I’m crying. I am going to be teaching students with Autism in a self contained class and been looking everywhere for ideas or to even see what teachers do in their class (for self contained and not gen Ed) and I FOUND YOU. I’m so happy. You have no idea how much I appreciate you making this video

Glad to see a video about what is going on in the room rather than focusing on the cute decorations😀

As a future SPED teacher, you inspire me!

“I’m not going to show you the decor and tell you where I bought it.” Me: YES THANK YOU

My professor assigned us this video to watch because schools are not open for observations because of covid and this was really helpful. I learned a lot! I think I am starting to consider being a SPED teacher. Thank you!

As a mom of a special needs child I can attest that teachers are heroes!! With all the therapy, psychiatrist, psychologist and behavioral specialist it is teachers who give me hope in humanity. Supporting our children is supporting the entire family. Also, eventhough inclusion is the goal and most parents fear their kids being separated from their peers- a self-contained classroom has benefited my son tremendously. Observable progress after stalling in general education years before. Teachers like this are gifts to society!

Your classroom is beautiful. I love the simplicity, not being so overwhelmingly cluttered. I’m sure the children appreciate that.

I'm in a master's program for special education and your channel has BY FAR been the most helpful and informative to me! I literally cannot describe how much I appreciate you lol. So helpful, clear, articulate, solid tips and focusing on the real stuff.

I can’t wait until I’m certified ! Although I’m going at a slower rate, I’m getting closer and closer each day.

As a Special Ed. Teacher, I can relate to the amount of effort you have put in to get to such a level. I really wish more educators would understand how hard we have to work for the learners to be comfortable and accommodated. I applaud you

WOW it is so rare for a newbie to go from "desks and chairs" to your level of success and functionality. The field just bleeds personnel. You are a breath of fresh air! So nice not seeing an educator floundering, kicked down, and burned out. You should be an instructional/behavior coach one day!

Omg this intro 😭 you moving through the classroom hahah I love it

OMG. You are what I have been looking for. Was feeling so lost and overwhelmed but you have given me hope and courage to prepare for the beginning of this CRAZY year. Thank you

As a Direct support worker in a day program I truly appreciate you- thank you 😊 for taking the time to make this video

You are awesome and an inspiration!! Thank you so much for sharing all of your strategies and systems set in place, they are wonderful! So happy and lucky to have found your channel!

Thank you! I’ve been SEARCHING for someone who is so specific and explicit about the small amount pieces that make a classroom function. You did a fantastic job of showing everything without going off on a tangent

This is great I needed a visual aide to see classroom behavior management in action. I’m still in school but getting less nervous to teach because of videos like these so thank you for showing your setup. :)

I wish my son had u for his teacher You energy is contagious.

Wow, you are damn good at what you do. I can tell without even seeing the students. Thanks for sharing! This is so motivational for me continuing my career in education!

This was so amazing! I am starting a Pre-K to year 2 classroom and this helped me so much to get some ideas. You seem like such an amazing teacher!

I love your channel and your videos. I’m a gen ed teacher, but special education is near and dear to my heart. I love all the routines and systems you have in place.

You are as good as it gets!!! Wonderful ideas, your kids are so lucky. Thank you for all you do--all the love you put into your work really shows through!!

So wonderful, you allowed new ideas to flow. As a Special Educator in training, thank you.

As a preschool SPED teacher I'm loving these visuals!😍 so happy I found you!

I had not even finished watching this video, and it had already solved many unanswered questions for me! Thank you so much and always remember that you are imparting in the lives of many!

Oh thank you so much!!!!! I just submitted my application for the moderate/severe special education credential today. I love your ideas for classroom behavioral management. I like the idea of having the student practice the correct behavior later in the day without having an argument match with the student. I just subscribed. Thank you once again.

Thank you for being honest. Your room is set up so nicely and functional. Thank you for the great work and your video.

Thank you for sharing your classroom. Everything was so purposeful, making maneuvering around the class simple for the kids and making things easier for you too.

Came across this video as I am fulfilling my observation hours during Covid for my SPED class in college. You are very thorough and organized I love it! I wish I could observe your classroom in real time!

Thank you sharing this! I work with the BIS team in my school and this is such a beautiful set up for your room.

