One of my career highlights has been as an invited speaker at the recent Social Thinking conference in Philadelphia.  During their presentation, Michelle Garcia Winner and Pam Crooke made a pointed effort to stress the importance of working on foundational skills.  An example was given of a teacher who commented that she had completed all the lessons in “Think Social”… Read More

I love Leah Kuyper’s Zones of Regulation curriculum.  If you are unfamiliar with this approach, it is a way of categorizing emotions into four “zones”.  The lessons developed by Ms. Kuypers include sensory integration and regulation as well as emotional awareness and executive functioning. Recently, while working with a group of 8-year-olds, one of the children described being in the… Read More