Classroom-Based Intervention

4/25/20 Are you a: Special educator SLP Teacher of English Language Learners Teacher of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students? Is your school district is using EL Education as their ELA curriculum? Do your students need additional support in phonological awareness? This resource is for you! It is based on one of the trade books […]

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Walking in the Hall with a Student

Do you go to your student’s classroom to get him/her and walk back to your room and then walk the student back to his/her classroom?  This can be valuable time for assessing, bonding, and learning!  Picture having a conversation with the student in a noisy hall.  Walking side by side naturally minimizes the visual cues […]

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Heading to SC AG Bell!

I will be exhibiting in Columbia tomorrow.  Please stop by my table if you  are there. Take me to TeachersPayTeachers!     Take me to iTunes!

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Another Use for Word Wheel

Do you have the app Word Wheel?  It is simply a roulette wheel on which you can enter an infinite number of word lists.  This past week I thought of a new list.  I have a student who is new to receiving H.I. services and is embarrassed by her hearing aids and DM/FM system.  She […]

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How to Save Money on TPT

Tomorrow (11/26/18) and Tuesday Rule the School will be participating in TeachersPayTeachers sitewide sale.  Everything in the store will be 20% off.  At checkout, don’t forget to apply TPT’s Promo code from the top of the page for an additional 5% off. Here are some helpful hints on saving money on TPT.  

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Money -saving 10th Anniversary Special

April 22, 2018   Celebrating our 10th Anniversary                with special pricing       from 4/22/18 through 4/29/18!  $10 in TeachersPayTeachers $10 in  iTunes  

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Follow-up to post “From the Beginning (or not)”

April 6, 2018 Earlier this year I posted about a new referral that I received, a kindergartner who had not been amplified before January, 2018.  I explained the testing that would be done.  I want to pick up there and broadly describe strengths and weaknesses and what interventions the IEP team agreed on. Overall the […]

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Ten Year Anniversary

March 18, 2018   It is hard for me to believe but it was 10 years ago that I created my first game and started my company Rule the School.  How did that happen you ask?  In 2002 I started a new job as an Itinerant Teacher in a large public school district’s Deaf and […]

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The Dot by Peter Reynolds

9/5/16 Have you read this great book with any of your students?  Many years ago I observed that some of my students had very negative self-talk.  Last week a teacher of one of my 4th graders told me the student said to him “I am the dumbest kid in the 4th grade”.  This breaks my […]

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