I love how you utilize every part of the classroom for learning. Talk about a universal design! I am totally subscribed now 😊

Struggling during this unprecedented start to the school year..... I have been assisting with substitute teaching in my self-contained classroom (half the week spent as my para position) I am so inspired to utilize so many of your wonderful strategies to make our classroom environment successful. And to incorporate your amazing style into my own classroom when I graduate with my SPED Teaching Degree next year! Thank you for making your videos! So happy to have found your channel and subscribe !!!!

You are inspiring and such an amazing teacher! Your students are so lucky to have you. Thank you for sharing this! 😍

I’m so happy I came across your channel! I’m an intervention specialist for grades K-3 in a self-contained room as well. I’ve been searching for channels that can give me ideas I can use in my classroom, and this is the best one I’ve come across!

I have a special needs child who is non verbal and medical needs.I wish more teachers were as detailed as you are.😊

Thank you for this video! I'm an SLP but I work with toddlers and preschoolers on a 1 on 1 basis and even though I worked as an ABA therapist for years including accompanying some students at school, I have no idea how I would even begin to set a classroom up so working with kids in a group or classroom setting again is so completely different from working with 1 child on a 1 on 1 basis! Thank you for your behavior management in special education videos! Love, Abby

Love it! Thank you so much. I will be starting my first year as a Life Skills teacher and this was very helpful. I'm looking forward to watching your other videos.

We're watching this as apart of my survey of special education teaching class in college and this has been the most helpful video yet!

This is AMAZING. Thank you SO much for going through your classroom step by step. I am going from ESE inclusion to teaching self contained, and have been looking for ideas about how to set things up and your whole channel is such an amazing resource. THANK YOU!!

Love love the practice and unfinished work cubbies! Great ideas. I’ve been a sped para for 8 years, about to graduate from an occupational therapy program

Thank you for sharing! I loved your video and found so many pieces of your classroom extremely helpful. I can't imagine how much work, effort, and thought went into everything. You are an amazing teacher! I love your energy and passion. Keep it up!

I had to watch this video for an assignment for my credentialing program and I have book marked this video and subscribed to your channel. Thank you. This was amazing.

I will definitely try the practice cards for behavior management. This method will assist me with brainstorming multiple logical consequences.

Hello from Micronesia. This is the first time I've watched your videos and it's amazing and at the same time, at least for me, mind boggling--only because I've never done or seen anything so cool like this. I'm a sped teacher as well, and I've never seen so much stuff happening in a classroom. I'd like to learn a lot of the things that you mentioned here which you said you showed in your previous videos. Again thank you very much.

Thanks for sharing your classroom. I am a teacher educator and just discovered your channel. Since my students can't be in classrooms for fieldwork experiences now due to COVID-19, I've been looking for other ways they can learn from SPED teachers. I just showed this clip to my class and students made connections to their reading. You are terrific! Thanks for all that you do!

Thank you! I work in self-contained classroom for 5th and 6th grade. I had a hard time with the lack of resources and appropriate amount of physical space last year. This video helped me brainstorm so much for the upcoming year! I don't know what is in store, but I'm trying to prepare for all scenarios! Thank you for making this channel!

This is phenomenal! I start as a special Ed aide tomorrow… Thanks for all you do 🙏

You are simply amazing! I have so much respect for your methods! We recently began homeschooling our kiddos because one has ASD and both are extremely gifted. I will definitely be binge-watching your channel to get inspiration and some amazing ideas. Thank you for supporting our extra special kiddos!!

Individualized learning & supports, behavior modification plan & practices, visual instructions, timers, routines, redundancy, equity. Genius classroom management! Thank you!!

This was very helpful, I appreciate you. I also appreciate your editing out your eye-rolling, that can be misconstrued by parents or guardians who have children who exhibit the behavior that you are describing when roll your eyes. And lastly I appreciate your confidence and pride in your natural hair styles. You & your hair are beautiful, let the haters hate, keep doing you. You are leading by example, I love it!!

Oh my goodness! Thank you so much for sharing how you set up your classroom and plan behavior management--you are so organized and clever...you are amazing! I am taking a Foundations of Special Ed class and will be checking out more of your videos to meet my assignment demands. Big kudos to you for all that you do!!

You are naturally brilliant, talented and full of life. Your ideas are pure genius and I truly appreciate what I've learned here. I'll be watching your other videos now. New subscriber! Thank you!

