We are all so completely busy! And... I am not sure if you have the same type of problems as myself; however, I am a procrastinator! In saying this, this resource is a printable that includes a strategy for managing your time. In this resource, the "Einstein Urgent Important Principle" is utilized and will prove to be a huge asset! Try it! Specifically, it allows you to prioritize your "to-do" list into four different categories which include: (1) Important and Urgent-- do it now; (2) Important, But Not Urgent-- Plan It; (3) Not Important, But Urgent -- Delegate it; and then (4) Not Important and Not Urgent -- Dump It! Try this printable-- hope you enjoy!

Okay my teacher friends! This is for you! It’s time to think about what YOU want to do this summer to rejuvenate! Increase that dopamine and serotonin! It’s a must to be your best and be able to return in August with your “A-Game!” Use these bucket list cards to choose and write down goals for the summer – professional and personal! Go out have a great day and locate an awesome bucket to “house your goals”! Get a pack of clothespins and clip your goals to your bucket! As you accomplish them, unclip them and drop them in the bucket! Remember that you MUST have professional and personal goals… all work and no play is not healthy! But, most importantly, have fun and relax -- this time is about you and your family so that in August you can be your absolute best!

Calling all administrators and education majors... This is a four page needs assessment survey which is a great tool for administrators to use on his/her campus to grasp the heartbeat of the culture, achievement, and levels of professional development needed! It is designed in a likert scale format with "4" being the highest score! Sections include: (1) High expectations for student achievement (2) Focusing on teaching and learning (3) Parental and community involvement in the educational program (4) Continuous assessment of students, staff, and programs to evaluate program effectiveness (5) Safe and orderly environment (6) Staff effectiveness and professional development (7) Capable leadership As well, education majors in undergraduate school as well as masters and specialist level candidates in education, this is a great tool for one of your classes which may require such an assignment!

This simple visual aid will make taking the lunch count each day so much more simple; use this as a simple classroom management tool. This visual aid makes taking the lunch count a simple picnic! Affix each of the five mini-posters on the wall in a prominent place for the students to be able to reach and manipulate. Place each student’s name on a clothespin with a black marker and clip to the “Present” mini-poster. As part of opening school routines and procedures, teach your students, as they arrive to the classroom first thing in the morning, to take their clothespin and clip to one of the appropriate mini-posters to indicate their lunch plans for the day which might be: (1) a hot school lunch; (2) a salad from the salad bar at school; (3) a salad that is solely fruit from the school salad bar; and/or (4) the student may have brought his/her lunch from home. The clothespins which are never moved indicate those students who are either tardy and/or absent. At the conclusion of the day, have a designated student to remove all of the clothespins from the prospective choices, and return them all to the “Present” sign.

These twelve slides can serve as an excellent training tool for a parent conference, small group parent workshop, or a larger scale Parent University activity. The content contained in the slides is material published by the ATTitude journal in regards to ADD and ADHD children, teenagers, and adults. Many, many parents are in need of such information. In the set of training slides, reference is noted to two books that parents might want to check out for further information. Specifically, there are ten anger management tips that might be used with your students and his/her parents! The slides are set up to be used as a great presentation and a springboard for further discussion.

This is a set of ten mini-posters with a math strategy for students to use as they employ the “Standards for Mathematical Practice” on each poster. These posters are perfect to place in a math classroom above the white board for easy reference. When students are stuck on a step in a math computational problem as well as a word problem, they can utilize these mini-posters with the strategies on bright colored paper for easy reference! A must for any math teacher!

This is an awesome set of notes for positive praise for the month of October. The set of three different positive praise notes are set against an October background and will bolster the motivation level of your students and will be a great source of encouragement. These notes can be given daily or weekly attached to signed papers. It is a great way of communication. Notes include statements such as: "I helped a friend, I tried hard, I finished all of my work,... etc."

This is a powerpoint for training and instructional purposes. You will find fourteen slides. Ten of these slides explain homework and study shortcuts that have been proven to be beneficial to upper elementary, middle school, high school, and college students. As well, these strategies have been found to be very helpful with students and adults diagnosed with ADHD. These slides can be used in a focused faculty session, professional development session, or a professional learning community session in working to develop these strategies among teachers to teach students. As well, these slides can be used in working to equip students with these strategies. Finally, these slides can be used in a "Parent University" atmosphere to provide parents with training on the strategies as well.

