SPED SPEAK
February 2015
New Process for Software, Hardware and App Requests:
New forms and a slightly different process are being implemented for making SpEd software and hardware requests. You can find forms in the Technology Resources Section of Blackboard under the "AT Request" tab on the left side. If the request is for an individual student, start with the SETT Framework form in the AT Section of the Special Education section of Blackboard and contact Kim Leaf. If the request is for hardware or software for several of your students, start with the form form indicated in this link. Contact Kim Leaf with any questions.
ESY is Coming Soon!
Plans and preparation are underway for this year's ESY program. Come enjoy the fun! If you are interested in working ESY this summer, please contact your coordinator and complete the ESY Service Provider Letter by February 27th.
February is also the time to complete revision paperwork for any student who was previously “to be determined” and is now eligible for ESY. Revision paperwork can be completed during Parent/Teacher conferences. Parent/Teachers conferences are also an opportune time to inform parents of ESY dates and location.
Where: Belmont Elementary
Dates: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
June 9, 10, 11,
17, 18, 19
24, 25, 26
July 8, 9, 10
15, 16, 17
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Teacher to Parents: About THAT kid...
Please take the time to read this prior to parent teacher conferences. Our hope is that it will provide insight into the many worries our parents (and teachers) face each day and also remind you of the powerful role you play in supporting our students, families and staff. Thank you for all that you do!
Social/Emotional/Behavioral Resources:
At our last Quartlerly Resource Teacher Meeting, teachers had the opportunity to hear about and explore several materials that can be used to support students with social/emotional and behavioral needs. We have included the resources below. Please contact your coordinator and/or Sara Dilday if you have questions or would like more information about a particular resource.
Model Me Kids:
Age: 2-17
Model Me Kids® videos demonstrate social skills by modeling peer behavior at school, on a playdate, at a birthday party, on the playground, at a library, at the dentist, restaurant, and more. Designed as a teaching tool for children, adolescents, and teenagers with Autism, Asperger Syndrome, and developmental delays, the videos are used by teachers, parents, and therapists. Real children model each skill.
Social Behavior Mapping: Connecting Behavior, Emotions and Consequences Across the Day
Author: Michele Garcia Winner
Age: 3-12th grade
Social Behavior Mapping is a strategy to teach individuals about the specific relationship between behaviors, others' perspectives, others' actions (consequences) and the student's own emotions about those around him or her. SBM is a visual tool that displays these abstract concepts through a flow chart.
Strong Start: Grades K-2
Strong Kids: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Strong Teens: Grades 9-12
http://strongkids.uoregon.edu/strongstart.html
Author: Kenneth W. Merrell, Danielle M. Parisi, Sara A. Whitcomb
Strong Start:
The Strong Start curriculum is a brief, practical program designed for promoting social and emotional learning of young children.
Strong Kids:
The Strong Kids programs are brief and practical social-emotional learning curricula that were designed for the purpose of teaching social and emotional skills, promoting resilience, strengthening assets, and increasing coping skills of children and early adolescents.
Strong Teens:
The Strong Teens curriculum social-emotional learning program designed for teaching social and emotional skills, promoting resilience, strengthening assets, and increasing coping skills of high school students, those in grades 9-12, or approximately ages 14-18.
Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School
Author: Michele Hensley, Jo C. Dillon, Denise Pratt, Jacqueline Ford, Ray Burke
Grades: K-12
Curriculum of lesson plans for teachers to use with students learning 28 social skills. Activities that include discussion, role plays, reading, and journaling are incorporated.
More Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School
Author: Midge Odermann Mougey, Jo C. Dillon, Denise Pratt
Grades: 3-12
35 additional lessons that focus on grades 3-12
CHAMPS: A Proactive and Positive Approach to Classroom Management
Author: Randy Sprick
Grades: Pre-K thru 12
CHAMPS assists classroom teachers in designing (or fine tune) a proactive and positive classroom management plan that will overtly teach students how to behave responsibly.
Skillstreaming:
· Early Childhood
· Elementary
· Adolescent
Author: Ellen McGinnis
Grades: Pre-K thur middle School/high School
Skillstreaming employs a four-part training approach—modeling, role-playing, performance feedback, and generalization—to teach essential prosocial skills to children and adolescents.
Incredible 5-Point Scale:
Author: Kari Dunn Buron and Mitzi Curtis
Grades: Pre-K thru middle school
The goal of the scale is to teach social and emotional information to students who struggle with emotion regulation skills.
A 5 Is Against the Law! Social Boundaries: Straight Up! An honest guide for teens and young adults.
Author: Kari Dunn Buron
Grades: middle/high school
Building on Kari Dunn Buron s popular The Incredible 5-Point Scale, this book takes a narrower look at challenging behavior with a particular focus on behaviors that can spell trouble for adolescents and young adults who have difficulty understanding and maintaining social boundaries. Using a direct and simple style with lots of examples and hands-on activities, A 5 Is Against the Law! speaks directly to adolescents and young adults. A section of the book is devoted to how to cope with anxiety before it begins to escalate, often leading to impulsive and unacceptable behavior.
