The Resource Room

What are you doing in your reading intervention groups? In this nine part series, I'll be sharing what I do in my resource room.Today's focus is all about reading comprehension!I'll be sharing:What routines can you implement?What goals can you write?How can you progress monitor them quickly?Links Mentioned:Free Week of Reading Intervention

What are you doing in your reading intervention groups? In this nine part series, I'll be sharing what I do in my resource room.Today's focus is all about !I'll be sharing:What routines can you implement?What goals can you write?How can you progress monitor them quickly?Links Mentioned:Free Week of Reading Intervention

What are you doing in your reading intervention groups? In this nine part series, I'll be sharing what I do in my resource room.Today's focus is all about decoding!I'll be sharing:What routines can you implement?What goals can you write?How can you progress monitor them quickly?Links Mentioned:Free Week of Reading Intervention

What are you doing in your reading intervention groups? In this nine part series, I'll be sharing what I do in my resource room.Today's focus is all about sight words!I'll be sharing:What routines can you implement?What goals can you write?How can you progress monitor them quickly?Links Mentioned:Free Week of Reading Intervention

Whitney serves as the Special Education & Response to Intervention Coordinator in her school district. She uses TikTok and Instagram to share strategies, resources and instructional content with her followers.Links Mentioned: Token BoardsWaitlist for Behavior CoursePreference AssessmentFind Abby Online:TeachersPayTeachersInstagramTikTokFacebookWebsite

Whitney serves as the Special Education & Response to Intervention Coordinator in her school district. She uses TikTok and Instagram to share strategies, resources and instructional content with her followers.Find Whitney Online: TikTokInstagramTeachersPayTeachers

Jenn is the owner and author of Teach Love Autism. She is a teacher with 15 years of experience in regular, alternative, and special education. During her time in the classroom, she has taught almost every grade from Pre-K to 12th grade in many different subject areas with many different groups of children. She fell in love with working with students with disabilities and has most recently found herself teaching students with autism. Her students inspire her every day and inspired her to start this website, blog, and store to help other teachers and make their classrooms a place where learning, independence, and overall growth are a priority.Links Mentioned: Behavior Communication LogsTeach Love Autism Community Facebook GroupFind Teach Love Autism Online: FacebookInstagramWebsiteTeachersPayTeachers

What are you doing in your math intervention groups? In this four part series, I'll be sharing what I do in my resource room.Today's focus is all about critical skills to incorporate in just five minutes of your small group time!I'll be sharing:A few critical skills that are important for your students to masterWHY these critical skills are importantLinks Mentioned:Free Week of Math Intervention

What are you doing in your math intervention groups? In this four part series, I'll be sharing what I do in my resource room.Today's focus is all about word problems!I'll be sharing:How can you make word problems fun and hands on?How much time should you spend on word problems every day?How can you progress monitor IEP goals for word problems?Links Mentioned:Free Week of Math Intervention

What are you doing in your math intervention groups? In this four part series, I'll be sharing what I do in my resource room.Today's focus is all about math facts!I'll be sharing:Why you should practice math facts every day?Should you be doing timed tests?How do you set small goals?How much time do I spend on math facts?How can you progress monitor math fact IEP goals?Links Mentioned:Free Week of Math Intervention

What are you doing in your math intervention groups? In this four part series, I'll be sharing what I do in my resource room. Today's focus is all about computation! I'll be sharing: How can you make computation fun? How can you progress monitor? How much time I spend of my thirty minute group?Links Mentioned: Free Week of Math InterventionMath Bingo Freebie

Alison Ryan, M.Ed, has been working in schools since 2005 as a classroom teacher, reading interventionist, reading specialist, and Director of Curriculum & Instruction. She is trained in the Orton-Gillingham method, has extensive experience working with struggling readers, and has a master’s degree in literacy leadership.Links Mentioned: Phonics Routines Blog PostPhonics Diagnostic AssessmentFind Alison Online: WebsiteFacebookInstagramTeachersPayTeachers

Lindsay Sauer is a passionate first grade teacher. She shares resources, tips, and tricks she's learned over the years! She's a working mom who has changed everything after reentering the classroom and completely revamping everything about my practice.She's also a published author. After preparing a guide to help her student teacher, she realized that so many teachers needed the questions and reminders for good classroom management. Many revisions later, she's sharing her big THREE for back to school. Grab Lindsay's book here! Find Lindsay online: WebsiteFacebookInstagramTeachersPayTeachers