I found your video and I am so glad. I am starting a new position self-contained 2nd grade. Very helpful

Thank you so much for sharing! I may be working in a self contained room next year and this is so helpful!

As a fellow special education teacher, I really enjoyed being able to peek into your room! You have some great routines going on. This next year will be my first year working K-2 severe/profound and I found your video very helpful! I took notes!! I have done severe/profound high school, but I am much happier at the elementary level for SPED. I have worked Resource/Inclusion for a few years and look forward to a new challenge!

Thank you so much for sharing! I'm currently a parapro, and thinking about moving forward in becoming a SPED teacher! Just recently subscribed to your channel, finding a lot of good pointers! Thank you again! :)

I graduate in 2021 to be a special education teacher and your video has inspired me! You have such a great practical classroom, a positive attitude, and amazing energy! So glad I came across your channel. Thank you!

🗣I’M SO GLAD I FOUND YOU! I left the classroom after 13 years and stayed away for a year. I’m working as a para this year to acclimate myself with the SPED world before I get my own self contained class in the fall. Thank you, thank you, thank you… relevant, practical information. Subscribed and following!!!!!!!

I’m a Sped teacher for grades 4-6 and going into my 3rd year. I’m so glad I stumbled upon your page! So helpful, and you have sparked some many ideas for my class. Thank you!

I love the practice cards - this works better than trying to power struggle or coerce compliance in the middle of an outburst, and it is all about neurology. Being non-reactive when they are emotional, and later on having a moment to practice the skill means later on they are calm, collected and can access higher level cognitive functions. In the middle of an emotional upset the student can't access their reasoning/logical cognitive part of the brain. It's important to recognize that and not meet them in that emotional space and potentially escalate things. What a great channel, thanks for sharing!

I’m a parent, I live everything about your classroom. The first, then method works very well for my son. He too needs an individual visual schedule. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you!! I love your classroom and techniques, so helpful.

I’m a first year Resource Room K-2 teacher and LOVED the idea of putting student work into a bin to do later if they are not wanting to do it. This is something I think I can easily adapt to work for their gen teachers to do as well. Power struggles have been REAL this year.

Hi! This is my first time watching and I just want to say THANK YOU. I will be begin my teaching career, middle school sped, this fall and I am scared/thrilled. I know these are different grade levels but your video helped a lot still. You are awesome!

You are an awesome soul and passionate about what You do. I was asked to view the video for my program and well you have taught me some things that I will take with Me especially the practice cards

I am a future Sped Teacher and when I say you are so inspiring to me. I loved this video, it is so helpful and I learned alot. Thank you and FYI I love the thrift store to find items for my class too.

This has been SO helpful and it’s only the first video of yours I have seen. I have subscribed and can’t wait to dig in to what else you’re doing with your kiddos. I’ve taught life skills/sped for about 3 years now but am changing grade leveled (high school to elementary) and it’s been overwhelming to think about. Thanks again so much for putting these resources together.

Wow! SUBSCRIBED! Thank you so much for posting this video! You are amazing and such an inspiration!! I can’t wait to watch all of your videos!!

WOW! This is just wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing.

This is my 1st time watching you and I am a "regular" teacher and I must say that I think your approaches are very helpful and basic. Which in my opinion is...awesome!!! I will be subscribing because I think I can learn alot from you. I am all about simplicity and effectiveness. Keep up the great work! Your are SO right about being thrown into classrooms and expected to perform miracles. We just want functionality as opposed to Pinterest decor.

Hi! I'm from Spain and I'm working as a student support assistant and I reeeally LOVE watching your videos because I can learn a lot of specific vocabulary, so keep uploading videos, pleeease!!! 🙏 Thank you and greetings 😊

Your classroom is AMAZING! The practice box is definitely something I am going to start using.

I’m currently a Para in a self contained classroom, for 9 years and am on my way to becoming a SPED elementary teacher! I love your video and am so glad I found you.

You are an angel from heaven. I found you recently and I have no words to thank you. its very hard when a person is just starting in special education i might be doing a self contained classroom. so the more ideas that i get the better .

Very nice. You have worked hard to organise your classroom and educate the kids. As a parent of a special needs adult I really appreciate the work you have put in. Best wishes from India and we look forward to viewing your other videos. Blessings.

That name card with the tabs is the most brilliant thing I've ever seen!

