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Reference for the OCDSB

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A lesson example of how to adapt a lesson plan for all students - shows considerations for DI.

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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A report on Giftedness that includes teaching strategies and resources

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A more school focused book - on my reading list.

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The Explosive Child by Ross Greene (6th Ed) 

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A great book to recommend to colleagues and parents. Focus on collaborative problem solving approach - something we can all use more of!

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The Explosive Child [Sixth Edition]: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children

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The Explosive Child [Sixth Edition]: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children: Greene PhD, Ross W: 9780063092464: Books - Amazon.ca

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Policy Document

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Ottawa community resources for parents and students.

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Project completed on MID and DD. Good resource to reference for that exceptionality.

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Youth Net Presentations by Youth for Youth. Excellent resource and great presentations to book for your classes.

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We are YouthNet/RéseauAdo (YNRA), a for youth, by youth mental health promotion and intervention organization that offers services in both French and English. We talk about mental health and engage in healthy activities to reduce stigma, promote positive coping strategies, and encourage reaching out for help.

Presentations

Wellness 101

We all have mental health, and mental health is just as important for our well-being as physical health. The goals for this presentation are for youth to understand mental health, understand the stigma associated with mental health/mental illness, better notice changes in their mental health, and learn where to go to ask for help.
Duration: 1 hour long
Capacity: 65 youth ages 13-20
Book Presentation

StressLess

We all experience stress in our lives, and stress can be overwhelming. This goals for this presentation are for youth to understand stress and its purpose, notice the signs of being distressed, and learn about coping and resources that are helpful with managing stress.
Duration: 1 hour long
Capacity: 65 youth ages 13-20
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How to Help a Friend

Our research has shown that youth are more likely to talk to other youth about their mental health issues when they talk to someone. The goals for this presentation are for youth to notice changes in their friends, become more comfortable checking in on a friend's mental health, and learn how to connect a friend who is struggling to resources.
Duration: 1 hour and 10 minutes long
Capacity: 30 youth ages 15-20
Book Presentation

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we are creating new ways to connect to our services. To sign up CLICK HERE.

Resources

For general questions about the COVID-19 virus visit Ottawa Public Health website

Latest news from CAMH

Kids Help Phone 1-800-668-6868

Distress Centre Ottawa 613-238-3311

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Ressources

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Dernières nouvelles de CAMH

Pour une liste d'organismes et de ressources à l'appui des jeunes visiter le MaListeMaSante.ca

Jeunesse, J'écoute 1-800-668-6868

Distress Centre Ottawa 613-238-3311

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YouthNet RéseauAdo | Mental Health Services for Youth | YNRA

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We are YouthNet/RéseauAdo (YNRA), a for youth, by youth mental health promotion and intervention organization that offers services in both French and English. We talk about mental health and engage in healthy activities to reduce stigma, promote positive coping strategies, and encourage reaching out for help.

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Educators and students need to know how to self-care! We can't help other's effectively if we don't take care of ourselves.

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Strategies to help students reach out for support and identify when they might need to. From Mental Health Ontario

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Students need to learn how to recognize when and how they need to help themselves regulate through body or brain breaks.

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Assignment #4 - Self-Assessment _RLP.pdf

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All in one spot! Books and helpful website listed!

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Problem of Practice/Lunch and Learn Workshop

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Problem of Practice/Lunch and Learn Workshop

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Focused on a student with weak memory skills

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Compilation guide of interventions and strategies to support student needs.

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Helpful reference for teachers for the IPRC process!

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Helpful info for parents and educators!

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What works? Short articles that help by giving concrete suggestions and tools.

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Capacity Building Series Articles - a new resource for me, but great content! Short and to the point as well - so good to share with staff.

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Ontario Educators - Capacity building series

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After attending a workshop aimed at understanding how to help students who struggle with social communication - this was a recommended book!

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Digital version must be purchased separately-only on Apple Books and Google Play with an audio feature for accessibility.

