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Task- Maintain Positive Expectations
This is a great way to support mental health and helps students identify their feelings and practice a calming mantra tailored to what they need that day. As students are exhibiting certain feelings they can go grab a mantra to keep as long as they need. Demonstrate to students how to pick their mantra, sit with it, and have mindful meditation.

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Take Home Folder for Parent Communication

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Take Home Folder for Parent Communication

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Task- Initiate and maintain family contacts
By a creating a designated spot in the students binder for parent-teacher communications will help to keep daily lessons, projects, school forms organized. It also promotes parent involvement.

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Task-Initiate and maintain family contacts
Creating a teacher introduction letter gives parents a chance to meet you before their child even steps foot in the classroom. It can also help ease any concerns about your passion and qualifications, inspires parents to actively participate, and gives them a vital info on how to contact you.

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Task-Implement Effective Instructional Practices
Greeting each student at the door with a positive message brings benefit to students and teacher.  Giving a personalized handshake, high-five, and or greeting will help to establish a positive classroom climate where students feel a sense of connection and belonging.

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Task- Implement effective instructional practices.
Predictable routines reduce anxiety and uncertainty. They influence a child's emotional, cognitive, and social development. Having a daily schedule or agenda posted is especially vital for your student's with exceptionalities.

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Task- Implement Effective Instructional Processes
Creating and displaying morning task boards is a great way to provide effective instructional practices. By giving students a to do list, giving a daily goal, and previewing the important logistics students will have better understanding of the day's tasks.

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Task- Maintain Positive Expectations
Providing student's with visual aides arouse the interets of the learner and helps the teacher to explain the concepts easily.  Having visual displays and posters throughout various areas in the classroom and schools will serve as good reminders.

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Clearly Defined and Posted Classroom Rule and Procedures

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Clearly Defined and Posted Classroom Rule and Procedures

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Task- Develop guidelines for sucess.
Classroom rules and procedures that are clearly defined and posted help students understand what is appropriate and what is not, as well as the consequences for rule violations.  Modeling and providing example of unexpected behaviors helps student understand how and why they are important.

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Creating Classroom Norms with the Students

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Creating Classroom Norms with the Students

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Task- Develop Guidelines for success
Establishing classroom rules and procedures helps teachers maintain class routines and student expectations for classwork and behaviors. Giving students a say will allow them to feel valued.  As they contribute to the classroom expectations, they are more likely to follow them.

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Task- Identify Long-range classroom goals.
One way to implement long-range goals is to create a vision board with the class.  Create a vision board with your students at the beginning of the school year and reflect back on their goals throughout the year. Create a vision board at the end of the school year to create goals for the upcoming school year.

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Task-Understanding Motivation
Having a Pom-Pom jar is a great way to motivate students, hold students accountable, and encourage positive behaviors.  If you see students working hard, helping others, showing respect, and following directions you put scoop of pom-poms in the jar.  When the jar is full student students get to win a prize like pajama day or bring your toy to school time.  The visual representations and immediate feedback is helpful for students.

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Task- Understand how to shape behavior
Basic science shows that students who get regular breaks during academic time are better able to store and remember new information.  Scheduling in brain breaks can also help promote physical activity.

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Task: Maintain positive expectations
In order to help others, we must take care of ourselves.  By moving all the way through the stress response cycle we stay healthier and are more equipped to maintain positivity in the classroom and with our students.  Taking time to share with the class about what we did to complete our stress response cycle will encourage healthy habits.

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Task: Initiate and maintain family contact
Giving families a survey to complete about their student is great way to to build relationships with them and to learn the individual strengths and needs of each student. It is also a great way to find out their preferred method of communication.

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Getting to know your new students at the beginning of the year is crucial to build relationships and to create a great start to the school year! The best way to get to know your students? By asking the experts- their parents! Send home this parent survey at the beginning of the school year as "homework" for the parents. It's a quick one sided survey that parents can fill out to tell you their child's strengths, areas of needs, and interests outside of school. Keep the surveys that the parents return and refer to them for the rest of the year.
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-A pre-made one page parent survey to send home at the beginning of the school year (2 versions- one with a quick explanation of the survey, and one without it)

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Beginning of the Year Parent Survey Getting to know your new students at the beginning of the year is crucial to build relationships and to create a great start to the school year! The best way to get to know your students? By asking the experts- their parents!

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Task: Understand how to shape behavior
The idea is to create a mystery reward for students to earn by demonstrating behavior expectations and daily tasks. Students or teacher get to remove a post-it when the task or expectation is met. Helps students learn to work together to accomplish a common goal in fun by promoting positive reinforcement of good behavior. A great way to help young kids stay on task in the classroom.