By this time of year, classroom organization may have taken a back seat to being able to keep your head above the water on the daily, back-to-school madness, and your subconscious seems to know that the beautifully lines up school supplies and immaculate decorated classroom is no longer in sight… But have no fear!

I belong to many different teacher groups on facebook. One of the most common posts that appear now, are teachers asking about second jobs. It makes me so sad, when I see all the comments of wonderful teachers, having to work second jobs. When I started to look more into it, teachers are among the highest ranked for having to… Read More

I love making resources for my website that I know I need in my classroom – and use. It’s then great to see that other people around the world need the same resources and download/purchase these off me to use with their students in their own classrooms. However, recently I’ve had an influx of requests for different resources and I’m… Read More

It’s that time of year when I see so many wonderful teachers find out that their contract isn’t being renewed. I can’t imagine the feeling of the worry leading up to this moment for you all. To many of us, teaching is the thing that we want to do the most, to have this taken away must be devastating. Recently,… Read More

I’ve been wanting to write this post for a couple of days now, but for I’ve been lost for words. I was notified this past week that I had been voted in the Top 10 UK Autism Blogs/Websites! I’m number 1 on the website and I just can’t thank you all enough.

In this blog post today I’m sharing 5 ways to improve team work in the classroom. Team work is important in every classroom. But as someone who has experience in working both general ed and special ed.. I can promise that it is even more important to have good team work in special education classrooms. I think we all realize… Read More

I was at a conference recently when I was asked, “How do I compliment my students?” She was a new teacher and had just started teaching special education. Her students weren’t fans of verbal compliments and didn’t like to be made the center of attention. So she was finding it difficult for ways to compliment them that they appreciated. We… Read More

Recently at a conference I was asked “Should teachers shop on Teachers Pay Teachers?” It was a genuine question from a newly qualified teacher who was feeling a little bit lost in all of the work that was about to come her way. We ended up sitting down and having a good long chat about all of the things I… Read More

Today I’m sharing about my super popular TpT seller planner. If you’re a seller on TeachersPayTeachers then you are going to LOVE this planner! Do you struggle to stay organized and motivated throughout the school year with everything else you have going on? Are you ready to take the next step, knuckle down and take this TpT hobby to the… Read More