Kindergarten Operations & Algebraic Thinking I don't know about you, but when I started teaching writing IEP goals for math was hard. Then I found out I needed to align them to standards. What did that even mean?! If my students were meeting grade level standards they wouldn't need IEP goals. That's when I started doing a lot of digging into what everything meant and I started to ... Read More about 5 IEP Goals for Math (K.OA)

When I started using digital data sheets, I needed a quick and easy way for myself and paraprofessionals in my classroom to find the sheets. I knew digital data was going to be a game changer in my classroom. I also knew that if finding the data sheets was difficult, we were less likely to get data on our sheets. That's when I came up with the digital data hack of using a Google Doc as a quick ... Read More about Digital Data Hack: Creating a Quick Page

**This post about digital devices for data collection in the Special Education classroom contains affiliate links.** I shared about how I implemented digital data in my classroom in this post. Implementing this system really helped change our data collection games in our classroom, but in order to do that, I needed to make sure all staff had access to devices to enter that data. I found the ... Read More about 3 Ways to Get Devices for Digital Data Collection

Once you've conducted your preference assessment, it's time to rank those reinforcers! Creating a reinforcer hierarchy is going to give you a quick look at which reinforcers your students like and how much they like them. Why is this information important? I find that using reinforcers from different parts of the hierarchy is appropriate for different times of the day or activities. Let's say ... Read More about How to Create a Reinforcer Hierarchy