by Kristie Pretti-Frontczack | Nov 4, 2021 | Behavior, Blog, Inclusion
You are a teacher because you are passionate about education and children. Sometimes, however, you will have students with behaviors that challenge you. Although it is seductive to look for quick fixes like behavior charts or using rewards and punishments. Such...
by Kristie Pretti-Frontczack | Sep 19, 2021 | Blog
Ever find yourself using the precious time you have…admiring the problem and never getting to a solution? Find yourself facing the same problems over and over? For example: We don’t have enough time to co-plan. Others don’t see the importance of inclusion. I spend all...
by Kristie Pretti-Frontczack | Nov 24, 2020 | Blog, Co-teaching
Oftentimes, to create an inclusive classroom we have to be thinking outside the box, or outside of a lot of boxes, so we are sure to include ALL learners. Now with a lot of teaching being done in virtual classrooms, it is even more important to be thinking about how...
by Kristie Pretti-Frontczack | Sep 20, 2020 | Blog
So, in March 2020, I was standing on a stage with a microphone in hand teaching a ballroom full of school administrators in New Hampshire about how to create more inclusive schools. When we took a break for lunch, several people came up and apologized for being...
by Julie Causton | Sep 26, 2019 | Blog, Co-teaching, Co-teaching, Inclusion, paraprofessionals
This is the final installment of our September Self-Care blog series, in which we are encouraging educators to practice self-care for the purpose of a thriving inclusive classroom. Part 1 discussed how we can fill our own cup to fill others’, part 2 shared the...
by Julie Causton | Sep 12, 2019 | Blog, Co-teaching, Inclusion, paraprofessionals, Website
This is the second part in a series of blogs devoted to self-care for educators in the context of facilitating a thriving inclusive classroom. If you haven’t read part 1, you can do so here. As a review, in the first blog we talked about how filling one’s “cup”...