Stephanie is the author behind Mrs. D’s Corner. She’s your go-to-girl for inspiration on everything elementary special education. Her passion is making grade-level content functional, engaging, and meaningful for all students, and to make learning fun and easy by providing tried and true lessons and activities that are implementation ready, differentiation provided.She provides tips, tricks, and hacks that actually work in the special education classroom setting. And she’s your biggest advocate when it comes to taking care of yourself (because you are important too!).For as long as she can remember, she has always wanted to be a teacher. You know, the taking extra worksheets at school to come home and teach my [invisible] students kind-of-always-wanted-to-be-a-teacher.After 9+ years in the field, she knows first hand how exhausting teaching can be, yet how absolutely wonderful and life changing it is.Links Mentioned:Intentional IEP MembershipFind Mrs. D’s Corner:WebsiteInstagramFacebookTeacher’s Pay Teachers

Brandie is a behavior consultant, teacher mentor, and coach. She mentors new teachers and provides online Professional Development. She believes that teaching is hard, but you don’t have to do it alone!Links Mentioned:IEPs UntangledBite Size BehaviorFind Brandie Online:WebsiteFacebookInstagram

Megan Ocken-Helmen is a Pediatric Neuropsychologist and the owner of Developmental Discoveries. She believes in balancing clinical expertise and research-based interventions with connection and a sense of humor. She also believes in respecting each child as a whole human who can be included in the evaluation process. Collaborating with parents to better understand their child and seeing ‘the lightbulb go on’ is a rewarding experience. She loves that her job allows her to hyperfocus on my interests and also be silly while getting to know and supporting the neatest kids. Outside of work, she hears a lot about Pokémon cards and iPad games from her two kids. She loves sleep, the color magenta, travel, and a good Netflix documentary binge.Find Megan Online:WebsiteFacebookInstagramMegan's Services

I love me some Chick-fil-A, and my impatient self can even go through their drive thru no matter how long that line is. Our progress monitoring should be the same. Using this analogy, I compare progress monitoring to the Chick-fil-A drive thru to help us realize how important a good system is for successful and easy progress monitoring.

Does writing written expression goals overwhelm you? Maybe because there are so many components and it's easy to get lost. In this episode, I'll be breaking apart all things written expression.

Do you ever wonder where to start with reading comprehension goals? They are complex and have many layers. In this episode, I'm breaking down reading comprehension to make writing and defining those goals a little easier!

Progress monitoring can be extremely overwhelming for special education teachers. And with good reason, honestly. It is important for instruction and provides accountability to parents, teachers, and administration.However, that does't mean that it needs to be hard, complicated, or time consuming. In this episode, I'm sharing the mistakes that I have made throughout the year that have made progress monitoring more painful than it should be.I also share that I have a webinar for special educations called 3 Things You Can Do NOW to Make Progress Monitoring Easier All Year. If you want to watch the replay, you can sign up here!

Today, I'm sharing an interview I did with two special education teachers who are using my special education reading intervention in their resource rooms.I love hearing ideas for implementing it that might just be different from the way that I typically share. And these girls have a LOT of great ideas and insights! ❤️You can download the free week of intervention that these sweet ladies were talking with me about here: https://quiet-moon-3462.ck.page/e77fd2594b

This summer, as I've been sharing my webinars, I keep seeing special education teachers asking the same questions over and over. I saw it so much that I decided to veer off of my pre-planned schedule to record a few episodes about the mistakes that we are making as well as some things that we can do differently. In this episode, I mention my Reading and Math webinars that can be watched on demand. Below, you'll find the links, so you can work to develop some really great routines for your students.9 Reading Routines for the Resource Room4 Math Routines for the Resource Room

Dawn Ellis has been teaching for over 12 years in elementary and preschool special education and has an Educational Specialist degree in Special Education. Dawn has also a National Board Certified Teacher in the area of Exceptional Needs Specialist. She has worked with inclusion, resource, severe/profound, and autism classrooms throughout the years. She has been a state finalist for Teacher of the Year, as well as other awards within the district and state. One of her most noted accomplishments is starting a school garden and coffee cart that was accessible and maintained by our students in the self-contained special education classroom. When she's not teaching, she is a mom, an avid reader, and also a podcaster. She has a podcast specifically designed for special education teachers, Be The Exception, to gain weekly tips to use in their classrooms. She also maintains a blog, sticker shop, TPT store, and a social media presence as Cultivating Exceptional MInds where she creates and shares time-saving strategies and resources for special education teachers. Links Mentioned: Escape RoomsBlog Post: Board GamesBlog Post: ESYBlog Post: Take Your Sick DaysFind Cultivating Exceptional Minds Online:WebsitePodcastInstagramTikTokEtsyTeacher's Pay Teachers

