Sunny Side News Template

A bright, playful, and highly organized weekly classroom newsletter template designed for early childhood and elementary classrooms. Features dedicated, themed sections for Academics, Calendar & Events, Student Spotlight, and urgent Parent Action Items, utilizing a cheerful sunny-day aesthetic that is easy to read and customize.

Character Clues

A comprehensive three-lesson sequence designed for intellectually disabled students to identify and analyze character traits, physical features/feelings, and internal motivations using visual cues.

Gena Robinson (sub)

Focus Heroes

A set of visual anchor charts and expectations to help students build independence, stay on task, and manage time during self-directed learning.

Charlotte Witting

Focus Rules Poster

A minimalist, bold rule-based poster designed for quick classroom reference. It features clean, direct behavior statements and high-impact typography.

Charlotte Witting

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

Wings of Freedom

A comprehensive, highly scaffolded novel study packet for Julia Alvarez's 'Before We Were Free', designed specifically for special education students. It includes visual vocabulary aids, interactive maps, graphic organizers, simplified summaries, and a modified assessment.

Wendy Soberanis

Focus Heroes Checklist

A visual, step-by-step behavior checklist designed for early learners to build independent work habits. It features numbered phases, high-quality icons, and simple, actionable guidelines.

Charlotte Witting

I Need Script Intervention

An 8-session intensive behavioral intervention sequence for students in grades K-2 targeting vocal protesting such as screaming, whining, or saying 'No!' when stuck on work. It teaches the 'I Need' Script replacement behavior: pointing to a 'Help' or 'Break' icon and asking calmly 'Help, please' or 'Break, please'.

Joleen Brady

Lunchtime Talkers

A social communication lesson designed to help students practice peer questioning, active listening, and turn-taking during lunch. Includes instructional slides for classroom modeling and printable conversation starter cards for real-time table practice.

Emily Godlew

Flight to Freedom Test

A 2-page modified final assessment featuring simplified multiple-choice questions with reduced options, character matching, and scaffolded short-answer frames.

Wendy Soberanis

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

Instructional Design Toolkit

A curated collection of high-leverage teaching tools and templates designed to streamline lesson planning and implement Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles in elementary school classrooms (Grades 1-5).

Lenny

Anita Freedom Diary

A 3-page reading companion containing highly scaffolded, low-readability chapter-by-chapter summaries and simplified comprehension questions with sentence frames.

Sunny Side News Template