Zones of Regulation
A curriculum designed to foster self-regulation and emotional control
Author: Leah M. Kuypers
Grades: Pre-K thru 12
The Zones is a systematic, cognitive behavior approach used to teach self-regulation by categorizing all the different ways we feel and states of alertness we experience into four concrete zones. The Zones curriculum provides strategies to teach students to become more aware of, and independent in controlling their emotions and impulses, managing their sensory needs, and improving their ability to problem solve conflicts.
Superflex Materials:
· Superflex Takes on Glassman and the Team of Unthinkables
· Superflex….A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum
· Superflex takes on Rock Brain and the Team of Unthinkables
· Social Town Citizens Discovery 82 New Unthinkables
· Listed under “books and products” tab
Grades: marketed at 3rd -5th but can be implemented with younger students
A curriculum designed to teach younger (primarily 3rd-5th grade) students how to regulate their behaviors and become stronger social problem solvers.
Incredible Flexible You
· Listed under “books and products” tab
Ages: 4-7years
The Incredible Flexible You is developmental, Social Thinking and social emotional learning curriculum for children ages 4-7. It combines colorful storybooks, detailed lesson guides, parent involvement, and a music CD to teach children with and without social challenges to improve their social-emotional problem solving skills, allowing them to become better social thinkers.
Mrs. Boyd’s Blackboard Site
Courtney has downloaded a comprehensive collection of the resources and materials she uses to implement the Zones of Regulation and Social Thinking strategies in her program. In addition, you will find social stories, powercards and different ideas for positive behavioral supports.
TASN: Autism and Tertiary Behavior Supports
Lending Library
The TASN lending library has a large collection of materials for autism and behavioral supports. Materials can be check out through them. They will provide you with an addressed envelope for the return. You are responsible for the media mail rate for returning the materials. This is a great way to try out a resource before purchasing it.
TASN: Autism and Tertiary Behavior Supports
Classroom Materials Library
The website also houses a wonderful collection of teacher created materials. Teachers have downloaded their materials on the website to share with other teachers for free.
Social Fortune or Social Fate: A Social Thinking Graphic Novel Map for Social Quest Seekers
Authors: Pamela Crooke and Michelle Garcia Winner
Grades: Targeted at 5th grade thru high school
Through this anime-based graphic teaching book, tweens and teens will be inspired to explore how social decision making and problem solving impact their own ability to feel good about themselves, while also exploring how their behaviors (expected and unexpected) impact others.
You Are a Social Detective: Explaining Social Thinking to Kids
Author: Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke
Ages: Pre-K thru 5th grade
We are all Social Detectives when we use our eyes, ears, and brains to figure out what others are planning to do next or are presently doing and what they mean by their words and deeds. This comic book offers different ways that can be reviewed repeatedly with students to teach them how to develop their own social detective skills.
Room 14: A Social Language Program
Author: Carolyn C. Wilson
Ages: elementary
A resource for building social language skills. The program focuses on five skill areas: 1) making and keeping friends; 2) fitting in at school; 3) handling your feelings; 4) using self-control; 5) being responsible.
From Tutor Scripts to Talking Sticks:
100 ways to differentiate instruction in K-12 inclusive classrooms
Author: Paula Kluth and Shelia Danaher
This book is packed full of practical and easy ways to differentiate instruction within the classroom for all students.
Playing It Right!
Social Skills Activities for Parents and Teachers of Yound Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Author: Rachael Bareket
Ages: elementary
This book is full of visual activities to teach and reinforce various social skills. This resource would be a nice supplement to other social skills instruction curriculums.
Second Step
Grades 6th thru 8th
The program teaches empathy and communication, emotion-management and coping skills, and decision making.
- Media-rich lessons
- Individual, partner, and group activities
- Interactive exercises and games
- Skill-practice demonstrations
- Short Lesson Prep Videos
Important Upcoming Dates:
No School Kindergarten & Early Childhood Students. Parent-Teacher Conferences 8:15 a.m.-8:15 p.m.
Students in Grades 1-12 in session. Elem. Parent-Teacher Conferences 4:15-8:15 p.m. & Secondary Parent-Teacher Conferences 3:30-7:30 p.m.
Feb. 12th-NO SCHOOL ALL Students-Parent/Teacher Conferences
Feb. 13th-NO SCHOOL (Buildings Closed)
Feb. 16th-NO SCHOOL (Buildings Closed) Holiday-President's Day
Feb. 17th-Classes Resume
Feb. 27th-Third Quarter Resource Teacher Meeting at District Service Center
- Elementary 8:30-11:30
- Secondary 12:30-3:30
March 12th-End of Third Quarter
