in a different district at the High School level in a 6:1:3 intensive Autism prog...
Heather is a special education teacher mentor. She helps self-contained special education teachers with individualized and personalized support to make self-assured educational decisions so that you can avoid the stress, overwhelm, and burnout in this field. I believe special education teachers are better together! She has been a special education teacher in Illinois for 8 years! She’s taught in self-contained classroom settings for middle school and high school students. She currently teaches m...
Whitney works with kindergarten through sixth grade students with special needs in Phoenix, Arizona. She absolutely loves it. Her passion is helping both students and educators through sharing products, resources, and ideas. She enjoy sharing her knowledge while also continuing to learn from others. Whitney uses her experience as a former paraprofessional to help maximize student growth and success through training and utilizing her paraprofessional. Find Rooted in Resource: Instagram Facebook F...