Sarah Paul is a reading interventionalist for kindergarten through third grade. Prior to that, she taught first grade. She has a blog called Sarah's Teaching Snippets that she started in 2010. She started studying dyslexia about ten years ago, which began her journey with the science of reading. She has received OG training through the Dyslexia Training Institute and additional training through PDX Reading Specialist. Links Mentioned: Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally ShaywitzExplicit Instruction by Anita ArcherSpeech to Print Louisa MoatesEquipped for Reading Success by David KilpatrickSpeldsa.orgAssessmentsFind Sarah's Teaching Snippets Online:WebsiteFacebookInstagramTeacher's Pay Teachers

Caitlin is a certified special education teacher and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. She works full time as a behaviorist for a public school district. In addition, she teaches part time for Rutgers University (Graduate School of Education) and manages a successful Teachers Pay Teachers store (Beltrans Behavior Basics).Find Beltran's Behavior Basics:InstagramTeachersPayTeachers

Meredith Mitchell is a special education teacher with over 20 years of experience. In 2021, she was named teacher of the year for the state of Alabama for District III.Meredith has her own special education consulting business called Meredith Mitchell’s Methods. She speaks at conferences all over the south east educating other special educators on how to write IEPs that are manageable, measurable, and meaningful. She is also a Master IEP Coach.When she not teaching, she spends time with her family. Meredith is married and has three children. She stays busy going to soccer games, tumbling practice, girl scout meetings, and taekwondo.Links Mentioned:IEP Essentials ToolkitFind BIAS Behavioral Online:WebsiteFacebookInstagramOverbooked

Brittany Blackwell, M.Ed. is an award-winning special educator and self-care strategist from South Carolina with over ten years of experience working with elementary and middle school classrooms. Brittany is no stranger to teacher burnout and has a passion for empowering teachers, parents, and students to prioritize self-care and mental health. Brittany's digital approach to self-care through digital planning, vision boards, and strategies has reached the homes of thousands of educators across the world. Also known as "MsPrincessTeach" on Tiktok, Brittany's social media following grew through her fast-paced, lighthearted tutorials and humorous real life experiences. Brittany helps teachers create their own Individualized Self-Care Plan by providing sustainable strategies, handcrafted products, and digital resources to reduce stress, automate the mundane tasks of teaching, and prevent overall teacher burnout. Her approach gives support so that educators can maximize fulfillment and effectiveness in their personal and professional lives.Links Mentioned:The Individualized EduCare ProgramUntamedTiny HabitsThe Resilient Teacher PodcastFind Teaching Mind Body and Soul: WebsiteFacebookInstagramTikTok

Tiffaney is a Special Education teacher and single mother who finally decided to go for her dreams of designing shirts and becoming a Special education teacher.Links Mentioned:Happy MailFind De'avionBlu Innovations:WebsiteInstagram

Dana Howell is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and the face behind BIAS Behavioral. She has over 15 years of experience in the field of special education. Her mission is to help parents and school professionals learn evidence-based strategies which they can use to safely manage challenging behavior. She breaks down tough behavioral concepts into visually engaging, actionable steps that anyone can use.Links Mentioned: Smarty SymbolsVisual Supports on TpTFind BIAS Behavioral Online: WebsiteFacebookInstagramTeacher's Pay Teachers

Emily Norris is an Alabama native passionate about inclusive education for all! She is currently a K-3 resource special education teacher servicing children with Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Specific Learning Disabilities. Emily has served on the Teach it Special team as a presenter, won Teacher of the Year for her sweet school for the 2020-2021 school year, and presented multiple times for differing professional development platforms on supporting behaviors in the general education classroom. Emily is married to Tyler and the reside in their happy hometown with their dog Beatrice. Links Mentioned: Lessons and Latte's Progress Monitoring PageAutism Resource Classroom Data SheetGOAT Educators: Trauma InformedTeach It SpecialFind Emily Online: Instagram

