Teaching the concept of perseverance can sometimes be difficult, and I have found certain books to be very helpful! For the month of January, our PBIS topic at our school is perseverance. Here are 5 of my favorite books on Perseverance for your students in Elementary school. Perseverance Books List 2. Even Superheroes Have Bad Days: This is such an adorable story for elementary school ... Read More about 5 Awesome Books About Perseverance for Elementary Students

Sensory spaces in classrooms help provide students effective ways to self regulate and go back to learning. With so many products and ways to support sensory spaces, it can often feel overwhelming at times. After creating multiple sensory spaces for the teachers at my school, here are the essential things to consider. Seating Students need seating that clearly identifies the space within ... Read More about 5 Ways to Create Amazing Sensory Spaces

Amazing sensory walls are fun and interactive experiences that help students manage and explore their feelings. After creating the space at our school, I wanted to share insights from my journey. Our school just lost our Title 1 funding and had to get creative with our budgets.  Here are four things that I have learned. Get Creative With The Space Our school was growing, so we had to think ... Read More about How to Build An Amazing Sensory Wall for Elementary Schools

See Think Wonder is a visual thinking strategy used in arts integration. Arts integration is an impactful way to teach content to students. It allows me t teach students how to use art to create, reflect on knowledge, and connect with their areas of interest. If you are new to arts integration, or you have been using arts integration for a long time, there are some tools that are just tried and ... Read More about Using See, Think, Wonder Strategy In The Classroom

Being a first year teacher can be both exciting and scary! I have been in education for a long time…more than 10 years, but less than 20. Some where years of extreme stress where I felt that I barely had a moment to breathe. Thankfully, most were years of comfort mixed with ebbs and flows of great, good, ok, and bad days…days of most jobs. With that said, the years of Covid 19 brought on more ... Read More about Advice to a First Year Teacher

Arts integration has had such a profound impact on the way I support students. It has been m Here are five of the most important ways that arts integration has impacted my counseling lessons. 1 . My core curriculum  lessons became more fun to teach. When I first started working as a school counselor, I would read a book and then print out a worksheet for them to work on. I did not know how ... Read More about 5 Ways The Arts Impact School Counseling

Arts Integration has been around for a while, but somehow it still seems a bit overwhelming to use in school counseling classroom lessons. As counselors, we may be creative and love doing art  projects,  but  we are not experts in visual arts, drama, dance, or music. This causes our lessons to contain little more than drawing and coloring  activities with a splash of playdough ... Read More about Four Visual Artists to Start Using for Easy Arts Integration and SEL School Counseling Lessons