Well, we have just about made it through another school year. I have 3 half days to go and I'm sure they are going to fly by. Next Thu...

  Is everyone enjoying their Easter break? I am halfway through mine and really really enjoying the time off!  I got an email last we...

Last week I had a new instructional assistant start in my classroom. Since I run my room completely different than 95% of the other classe...

I wanted to share with you something pretty cool that's been going on in our program for the last few years. Cal State University is a...

Here is another great activity I heard about at the teacher in-service I attended last month. Lego therapy! Here is an excerpt from anothe...

I haven't done any real cooking with the kids due to the new rules laid out for us at the beginning of this year. Last week during a c...

We do some sort of money lesson each week, and they can get so mundane at times.  Now that we are 3/4 of the way through the year I fin...

I have a student in my class who lies. She comes up with the most amazing stories. I am not sure if they are memories from her past, things ...

Because of the four extra classrooms that moved over to our campus this year and the lack of space to feed 175 kids all at the same time, ...

Friday my school had a teacher in-service day. We were fortunate to have a woman come in and talk to us from CAPTAIN  - California Autism Pr...

Everyone in my class is always on the lookout for "free" resources we can use in our room. Tuesday, one of my support staff brou...

I finished the unit on restaurant skills and turned it in yesterday to my boss!! Along with each of these sections: Restaurants, Paying Yo...

This week we will be preparing for Martin Luther King Day! So far I have a little activity planned for every day that we will work on ...

I take every opportunity I have to send my kids on social errands . Sometimes I really need to get something somewhere or something brough...

Here it is!!! All the amazing Christmas cards we received from our new friends! The kids had a great time doing this exchange and we had so...

Last Friday, my co-workers and I hosted a Christmas dance for our program. Since we don't have a building large enough to hold all of ...

After posting last week on all the worksheets I use for my telephone skills and role playing, I searched both on my home computer and at sch...

Hope everyone is having a fun relaxing weekend. Only 5 more work days left until Christmas break! Actually, 3 of those day I will get off ...

When I first started teaching it was for a small program funded through our local high school district and the Departments of Rehabilita...

Today we finished up the second of three Christmas crafts we will be sending home this year. These straw hats have been sitting in my craf...

I wanted to share this very powerful poem I found last week. Breaks my heart. You can find the post here  Teaching Learners With Multiple ...

I wanted to give you a visual of the "Round Table" I use for the majority of the lessons I teach. On this particular day we were...