Jennifer has held a variety of roles in special education for over 25 years! She entered the classroom every day dedicated to making learning inclusive AND engaging. As much as she loved seeing her students' faces light up, she now feels the EXACT same way mentoring other teachers. Through instructional coaching, mentoring, and content creation, Jennifer is sharing what she’s learned along the way. At Positively Learning Blog, you will find behavior supports grounded in restorative practice, tried and true tips on incorporating fine motor development skills through literacy, literature recommendations to build your classroom community, and that's just a start!In summary, Jennifer stays busy behind the scenes supporting you while you're busy changing lives!Links Mentioned:Swipe File YouTube LinkSpecial Educator's Resource RoomFind Positively Learning Online: WebsiteFacebookInstagramTeacher's Pay Teachers

I could sit and talk about special education all day long. In this surprise, finale episode, I invited back all of this season's guests to talk about several special education topics. Links Mentioned: Amanda's Solid Colored Amazon ShirtsAmanda's Camo Amazon ShirtCassandra's Snow Shoveling Meme

Cassandra is a self contained behavior teacher from Indiana. She's a good friend of mine and is always full of helpful ideas and strategies. She's a full time teacher and mom to a newborn. She's sharing her tips for making data collection easier to save you time!

Stephanie is the author behind Mrs. D’s Corner. She’s your go-to-girl for inspiration on everything elementary special education. Her passion is making grade-level content functional, engaging, and meaningful for all students, and to make learning fun and easy by providing tried and true lessons and activities that are implementation ready, differentiation provided.She provides tips, tricks, and hacks that actually work in the special education classroom setting. And she’s your biggest advocate when it comes to taking care of yourself (because you are important too!).For as long as she can remember, she has always wanted to be a teacher. You know, the taking extra worksheets at school to come home and teach my [invisible] students kind-of-always-wanted-to-be-a-teacher.After 9+ years in the field, she knows first hand how exhausting teaching can be, yet how absolutely wonderful and life changing it is. Links Mentioned: Draft StickersIntentional IEP MembershipWrights Law Find Mrs. D’s Corner:WebsiteInstagramFacebookTeacher’s Pay Teachers

After a debate in The Resource Room FB Group, I thought an episode was needed. What are accommodations? What are modifications? Do you know the difference? Click Here to Read the Blog Post with Freebie Mentioned

Kristy is a resource room teacher in Texarkana! Her school has been experimenting with coteaching this year. She's sharing her experience and relationships with various teachers to help other resource room teachers gather ideas for co-teaching with other general education teachers.

Michelle is a resource room teacher from Arkansas. She is one of the most creative people I’ve met. She loves to create activities for her students to keep them engaged and meet their needs. Links Mentioned:LinktreeWhole Brain Teaching

Lisa Hollady is the creator of Chalkboard Superhero. She grew up in central New York and always knew she wanted to be a special education teacher. After graduating with her Masters in 2008, she has been working with students on the spectrum. She has had an array of different abilities but most of which had ASD. She worked in a self-contained setting in elementary for 8 years. This past year, she took a new position in a different district at the High School level in a 6:1:3 intensive Autism program and has since fallen in love with the program. Designing the curriculum for transitioning students is very different from providing foundational learning in Kindergarten, but it really has been a blessing.At this point in her life, she considers herself an Autism specialist. In 2010, she married my best friend of 10 years, and they have 3 beautiful children. Ava is 6 and Jacob will be 4. They just added to the family and her name is Ryleigh. Jacob has Down Syndrome and is the fire behind her passion as a Special Education Teacher. She truly tries to make all of her resources fit the needs of all children. She has a passion for making resources fun, engaging, and purposeful. She really hates wasting kids' time, as she feels the time spent in school is so very precious. Find Chalkboard Superhero:OnlineInstagramFacebookTeacher’s Pay Teachers Check out Lisa’s Independent Work Systems Masterclass!

Heather is a special education teacher mentor. She helps self-contained special education teachers with individualized and personalized support to make self-assured educational decisions so that you can avoid the stress, overwhelm, and burnout in this field. I believe special education teachers are better together!She has been a special education teacher in Illinois for 8 years! She’s taught in self-contained classroom settings for middle school and high school students. She currently teaches middle school!Her passion is supporting other educators and is what has led her to start a website and blog alongside her Boom Learning store and TeachersPayTeachers store!In her first 4 years of teaching, she felt so alone. The lack of curriculum, administration support, and daily tasks had really worn her down. She turned to social media and found inspiration to continue to grow and learn as an educator.Links Mentioned: The Inner Circle PodcastThose You Can’t Teach Find Full SPED Ahead:WebsiteInstagramFacebookTeacher’s Pay TeachersGet on the Waitlist for the Full Sped Ahead Mentorship!

