The ED Queen

5 simple things to re-center yourself during those tough, challenging moments 🧠 🤍

‘When you know..’ sped teacher edition!

I hope your IEP’s are done and you can drink your coffee warm on this Valentine’s Day! 💕

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Behavior scaffolding and academic scaffolding have more in common than you think 💭

Case conference team and bad bunny collab 🎤 🐰

Just like Bad Bunny brings artists together to make hits that everyone feels 🎧🔥, our special education case conference team comes together to create something amazing for our students. When we collaborate, listen, and agree on a student’s needs and goals, we’re creating an IEP that truly hits the right note.

How could I not resist this trend highlighting all my favorite things!

🤍Special education
📈student behavior
✈️creating supportive plans for students & staff
💜the color purple
😌de-escalation strategies
🐾 & the pugs!

Trend: make a caricature of me highlighting all of my favorite things!

When we wait to intervene until behaviors escalate, we miss the most powerful teaching moments.

Low-level behaviors are communication, not “nothing to worry about.”

Those early cues are telling us a student is starting to feel dysregulated.

When we respond early, we’re meeting needs before the nervous system hits survival mode.

That’s when students are actually able to hear us, practice coping skills, and learn replacement behaviors.

Ignoring low-level behavior doesn’t make it disappear — it teaches students to go bigger to be seen.

Intervening early keeps everyone safer and builds trust.
Over time, it creates real skill-building instead of repeated crisis response.

Support early, teach often, and shape behavior proactively, not reactively.

👂🏼 we throwing it back to 2016! That Sam would be so proud of 2026 Sam. Keep moving forward. Before you know it, 10 years will have passed and you’ll be grateful for the moments and experiences that have made you the educator you are today 🫶🏼🤍