Are you fresh out of college and just accepted your first job teaching life skills as a special education teacher at the high school or transition level? Or, was your department chair so impressed with your skills that they want you to bless the students in the functional foundations classroom with ...

Our next topic in the Consumer Math Blog Series is about how to teach Rent. Read more about why and how you can teach Rent using my Rent Lesson Unit (click here to get your copy).

Hey, special education teachers, curious how to teach Tipping to your students with special needs?  Read more about why and how you can teach how to Tip to special education students using my Tip Lesson Unit (click here to get your copy).

Purpose of Teaching How to Tip

Showing the workers in th...

I had a morning routine (that didn't include the Question of the Day for students) that I followed with my class and it’s so predictable that my support staff could run it without me there. Here is what it looks like this-

• “Alexa, start my day” (Yes, we have an Alexa in our classroom. It’s a...

I completed the Basic Skills Assessment (read my blog post about that resource) this past August with my students and after reviewing the results, I realized that my students were weak in executing basic money math and functional math skills. Many struggled with reading an analog clock, identifying ...

I have never been to an IEP meeting with an unlimited amount of time and I’ve been to over 100. IEP meetings are designed to create a legal document, so they are incredibly important for the student, but they often have time limits. Unfortunately, this doesn’t lend itself to organic conversation, ma...