Middle School Mission

A reading comprehension lesson designed for 8th-grade self-contained ELA students reading at a 5th-6th grade level. It includes a scaffolded student worksheet with visual multiple-choice options and a teacher guide with pacing and strategies.

A comprehensive tracking and visual support system designed to monitor and reinforce safe peer interactions (keeping hands, feet, and body to self) in compliance with an IEP goal. Includes a teacher-led detailed observation packet, an easy-to-use assistant log for inclusion times, and a student-facing desktop visual regulation mat.

This lesson introduces and structures the '1, 2, 3' transition protocol (1: Organize, 2: Stand, 3: Move) to establish class-wide efficiency. Through modeling, guided practice, and independent application, students master essential classroom routines.

A structured mini-lesson and resource bundle to teach, practice, and master the classroom chime routine. Features a clear 'I Do, We Do, You Do' progression to establish the immediate 'Stop, Look, and Listen' behavior.

A comprehensive annual functional skills pacing framework for grades K-8. This framework structures a whole-school alignment across living, social-emotional, and community safety domains, optimized for special education administrators, resource teachers, and service providers.

A Life Skills lesson for Grades 5-8 teaching personal space boundaries during school greetings. Students learn to maintain an arm's length distance, avoid unexpected touching, use respectful attention-seeking strategies, and practice greetings using AAC and visual supports.

An encouraging summer learning guide designed to help rising and repeating 7th-grade students build key math and ELA skills. The resource establishes clear goals, provides a 10-week tracker, and maintains a growth-focused tone to build confidence.

A beginning-of-the-year lesson teaching students the schoolwide HALLS procedure for safe and respectful hallway transitions. This lesson covers explicit teacher modeling, interactive student roleplay, and self-assessment of the HALLS expectations.

A complete lesson bundle about Japan designed specifically for IEP students using highly simplified text and visual communication symbols. The bundle includes an interactive slide deck, matching visual guided notes, a symbol-matching activity worksheet, and a teacher facilitation guide with sensory connections.

A scaffolded biology project designed for students with IEPs to master cell structures and functions by comparing them to familiar school roles and areas. Includes a highly structured graphic organizer, a simplified rubric, and modeling slides.

A structured literacy lesson aligned with Wilson Reading System Step 6.2, focusing on multi-syllabic words with suffixes. Students practice syllable division, spelling, and comprehension using an engaging reading passage about pop superstar Justin Bieber.

A comprehensive IEP goal planning and progress tracking system designed to transition a student from shared aide dependence to independent classroom work completion.

An engaging end-of-year reflection activity designed for middle school speech-language therapy students, featuring a self-assessment survey and printable appreciation cards to express gratitude to peers and school staff.

An adventure-themed speech-language therapy lesson for middle schoolers to practice problem-solving, inferencing, and social communication. Students solve 'island dilemmas' to escape a mysterious tropical island before summer break begins.

A life-skills-focused lesson where students learn to write a formal thank-you note to State Representative Sean Garballey using visual planners, errorless cut-and-paste choice strips, and a printable fold-over greeting card. This lesson scaffold is optimized for students with diverse fine-motor and cognitive needs.

A lesson focused on establishing, presenting, and reinforcing daily routines and transitions for neurodivergent and concrete learners using structured visual schedule supports.

Focuses on cognitive flexibility, teaching students how to adapt to unexpected morning disruptions, schedule changes, or forgotten items using a step-by-step coping and problem-solving framework.

Focuses on organization and order, helping students design efficient physical systems for their backpacks, desks, and lockers, alongside practicing planner management.

Focuses on time management, estimating task durations, and establishing efficient morning routines to arrive at school ready to learn without transition delays.

A speech-language therapy lesson designed to teach minimally verbal autistic students how to read and comprehend a school visual schedule, building academic vocabulary and independence.

A real-world functional math lesson designed for life skills students. Students navigate a supermarket to locate pantry staples, snack items, and frozen foods, practicing next-dollar-up calculations and pricing comparison.

