Your Voice Your Future

This lesson empowers 12th-grade special needs students to understand and practice self-advocacy, focusing on identifying needs and communicating effectively for their post-high school transitions.

LWLatasha Williams

Your Voice Your Future

This lesson empowers 12th-grade special needs students to understand and practice self-advocacy, focusing on identifying needs and communicating effectively for their post-high school transitions.

LWLatasha Williams

Quiet Mouth Squad

An 8-session intensive behavioral intervention sequence for students in grades K-2 targeting vocal noises, humming, or calling out during independent work. It teaches playful replacement behaviors: holding a quiet, puffy 'Bubble Breath' (like a balloon) or a firm 'Lip Press' (making a flat, silent mouth) to settle urges and maintain classroom focus.

Joleen Brady

Chat Detectives

A highly scaffolded reading comprehension lesson designed for literal thinkers to bridge the gap between concrete facts and social inferences. Students analyze a realistic, high-interest text-message exchange to uncover hidden feelings, connect their findings to Robert Frost's 'Nothing Gold Can Stay', and practice evidence-based writing in a non-threatening, game-like format.

Lisa Kmetz

Chat Detectives Answer Key

A single-page teacher answer key displaying complete and correct student responses for the Chat Detectives worksheet, including ticked fact boxes, circled maybes, and the completed Case Closed writing frame.

Lisa Kmetz

All Brains Belong

A comprehensive educational unit celebrating neurodiversity, acceptance, and inclusive communication across elementary grades. It equips educators with slide presentations and reflection tools tailored for K-2 and 3-5 students to cultivate empathetic classrooms.

Courtney Simoni

Club Celebration

Reviews all skills, celebrates student progress with graduation ceremonies, and sets up maintenance plans for classroom reintegration.

Joleen Brady

Chat Detectives Teacher Guide

A 2-page professional Teacher Facilitation Guide containing lesson plans, pacing structures, classroom-ready scripts, visual support guides, and specific neurodivergent-friendly pedagogical strategies to bridge literal text to social inference. Updated to align with the new, sophisticated student choices.

Lisa Kmetz

Grocery Sorting Mastery

A progressive life-skills curriculum designed to teach students how to identify, categorize, and sort grocery items. Starts with kitchen storage sorting (fridge, freezer, pantry) and advances to sorting by major retail grocery store departments.

Michelle Goode

All Day Practice

Focuses on generalizing the replacement behavior to other school settings like recess, the cafeteria, and the art room using visual tracker guides.

Joleen Brady

Chat Detectives Student Worksheet

A 2-page highly scaffolded Clue Detective worksheet featuring a text-message conversation layout. Updated with sophisticated, intellectually respectful, and less obvious answer choices that prevent the student from feeling patronized.

Lisa Kmetz

Workplace Readiness Academy

A comprehensive, highly visual curriculum sequence designed to prepare high school special needs students for employment. It covers critical social-emotional and practical work skills, starting with the job interview process and continuing with key on-the-job expectations, workplace etiquette, and self-advocacy.

Michelle Goode

Eyes and Voice

Refines communication skills by training students to read classmate faces and use simple, quiet signals when they need help.

Joleen Brady

Club Celebration Lesson Plan

A highly detailed 1-page teacher lesson plan for Session 8, focusing on program review, graduation ceremony execution, and maintenance transitions in Grades K-2.

Your Voice Your Future

Self Advocacy Lesson Plan Document