The social world is a big, complicated place where we are all social detectives as we observe, gather, and make sense of the clues in different social contexts (settings, situations, and the people in them) to figure out the hidden rules for expected behaviors, as well as to understand how we each feel and think about what others say and do in a situation. This 2 nd edition teaches social learners the power of observation, reading context, and interpreting clues to then choose how to respond in ways that meet their social goals.
Guide readers on a journey of discovery where they can:
A new structured approach to observation, new illustrations reflecting a broader range of inclusion and diversity in characters, practice pages and activities for deeper learning, specific teaching tips, and a glossary of Social Thinking Vocabulary and concepts are just some of the new material you'll find inside.
What's new in this 2nd Edition

Learn formulas for gathering clues by observing a setting, the situation, and the people it

Be empowered to figure out how the social world works through their own detective lens

Learn to identify feelings and emotions and connect them to behaviors

Understand that all feelings are okay, even uncomfortable ones, and we can still learn and grow

Get support from emojis and special word banks

Find Social Thinking® core vocabulary words highlighted throughout to support and strengthen key learning concepts

Have numerous opportunities to make smart guesses about hidden social rules in various situations

See examples and tips for school, home, and community life

Celebrate how all of us are social observers who are affected by others' actions and reactions

A structured approach to observation and clue gathering
In this new edition, we've added a structured approach to observing what's happening and gathering clues for figuring out the hidden rules in a wide variety of situations-from the playground, math class, and school cafeteria to bedtime at home. Kids not only learn how to tune into the social world around them, but also to examine their own and others' actions and reactions, figuring out how a certain behavioral response influences their own and others' thoughts and feelings.

Practice pages for applying learning
Also new to the second edition are six practice pages with scenarios across a variety of environments, including the playground, home, and classroom settings. This storybook covers a lot of ground in teaching and practicing self-awareness and social competencies-and it also teaches interventionists (parents, caregivers, and professionals) and their social learners the Social Thinking® Vocabulary and concepts to support the social emotional learning process.

Updated illustrations
New illustrations promote inclusion and diversity with the addition of a girl Social Detective and everyday social learners of diverse races, different body types, and varied physical differences, all learning how to observe everyday situations and collect vital clues for understanding the hidden rules for expected behaviors.

Glossary of Social Thinking® Vocabulary
Throughout the book, keywords are highlighted in bold. These keywords represent the Social Thinking® Vocabulary, concepts that can be used in just about every environment, by everyone in the process of discovering and practicing social thinking. The words are also fully defined in a glossary in the front of the book for easy reference. All vocabulary helps to identify aspects of the social emotional chain reaction, which describes how each person is part of something larger than themselves in every social situation.
Recommended reading and teaching sections:
Tips for teaching and getting started
We recommend that interventionists (parents, caregivers, and professionals) first read You Are a Social Detective! by themselves, to learn our unique and explicit Social Thinking Vocabulary and underlying concepts of how we impact each other. Once interventionists and students learn the vocabulary and social concepts, it can be used during teachable moments everywhere: within curriculum instruction (e.g., reading comprehension of literature), in class, online, on the playground, in the community, and at home. We then recommend reading this book with kids in sections and combining that reading selection with real-life discussions about how the concepts apply to the social learners and their daily lives.

1. My Smarts, School Smarts, Social Smarts p. 1-7

2. The Situation p. 8-12

3. Being a Social Detective and Smart Guess, Wacky Guess p. 13- 23

4. Hidden Rules in a Situation, Expected Behaviors p. 24-37

5. Unexpected Behaviors p. 38-45

6. Review and Practice p. 46-53

You Are a Social Detective! is the first storybook in the Superflex® Series
Because You Are a Social Detective! teaches from the social learner's perspective about observing the social world before learning to self-regulate specific social behaviors, it should be the first book to read with students prior to introducing the Superflex®...A Superhero Social Thinking® Curriculum and related storybooks. It's critical that social learners and their interventionists be familiar with the Social Thinking Vocabulary and that social learners understand the concept of observing social situations and reading clues-that is, become social detectives first to lay the groundwork for learning to self-regulate social behavior with the help of the Superflex Curriculum and storybooks.

This storybook can be used with some tweens and teens
Elementary school-aged (K-5) students, as well as immature older middle and high school students who enjoy visual or comic-style books may benefit from this book. You don't have to be a child to be interested in how the social world works. To benefit from this book requires readers to be able to think about their own and others' thinking, as well as discuss the concepts with others!

