Special education (page 7)
Supports for communication, behavior, motor skills, thinking and daily living.
- 20 classroom management strategies, grouped by the evidence behind themIdea
Twenty practical classroom management strategies, grouped under the five recommendations of the What Works Clearinghouse behavior guide, with the evidence rating for each and what to do tomorrow.
- Homework link makerTool
Paste a list and get a six-letter code: children answer at home and you see each score by the pen name Peabody gave them. Free, no real names.
- Getting a room's attention as a substituteGuide
How a substitute gets a class's attention without knowing its signal: asking the class, signals that work in any room, practicing once, and what to do when a signal fails.
- Feelings wheelTool
A feelings wheel for morning meeting and SEL. Spin a feeling, then name it, act it out or talk about a time you felt it. Twelve emotions, big text, no sign-in.
- The last ten minutes as a substituteGuide
How a substitute ends the day well: an early tidy, a quiet finish, work collected in labeled piles, a careful dismissal, and the note to the teacher before you go.
- Feelings check-in for kidsTool
A child taps the face that is like them and breathes with a growing bubble if they want to. No typing, nothing leaves the device, and it says to tell a grown-up they trust.
Checked 2026-11-07
- Morning meeting calendar boardTool
Today's date, a weather picker, days of school, a counting-on strip and class jobs on one screen for morning meeting. Free, no sign-in.
- 42 five-minute fillers and silent activities for subs, sorted by what the room allowsIdea
Forty-two no-prep fillers and silent activities for subs and teachers, sorted by constraint: silent, no materials, whole class, seated, and lining up.
- Calm-down breathing for the boardTool
One big silent bubble for the whole class: it grows as everyone breathes in and shrinks as they breathe out. Three patterns, then a calm brain break.
Checked 2026-11-07
- Screen-time timer for familiesTool
Pick the minutes and a picture, then a friendly ring counts down with a heads-up near the end and one soft chime. It only counts: nothing is blocked or watched.
Checked 2026-11-07
- 10 attention signals that work in any roomIdea
Ten attention signals a substitute can teach in the first five minutes and use all day: clap-backs, call-and-response lines, countdowns and quiet signals for any room.
- Solving a word problem anchor chartPrintable
A free math problem solving anchor chart: four steps for any word problem, from reading it twice to checking the answer.
- Feelings theme for preschool: the week, plannedPage
A feelings theme week for twos to fours: circle time, 4 open books, a craft, “Little Miss Muffet” with its words, a snack and the letter F. Free to print.
Checked 2026-10-30
- Chore and routine charts for kidsPrintable
Printable helper charts, bedtime routines, First / Then boards and picture schedules with pictures, from our parent site. Free, nothing sent.
Checked 2026-11-07
- Picture word sheets for English learnersTool
Free printable practice for English learners: match pictures to words, trace and copy, or fill in sentences from a word bank, with Spanish beside the English if you like.
Checked 2026-11-08
- Sentence frame cards for English learnersPrintable
Printable sentence frames for describing, comparing, asking, giving an opinion, explaining, sequencing, predicting and retelling, at three levels from starting to expanding.
Checked 2026-11-08
- School phrase cards in English and SpanishPrintable
Printable cards of 24 things a new student needs to say at school, in English with the Spanish beneath, for the first weeks in a new classroom.
Checked 2026-11-08
- High school sub plans: a world languagePage
A world language sub plan for a sub who doesn't speak the language: the class's own words and book lead, with a backup and what never to do. Free.
Checked 2026-10-31
- If-Then Cards: an unplugged coding lessonPrintable
What should happen when something happens? A free unplugged lesson for K to 2nd, about 20 minutes, with a printable.
Checked 2026-11-06
- 14 classroom management moves for a substituteIdea
Fourteen calm classroom management moves for substitute teachers: how to get students to listen, handle disruptions privately, and regain control of a class without yelling.
- Parent email draftTool
Say what an email home is for and get a clear, kind draft with [Student] and [Parent] left for you to fill in, so no name is sent anywhere. An AI draft to check.
- Talk topics wheelTool
A random topic wheel with thirty light topics for one-minute talks, morning meeting and partner chats. Spin, think for ten seconds, and talk. Free and fair.
- IEP goal helper: draft SMART goal wordingsMaker
Pick an area, a grade and a skill and get five draft goal wordings with condition, behavior, criterion, timeline and how to measure. A drafting aid for the IEP team, with no names and no AI.
Checked 2026-11-07
- Parts of speech wheelTool
A parts of speech spinner: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction and interjection, each with a hidden example. Spin, name one, check it.