by Kirsten U | May 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Your students depend on you to be an anti-racist teacher. Your Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, and students of all marginalized groups need you to be actively anti-racist. They don’t need you to be colorblind. Instead, kids need you to see them for who they...
by Kirsten U | May 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
A Go Bag is the bag you keep near your classroom door so that you have it handy at all times for a fire drill, evacuation, tornado, or other emergency. Go bags should be created with your specific students in mind, but here are some essentials for your emergency go...
by Kirsten U | May 20, 2020 | Class Management, Professional
Learn Executive Functioning Skills Do you have students with ADD or ADHD? Or maybe a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Perhaps they have another reason they need help with their executive functioning skills, or maybe the reason isn’t clear. Regardless of the reason,...
by Kirsten U | May 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
This article is based on strategies from Response to Intervention by a Child with Severe Reading Disability. I highly recommend you read this article about “Mike,” a 4th grader who improved his reading with these strategies. The link to the article is at...
by Kirsten U | May 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dear Special Education Teachers, Thank you. You don’t hear it enough, so here it is again. Thank you. This year has been really, really tough. You’re a trouper for making it this far. Even if it feels like you are not making progress, being there for the...
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