5 Extended School Year (ESY) Special Ed Activities

As the school year comes to a close, it’s time to start thinking about extended school year (ESY) activities for your special education students. ESY is a program designed to help students with disabilities maintain the skills they have learned during the school year and to prevent regression over the summer. ESY can be a fun and engaging way for students to continue learning while enjoying the summer months.

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Using ESY To Build A Successful Student Business

Having a student business has SO MANY benefits.  Depending on what your product or service is, you have the opportunity to practice independence, money math, cooking, responsibility, and so much more!  In this series, various guest bloggers (teachers & special educators) will share their tried and true experience of starting and running a student business for special education students.  Hopefully these posts will give you some great ideas or inspire you to start a classroom business of your own to teach students valuable vocational & life skills!

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The Best Data with Google Forms for IEP Behavior Plans

Behavior intervention plans (BIPs) are essential when teaching students with challenging behaviors. Developing a BIP can provide guidance on how staff can consistently address problematic behavior. You can also identify triggers, and implement proactive and reinforcement based strategies to decrease these behaviors. That is why you need to take data with Google Forms.

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