Battery Charger Teacher Guide

A 2-page comprehensive teacher facilitation guide and lesson plan designed for special education educators. It includes workshop objectives, sensory accommodations, a step-by-step lesson outline, discussion prompts, and strategies for supporting 9th graders in managing their social battery over the summer.

EFElizabeth Fouse

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Kingdom of Feelings

A 5-week emotional regulation curriculum for students with moderate intellectual disabilities (approx. 60 IQ). Using beloved animated characters (Elsa, Aladdin, Ursula, Wreck-It Ralph, and Po from Kung Fu Panda), students learn to identify poor coping choices and practice concrete, positive replacement behaviors through highly visual slide decks, consistent routine-based teacher guides, and simple visual choice activities.

Janice Zimmerman

Social Detective Academy

A neurodiversity-affirming social skills and cues lesson utilizing visual-heavy, comic-strip style social stories. Students explore conversations, reading facial expressions, personal boundaries, and coping with unexpected changes through interactive activities.

Clara

Social Detective Guide

A parent and therapist facilitation guide for the Social Detective Comic Booklet. Provides pacing suggestions, neurodiversity-affirming interaction guidelines, and sensory-friendly extension activities.

Clara

Evidence Investigators

A targeted 6-session reading comprehension intervention program for high school students. Designed for 1-on-1 special education services over three 6-day cycles, this program focuses on literal tracking, inferential reasoning, and synthesis using a mature, engaging investigative notebook theme.

Cameron Shelmire

Sensory Zones Regulation

An autism-friendly collection of sensory and somatic self-regulation materials that combine the Zones of Regulation with physical grounding techniques. Includes interactive strategy choice boards, portable desk-sized visual strips, and a comprehensive teacher implementation guide.

Clara

Social Detective Comic Booklet

An interactive, visual-heavy comic-strip style social stories booklet for autistic clients. Features stories and writing/drawing spaces for Conversation Cues, Reading Expressions, Personal Space, and Handling Unexpected Changes.

Clara

Life Budget Basics

A highly visual, step-by-step budgeting unit designed for high school students with severe special needs. It focuses on earning income, distinguishing wants from needs to save money, and using a calculator to pay bills.

Michelle Goode

Pos Dragon Scroll

Week 5 focuses on Po and low self-esteem. Students explore how Po felt clumsy and said mean things to himself (poor coping), and learn replacement behaviors: positive self-talk, looking in the mirror to find their inner strength, and trying their best.

Janice Zimmerman

Regulation Teacher Guide

A comprehensive teacher implementation guide explaining how to introduce, model, and maintain sensory choice boards and desk-sized visual strips. Features evidence-based instructional strategies and troubleshooting tips for autistic students.

Clara

Suffix Spelling Rules

A reading intervention unit targeting the critical spelling changes that occur at suffix boundaries, designed for older struggling readers. The sequence covers final consonant doubling and silent-e dropping logic.

Alexis Paolini

Somatic Desk Strips

A collection of four printable, desk-sized horizontal visual strips. Each strip contains a clear, 4-step somatic sequencing strategy customized for a specific Zone of Regulation (Red, Yellow, Blue, Green) to aid portable independent grounding.

Clara

Linguistic Signals

A structured high school reading intervention sequence focusing on silent consonants, orthographic markers, pluralization rules, and academic spelling structures.

Battery Charger Teacher Guide