Students examine completed projects to identify the individual components and actions required to create them, distinguishing between the final product and the process.
A highly visual, color-coded math lesson introducing mean, median, mode, and range to IEP students using adorable pet shelter statistics. Highly structured layout with minimal text density and supportive visual cues.
A grammar assessment designed for middle school students in a self-contained classroom reading at a first-grade level. The quiz covers past-tense verbs, common/proper nouns, singular/plural nouns, and identifying parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective) in simple context, complete with a teacher answer key.
A comprehensive functional life skills unit teaching hygiene independence, self-advocacy, and workplace readiness for middle and high school special education students. Includes visual matching, body signal decoding, safe-adult communication scripts, sourcing maps, emergency kit preparation, and workplace scenario analysis.
A modified, highly visual math lesson on Mean, Median, Mode, and Range tailored for IEP students. Features visual anchor charts with picture symbols, step-by-step color-coded graphic organizers, task cards with hands-on counting counters, and highly scaffolded worksheets.
A detailed literary exploration of Chapters 6-10 of Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting. Students analyze Winnie's reactions to the Tucks' messy, timeless lifestyle compared to her own orderly home, focusing on her growing internal choices and the concept of living outside the wheel of life.
A literary investigation of the prologue through chapter 5 of Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting. Students explore setting contrasts and the mysterious meeting between Winnie and Jesse, while teachers leverage structured scaffolds and checks for understanding.
An accommodated, highly-scaffolded study guide and lesson resources focused on the 'Dr. Holiday' chapter of Walter Dean Myers' memoir, Bad Boy. Students explore character traits, comparison of adult figures, vocabulary, and cause-and-effect relationships surrounding Walter's behavior.
Session 8 synthesizes the 8-week journey. The student compiles their logs into a personalized confidence guide and celebrates their testing achievements.
Session 7 explores more complex decisions under pressure, teaching the student how to weigh risks and rewards using a simple visual rating tool.
Session 6 addresses social interactions. The student learns low-demand social scripts and structured visual recipes for peer connection.
Session 5 covers processing unexpected outcomes. The student learns to analyze results without self-blame, using a structured "trail debugging" framework.
Session 4 focuses on gradually expanding the comfortable operating zone by setting up and running tiny, controlled trials in a safe environment, mapping Core, Stretch, and Storm zones.
Session 3 introduces structured decision-making. The student learns to map decisions into binary "trail forks," reducing cognitive overload and paralysis.
Session 2 re-frames the fear of trying new things. The student learns to treat new activities as low-stakes "scouting runs" where mistakes are just "terrain map data."
Session 1 establishes the "Field Guide" and "Wildwood Scouting" metaphor, helping the student identify their individual strengths as "field gear specs" to build baseline confidence.
A comprehensive IEP goal draft and progress tracking system designed for a sixth-grade student to build autonomy, utilize resources, show math work, and self-monitor during struggles.
A highly scaffolded, visual lesson on mean, median, mode, and range tailored specifically for students with IEPs and learning differences. Features structured fill-in-the-blank formula templates, graphic organizers, and leveled worksheets.
An inspiring lesson exploring the life of Dr. Temple Grandin, her experiences with autism, and how she used her unique sensory perspective and engineering skills to design emotional regulation tools like the 'squeeze machine'. Students read a biography, explore real-world examples of sensory regulation, and reflect on their own sensory needs.
A collection of executive functioning resources designed to help students master school-day transitions, arrival, and dismissal routines using visual desk checklists, a modeled presentation, and a comprehensive teacher guide.
A comprehensive Wilson-aligned study of multisyllabic words and suffixes. Students practice syllable division using visual scooping and explore word meanings.
A 5-page baseball-themed worksheet packet and answer key designed for a 6th-grade student to practice nonliteral language, inference, multiple meaning words, and identifying communication breakdowns.
A comprehensive social skills lesson package designed to teach, practice, and track progress on conversational turn-taking, topic maintenance, and active listening for elementary and middle school students with social communication IEP goals.
An IEP toolkit featuring a measurable social-emotional goal, a concrete evaluation rubric, and weekly progress monitoring trackers specifically designed to help a 6th-grade student navigate unstructured social settings and competitive activities.
A comprehensive set of speech-language therapy activities designed for 6th-grade students, focusing on Tier 2 vocabulary, figurative language comprehension, and communication style identification through a Fantasy Quest video game theme.
A comprehensive review unit for Wilson Reading Program Steps 6 through 12, focusing on syllable marking, complex suffix patterns, r-controlled vowels, and vowel digraphs.
A Tier 2 intervention lesson focused on identifying the main idea and supporting details using a construction and blueprint theme. Students learn to distinguish the 'big structure' from the 'supporting pillars' in non-fiction texts.
A highly visual lesson designed for students with severe disabilities to identify trusted adults at school, at home, and in the community. Includes multi-sensory prompts and clear visual supports.
A step-by-step instructional sequence for teaching special education students how to find the area of tilted squares using the subtraction (bounding box) method. The lesson breaks down a complex geometric task into simple, repeatable visual steps.
A set of visual tools and strategies designed to help students who experience shutdown or withdrawal after making mistakes, reframing errors as manageable 'glitches' that can be repaired.
A supportive lesson designed to help autistic children move from silent withdrawal to a growth mindset by framing mistakes as technical 'glitches' that can be fixed.
This lesson helps students with ASD and anxiety understand the professional boundaries between themselves and their support staff, focusing on respectful language and navigating frustration during difficult tasks.
A foundational lesson on mean, median, mode, and range designed for students requiring modified curriculum. It features single-digit data sets and step-by-step guided templates to support various learning needs.
A lesson designed for students with moderate intellectual disabilities and social/pragmatic challenges to learn how to use AI as a 'social sidekick' when they feel stuck or overwhelmed while texting friends.
A behavioral intervention lesson designed to provide a student with immediate, portable visual cues for self-regulation and a framework for accountability after conflict.
A fast-paced interactive game lesson designed for middle school students to master stuttering strategies, vocabulary, and facts. The lesson centers around a competitive 'game show' format to build confidence and fluency knowledge.
A comprehensive toolkit designed to help students navigate social interactions with peers. It includes visual aids for reading cues, a safety plan for overwhelming situations, and tools for tracking social growth.
A specialized set of resources for tracking and assessing a student's ability to solve complex, multi-step math word problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
This lesson provides students with a visual framework for understanding why schedules change, how to identify those changes, and what coping strategies to use when feeling overwhelmed.
A foundational lesson for special education students on email etiquette and structure, focusing on the difference between formal and casual tones and the essential components of an email.
A review lesson covering Jackie Robinson, David Ortiz, and Jim Abbott, using visual identification to reinforce key facts.
A visually supported lesson about Jim Abbott, a famous pitcher who played with one hand, focusing on his strength and success.
A visually supported lesson about Jackie Robinson's life and legacy, focusing on his courage and the number 42.
A visually-heavy introductory lesson about the life and career of baseball legend David Ortiz, designed for students with limited literacy in their native Spanish.
A lesson designed for 6th-grade students with ASD to identify early warning signs of anger and implement immediate de-escalation strategies. This lesson uses a mechanical 'workshop' metaphor to help students visualize their emotional regulation as a system they can manage.
A lesson designed for middle school students reading at an elementary level, focusing on identifying main ideas and supporting details through the lens of a detective investigating "clues" in texts about animals, bike riding, and fishing.