School sensory spaces have become a positive way to support students socially and emotionally, but creating them can be overwhelming, and sometimes expensive. In the past few years, I have researched and created sensory spaces on all kinds of budgets. The outcomes of the impact that each budgeted sensory space provided even surprised me. Here are three spaces I created and what they provided. ... Read More about 3 Types Of Amazing School Sensory Spaces For All Budgets…part 1

Recently, I wrote post about 5 awesome books about perseverance, but I wanted to look into books that were based on real people, in this case, amazing women! I did some research, read a lot of books, and narrowed it down to the 3 books I would start with... the perfect amount to dive in, but not be overwhelming. 3 Awesome Children's Stories About Women Who Persevered The Girl Who Thought ... Read More about 3 Awesome Children’s Books About Women Who Persevered

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