Whitney works with kindergarten through sixth grade students with special needs in Phoenix, Arizona. She absolutely loves it. Her passion is helping both students and educators through sharing products, resources, and ideas. She enjoy sharing her knowledge while also continuing to learn from others. Whitney uses her experience as a former paraprofessional to help maximize student growth and success through training and utilizing her paraprofessional. Find Rooted in Resource:InstagramFacebookFacebook GroupTeacher’s Pay Teachers

Jennifer Hofferber lives in Oklahoma, but she’s a special education teacher in Kansas since 1995 (yes, you read that right!)In 2007, she was named Special Educator of the Year for the state of Kansas. Then, in 2015, she received the great honor of being named to the Kansas Teacher of the Year Team and got to travel the state visiting schools, talking to legislators, and collaborating with some amazing administrators and educators.She loves teaching children, but she has also realized that teaching teachers is just as important. She loves helping special education teachers have courageous conversations and train their paraprofessionals to help and support students in their classrooms.Links Mentioned: Shifting the MonkeyFind Sped Prep Academy:WebsiteInstagramFacebookPodcastTeacher’s Pay TeachersClick here to join her waitlist for her Paraprofessional Training!

Ashley is the teacher behind Spedtacular Days. She is currently an elementary resource teacher. She previously taught in a middle school self-contained setting for several years in Virginia. She has taught all subjects, including a functional skills class. It is her job to create and adapt curriculum for a variety of needs in my classroom. Differentiating is one of her favorite parts of her job. Seeing one topic come to life in multiple ways makes her heart so happy.When she’s not teaching, she is a wife to her amazing husband, a mom to a little boy and boy/girl twins. Life with 3 littles has become quite an adventure!Ashley prides herself on being able to collaborate with general education teachers and will share exactly what she does in today’s podcast episode.Find Spedtacular Days:OnlineInstagramFacebookTeacher’s Pay Teachers

I’ve been a licensed speech-language pathologist for the last 12 years and have seen it all. I graduated from the University at Buffalo in 2005 and received my masters in 2007 from Adelphi University. Since then, I have worked with children from preschool to high school, in both schools and home-based agencies. I’ve been at my current New York public school district for almost a decade, handling a caseload of 65+ fifth and sixth graders every year.What I’ve found is that both new and veteran SLPs are struggling. Our caseloads are staggering, our resources are thin, and we can’t find enough ways to reach our students. On top of that, we have to juggle everything else: bus duty, paperwork, progress meetings, PD, activities prep, and our own personal lives.Find Speech Time Fun:OnlineInstagramFacebookTeacher’s Pay TeachersPodcast Click here to check out the SLP Conference!

I love to learn from other special education teachers. How about you?! In this season of the podcast, I'll be sharing an interview with a fellow special education teacher each and every week. It is by far the most fun I've had on the podcast so far.If you would like to share a little about yourself and your classroom, you can sign up here!

Are you a naturally organized teacher? Some of us are. Others, not so much. While I can sometimes be scattered, I am usually a pretty organized person. In this episode, I'm sharing all of the things that I do to get my special education caseload organized!

How do you feel about progress monitoring? Do you love it? Do you dread it? For me, I did progress monitoring wrong for a LOOOONNG time. Today, I'm sharing some simple tips for you to implement before and after progress monitoring.

What procedures do you have in place? In this episode, I'm sharing the things that you should explicitly teach your students during the first few days of your small groups.

Would you like to take a peak inside my first week in Special Education? In this episode, I'm outlining exactly what I do with my students. I mention a few things in this episode. You can find the links below!Our Class is a FamilyThe Magical YetInformal Assessments (Quick & Easy to Give!)Back to School Themed Printable Reading Books

Did you just find out about your special education role? Are you a new special education teacher? In this episode, I'm sharing about my back to school to do list.Click here to download the back to school shopping list and to do list! :)

In special education, Back to School Night looks a little different for us! In this episode, I'm sharing what I do to make it a success.DownloadsTwo Truths & a Lie TemplateMeet the Teacher PageConference Cards