A comprehensive, highly scaffolded menu math lesson tailored for IEP students. Using a friendly retro diner theme, it covers the Next Dollar Up method, simple decimal addition of two items, and calculating change using concrete visual supports.

A modified math lesson on solving multi-step word problems, specifically designed for students with IEP accommodations. It features highly structured visual graphic organizers, pictorial supports, and sentence frames to break down complex multi-step problems into manageable, sequential steps.

A highly visual, structured lesson designed for middle school students on the autism spectrum to master AM and PM. It uses real-world routines, consistent color-coding (yellow/blue for AM, dark indigo for PM), and structured hands-on tasks to reduce cognitive load and promote independence.

A structured, visually-supported lesson introducing AM and PM concepts tailored for middle school students on the autism spectrum. It utilizes color-coding, predictable routines, and physical sorting to reinforce functional life-skills timing.

A year-long personal reflective diary and mindfulness tool for middle school students, designed with clean layouts and predictable structures to support neurodivergent learners through art, self-expression, and self-regulation prompts.

A rapid, high-energy 15-minute PBIS behavior review lesson designed to align with school-wide expectations. Students learn core behaviors through muscle-memory motions, test their skills as 'STAR Detectives', and demonstrate mastery across four active practice stations.

A lesson designed to build executive functioning skills, self-monitoring, and personal independence during morning routines.

A comprehensive, highly visual lesson teaching students how to assemble and bake a 16-inch pizza using precise measurements. Features step-by-step visual presentation slides for group instruction and printable task cards for individual student kitchen stations.

A set of student and parent-facing materials designed to accompany the distribution and collection of Section 504 plans and required medical documentation for the upcoming school year.

A comprehensive emotional regulation support package designed for students with Major Depressive Disorder and explosive episodes, optimized for a once-a-month counseling and consultation model. It contains the legal IEP goal blueprints, an actionable crisis plan, a student coping and reframing workbook, and progress monitoring tracking tools.

An engaging lesson on how human actions impact animals, plants, and the environment. This lesson includes a highly structured, scaffolded student worksheet and a comprehensive teacher guide with differentiation tips and answer keys.

A supportive, bilingual diagnostic resource set to help an 11-year-old student uncover specific physical, sensory, emotional, and executive functioning barriers in her morning routine.

A comprehensive phonics and syllable review unit focusing on vowel teams, r-controlled vowels, syllable division, and affix-based word building. Includes a multi-page student review packet and a corresponding teacher answer key.

A gamified social-emotional learning lesson designed for a 10-year-old boy with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), framing self-control and respect for authority as powerful video game upgrades. The lesson features comic-strip decision paths and interactive strategy cards to encourage positive choices with teachers and parents.

A biology and taxonomy sorting system designed for older kids (Grades 3-5). Students analyze evolutionary adaptations, label critical anatomical features, and categorize specimens by their taxonomic classes, habitats, and ecological functions.

A retro game-show themed trivia lesson for resource room students in grades 5-8, featuring accessible 5th-grade level questions in Science, Social Studies, and ELA. Includes a slide presentation, printable student answer sheets, and a substitute teacher guide.

A transition lesson designed specifically for middle school students with ASD, focusing on navigating sensory changes, learning social scripts, practicing physical tasks like locker combinations, and organizing multiple classes.

Final Performance Task Completion and Distinction Certificates for Clinton Hill Middle School's Thrive department, customized for the Providence, MIT, and Princeton classrooms for June 2026.

A hands-on, multi-sensory lesson designed for 6th-grade special education students to master multisyllabic r-controlled vowel words. Students use syllable division rules (VCCV and VCV) to dissect words, physically construct them using interactive puzzle mats, and categorize them by their r-controlled spelling patterns.

A comprehensive lesson designed to help students generalize and transfer their executive functioning skills—including emotional regulation, focus, flexibility, and organization—across various settings.