Life skills, not just academics, support school readiness and success! Children knowing how to be part of a group and how to advocate for their needs leads to success beyond ABC and 123.
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The Yellow Ladybugs conference was an extraordinary opportunity to learn about nurturing, empowering, and affirming autistic girls and gender-diverse youth! Here are some of my key learnings:
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Inclusion is about understanding and belonging, and respecting and protecting LGBTQ families and gender-expansive children are inclusion in action.
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Teachers deserve to be appreciated every day in every way! Get ideas that come from the heart and make an impact for your teachers.
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One of my little learner was so excited about chocolate-covered strawberries that she learned to use her walker at the grocery store to get to them! Her family jokes that I invented “retail therapy.”
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Transitions can be tricky! If you feel like you are rushing, nagging, or negotiating, this blog is for you! Here are my top 10 tips for transitions and how to put them into action.
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Halloween can be delicious fun, and it can also be overwhelming and inaccessible. Every aspect of Halloween, from costumes to decorations to trick or treating items and activities, can be accessible for ALL!
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Visual schedules help children know what to expect and see what success looks like. Seeing each step of the process in sequence helps children plan and take appropriate action.
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Compassionate curiosity is the guiding principle of Learn Play Grow, and the rose meditation is one of my favorite tools for compassionate curiosity and reflection.
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Happy Disability Pride Month! Disability is not a bad word, and ALL abilities are worthy of dignity and celebration!
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The questions we ask shape how children prioritize information. Certain kinds of questions, especially "why" questions, help children see a bigger picture and learn advanced and abstract concepts.
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Traveling with children is an adventure, and you can’t check the kids! Here are some insights from science and parenting journalist Melinda Wenner Moyer and strategies from the Uniquely Human podcast to support safe and fun travel for children and families of all neurotypes.
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Let’s reframe our understanding of Autism by learning from Autistic people and go beyond awareness and acceptance to action as an ally supporting Autistic people as they define it.
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Passover and Easter are full of rituals, festivities, and food. Bring tradition alive, and create your own, with these resources to make your seder, egg hunt, and holiday celebrations more inclusive and less stressful.
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My student Gwendolyn recently became a published author! She and I created a book of our own when we learned together for her Bat Mitzvah, the Jewish coming of age ceremony.
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Play is all fun and games, but clean up can be a real monster. Here are 5 ways to make clean up more manageable and fun:
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Messy play is meaningful learning. It stimulates the senses, activates whole body learning, and brings ideas to life in ways no story or worksheet ever could. It's like drivers' ed for little learners' brains!
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Parents and teachers lose their sh*t because they are human. Keeping your sh*t together is not about willpower. It's about self-awareness, self-compassion, and strategic practices. Carla Naumburg's How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t With Your Kids is a hilarious and practical guide for parents and teachers.
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We are so overwhelmed by all that is expected of us as teachers and parents that we struggle see each other’s humanity and our own. We have a common mission, and we value the same things. We may express those values differently, though we are often more aligned than we think.
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Is your child in charge? Does everything seem like a battle? As your children's and students' gentle leader, you have the right and responsibility to set loving limits to bring back joy and jumpstart learning!
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