Oh how I wish that I could speak to you in person. I am in Haiti and am going to be educating 22 students ranging from preschool - 6th grade. English is their second language and there are a ton of different needs. Love that I found your channel

Thank you so much for this video! It is soooo helpful. I’ve been studying early childhood education for almost 3 years now in Peru, but life got me a work 2 years ago as an elementary teacher that I really like. I just decided to change majors next fall to elementary education because I’m going to the us to finish my bachelors degree and I had the same amount of credits left for both careers. Today my new university asked me if I also wanted a special education endorsement and I was pretty sure about my answer. I just had a special education student at my homeroom this year and ever since then I’ve always known I want to educate myself more about it because I feel I could have been more prepared and he taught me a lot. He did had a shadow with him at all times even tho we did online school. I was just kinda scared because it’s all so new and unknown for me and didn’t know what to expect. This video really helped me know a little bit better what to expect ♥️

Feeling check in I’ve seen this before but never like this I love it !!!

This video was REALLY helpful!! I’m a first year special education teacher in an Intensive Resource Room that is being run as a self contained room for the remainder of the year!

I teach K-2 in a special education school. I love everything you did! I have some ideas to help my students. I wish we had more padded dividers as I believe these would help several of my students work better.

Ok I'm 2:06 minutes in and realize how much I've needed this exact information. I'm the director of our special needs department at our church for the last 20 years. We getting ready to move to a new hall, new rooms and I have a beautiful mix of kids from 4 to 20 (not together lol) in two classrooms. Because I use volunteers, and the kids come and go...whew! there is constant change and training. I can say I'm thankful to have found your page!

I have been a Paraeducator for 22 years and 2 years ago started college to become a Special Education teacher. I love this video and will be watching more real soon. You have some great tips, and I might even introduce some ideas to the teacher I work with now. She is great, but it is always good to have more tools in your toolbox. Anyhow, I am glad I found your channel.

Girl, you got me hooked the first five minutes of talking about what really matters in the classroom❤❤❤❤❤❤

I'm going to be a special Ed teacher in Germany soon :) it's so interesting to see where similarities and differences are between our schools :) thanks for this video!!

OMG!!! Incoming 1st year teachers here and that video just helped me so much! Thank you

I’m a mom of a special needs child and I am also studying the praxis 0435 functional skills k-12. It’s also a position open at my school. I am so grateful I found your channel ❤️

I am so glad I found you!!!! I am a new teacher K-5 ESE self contained. I am literally panicking. This helps so much!!!

I love how you use different scheduling boards for different kiddos! Awesome video! ⭐️⭐️

Wow! First Special Ed teacher I’ve found on here! I started SEND teaching in England this Sept and will definitely be trawling your account for ideas 👍 My students are 11-14, with a few non verbal students to those in wheelchairs and even a high functioning ASD student...we have a lot of fun, and sometimes even do some teaching and learning 😂

I wish my kids had an instructor like you...You take the time to make learning fun for your students. Great job on keeping the rewards relevant to their interests - I’ve seen it where the rewards don’t align w the child’s interest so the positive reinforcement doesn’t work as well

My kiddo is only 2 but this was great info because I’m preparing for what’s to come in her early childhood education and how I can help get her ready. Best of luck in your career, you seem perfectly suited for what you do!

Thank you for these videos. I’m starting from scratch grades k-5 ESE and with little to no material and equipment. Your videos bless so many!

Thank you so much, this video is so awesome! I have my own MC class next year, high school! I am going to go watch the rest of your videos now.

Thank you for creating this video! This has helped me out so, so much and has given me ideas on how to set up my classroom! ❤

Learning to be a teacher without observing has been difficult. I’m a visual learner and this video was super helpful, thanks!

As an early childhood educator, Ontario certified teacher, and mom to an autistic kindergartener in a self-contained primary classroom, I found this video really interesting as I have been curious as to how it all might work. I have since subscribed as I hope to be able to apply some of your strategies to the kindergarten classroom in which I am currently assigned.

SO glad I found your videos. Starting to teach (after a career change) and slightly freaking out! This was amazing.

JUST CAME ACROSS YOUR VLOG. GREAT ADVICE. I LOVE YOUR ROOM SETUP. VERY ORGANIZED AND FUNCTIONS. HAVE A BLESSED WEEK.

This is very helpful to understand the SPED teacher's job. Thank you so much.