A mastery-based 'Repair Clinic' where students apply all learned strategies to fix 'broken' conversations. Students rotate through stations solving muddled idioms, undetected sarcasm, and vague instructions.
A sensory-based regulation system lesson designed to establish quick, silent coping zones in classrooms during high-energy periods, facilitating collaboration between teachers and behavior interventionists.
Teaches students to distinguish between essential items (needs) and non-essential items (wants), and guides them through making simple purchases within a fixed budget.
Students practice making simple exact transactions up to five dollars, simulating visual school store scenarios to build independent living skills.
Introduces the Next-Dollar Up strategy, teaching students with cognitive and learning disabilities how to determine how many one-dollar bills to pay for items with decimal prices.
Focuses on recognizing physical coins and bills, matching them to their numeric values, and sorting money in physical or visual formats for students with significant cognitive disabilities.
An interactive, game-based transition unit for middle school students with low cognitive needs. It teaches essential routines, social-emotional skills, and support systems through guided scenario-based choices.
A self-advocacy and transition planning lesson where middle school students discover their strengths, identify necessary accommodations, and design a 'Transition Passport' to present to their future teachers.
An advanced listening comprehension lesson building on visualization and active note-taking strategies with longer oral passages, denser pop culture topics, and an increased volume of targeted comprehension questions.
A highly scaffolded lesson on finding the mean, median, mode, and range using small, single-digit datasets (3-5 numbers) designed specifically for students with IEP accommodations.
A lesson designed for 6th-grade students with low cognitive abilities to master basic time management. It uses structured visual supports, hands-on sorting cards, and simplified matching worksheets to connect times of day (morning, afternoon, night) and hours to daily school and home routines.
An evidence-based training program targeting letter reversals in upper elementary students, incorporating Trace-Copy-Cover-Closed and spatial-motor anchors.
A history-of-technology lesson designed for middle school students reading at a first-grade level. It explores the evolution of music formats from vinyl records to modern streaming, supported by a visual timeline and simple vocabulary footnotes.
A personalized lesson framework designed to support a 6th-grade student with autism in developing cognitive flexibility, utilizing a structured social story, visual desk cues, and a targeted SBA Bucks reinforcement tracker.
A gamified behavior tracking and support system designed to structure unstructured school times like recess, lunch, and snack. It includes a weekly AM/PM point-tracking chart and a goal-setting setup guide to promote positive peer interactions, safe play, and self-regulation.
A structured morning routine sequence designed for middle school ASD students to support emotional regulation, sensory tracking, and executive functioning. Includes interactive visual slides and a corresponding daily check-in worksheet to establish a predictable, calming start to the school day.
A transition-focused lesson featuring an accessible "All About Me" survey for middle school students with accommodations, alongside a guide for teachers to translate student responses into IEP goals and classroom support strategies.
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.