This storybook can be used with almost all kids!
This isn't just a storybook for students who have social emotional learning challenges related to the autism spectrum, ADHD, developmental language disorders, twice exceptional, and kids experiencing any type of social learning challenges. The expanded and revised lessons also offer a variety of engaging ways to introduce metacognitive concepts-taught through our Social Thinking Methodology-to all kids in mainstream education. Interventionists and administrators often take for granted the complexities of social emotional learning for all kids. This book is a strong resource to be read and discussed with most kids ages 6-10 years old, whether you are a general education teacher, paraprofessional, parent, caregiver, special educator, grandparent, sibling, daycare worker, scout leader, and more.

No translations available
This 2nd edition is not available in any other language, including Spanish or French.

High-engagement learning and practice
Every one of us should be learning to be a Social Detective to help us figure out what's going on around us, in the books we read, and the media we consume. We are good Social Detectives when we use our eyes, ears, hearts, and brains to figure out what others are planning to do next or are presently doing and what they mean by their words and actions. This engaging, illustrated book offers different concepts to teach social learners how to develop their own observation and context clue-interpreting skills. Enjoy watching your students and kids blossom daily into successful Social Detectives, who are taking the time to read a social situation prior to their forming a social response. Then, encourage children to practice their detective skills with the interactive Social Detective App based on the original book!

Related books
You are a Social Detective! provides an overview of key concepts that help to explore our own and others' social thinking. Extend this teaching to kids in grades 4-7 with Social Thinking® and Me, a two-book set containing Kids' Guidebook to Social Emotional Learning and Thinksheets for Social Emotional Learning. The set delves into Social Thinking Vocabulary concepts such as f lexible thinking and stuck thinking, thinking with your eyes, the hidden rules and expected and unexpected behaviors, self-awareness of our bodies, eyes, ears, and brains in the group, and more. If interventionists want to learn more about the Social Thinking Methodology and ideas for social skills assessment, explore Thinking About You Thinking About Me, 2nd Ed. To learn even more Social Thinking Vocabulary concepts along with basic ideas for exploring them with your social learners, check out Think Social!. The concepts explored in this book then help social learners begin to harness their superflexible powers with the use of our Superflex Curriculum series.

On Demand training for more tips on teaching Social Thinking Vocabulary and treatment frameworks
Learn new ideas for teaching the core concepts with You Are A Social Detective!, as well as other Social Thinking Vocabulary and treatment frameworks through a variety of On Demand Courses.

Learn about our other products for kids 8-11 years old!
Michelle Garcia Winner, You Are a Social Detective! co-author and the founder of Social Thinking®, shares tips for teaching kids ages 8-11 with Social Thinking products (including You are a Social Detective!) in this free, recorded webinar. Get the inside scoop!

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You Are a Social Detective! Explaining Social Thinking to Kids, 2nd Edition

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The social world is a big, complicated place that requires us to constantly figure out hidden rules in situations to help us make sense of how we are all interpreting and responding to each other's actions and reactions.

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These videos can be shared with students, parents, and teachers to help them navigate the Google Suite from turning in assignments to scanning working with their phone to submit, and more!

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PD Session - Leveraging the Google Suite Assistive Technology

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Leveraging the Google Suite as Assistive Technology for intermediate students

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PD Session - Teaching Self-Advocacy to Students with ASD

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PD Session - Teaching Self-Advocacy to Students with ASD

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Teaching Self-Advocacy to Students with an ASD

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Education is for everyone. Accessibility and inclusivity are pillars of a school community. I believe that it is our duty and responsibility as educators to ensure that we actively look for ways to make our classrooms and schools places where students feel safe and confident enough to take risks in their learning - especially those who do not find learning "easy" or "fun". We must actively look at our own privilege to recognize barriers that our students might face in their journey through the education system and do our best to help provide them with the tools, strategies and resources to succeed in life. We need to ask the question of how we can work together to solve problems? How can we make changes to the way we teach and assess? What can we do to help our students who are struggling learners to feel successful and meet their goals?