Evidence suggests that children who reverse numbers or letters may have a visual tracking problem that produces dyslexia. Use these “blue bandages” to place under the text or problem that students are working on to help them focus. The “blue bandages” might be placed on a craft stick for more durability or laminated for longer use! This resource packet contains thirty “blue bandages.” Students will be able to focus better on keeping up and tracking as they read with this tool!

In this training and support packet of materials, you will find a powerpoint presentation that can be used for a professional learning community session, a focused faculty meeting, and/or a professional development session. There are a total of fourteen slides which encourage teachers to shift students into "high gear" thinking. The slides focus on the point that as long as students are involved in only memory and recall then they have trouble with "low gear" thinking! The point is made to involve students in "high gear" engaging activities, and they will grasp and retain much more than when asked to simply recall. This training presentation is a "jumping off point" into constructing/creating engaging teaching and learning activities!

How many of us have great intentions when it comes to placing on our "To-Do" list making a positive call, email, text, etc. to one of our students' parents to communicate with them something great their child has achieved. While we have great intentions, all too often, it "slips to the back burner" and doesn't happen as often as it should. Use this resource to make sure this happens, and use it as a tool to make sure that within a given amount of time most all of your students have received that magic "bellsouth" call expressing something that everyone can be proud of... we know that many times the not-so-positive phone call, email, text, etc is received so much better and more positive when a positive piece of news has been shared as well along the way. Use this log to keep track of your communication as well as a tool to utilize at parent conferences-- great tool to begin the year with not to mention how much students will love your efforts!

Think for a few minutes how much time you spend each day trying to gather assignments for students who have had to check out early or have been absent all day. It is a very important task; however, we know that it can take valuable time. This resource is to help you out! Don’t spend any more time scurrying through your lesson plans to make sure you don’t miss any of the make-up work and/or announcements that your student(s) may have missed. Use a page each day to stay “ahead of the make-up work/announcements/what's for homework syndrome.” This assignment book is very similar to student assignment planners that are sometimes given to students at the beginning of the year. On each page, first, there is a small space to record the date. Additionally, there is a space for you to document who was absent or checked out early etc. The biggest area of the sheet is a space for you to jot down, throughout the day, assignments that were given to students. By jotting them down, you can very quickly look and gather materials quickly for these students. There is also a space dedicated to any important announcements that were made and/or notes that might have gone home or project directions, etc. This area is for all of those other important things that are communicated to the students that the student who is absent doesn’t hear or receive. The last area on the sheet is that of a space dedicated to place any homework assignments that were discussed, assigned, and/or gone over. By placing all of the information in one spot daily, this becomes a huge time-saver and we all know how valuable our instructional time is. I have included sixty-five pages in this packet but I encourage you to download as often as you need throughout the school year!

How many of us have great intentions when it comes to placing on our "To-Do" list making a positive call, email, text, etc. to one of our students' parents to communicate with them something great their child has achieved. While we have great intentions, all too often, it "slips to the back burner" and doesn't happen as often as it should. Use this resource to make sure this happens, and use it as a tool to make sure that within a given amount of time most all of your students have received that magic "bellsouth" call expressing something that everyone can be proud of... we know that many times the not-so-positive phone call, email, text, etc is received so much better and more positive when a positive piece of news has been shared as well along the way. Use this log to keep track of your communication as well as a tool to utilize at parent conferences-- great tool to begin the year with not to mention how much students will love your efforts!

One hall mark of ADHD is trouble with executive function. ADHD kids aren’t the best planners, organizers, or self-regulators. This can get very frustrating very quickly. This training presentation presents ten, simple steps can be followed to boost all seven executive functions and also help your child/student gain more independence. This presentation might be used in a professional learning community for growth in the area of ADHD and executive function, a school-wide focused faculty meeting, or even a district-wide professional development session with general education as well as special services teachers. Executive function has received much attention and research and is worth the investigation in that many, many students have difficulty with this and many times adults think it is instinctive! This might also be a training session implemented with parents who will benefit from the ten simple steps as well!

This presentation is comprised of seventeen slides which are all anecdotes of all too familiar happenings with children who exhibit ADD/ADHD characteristics. Each child, as we all well know, is different and unique! Use these slides at the conclusion of an all day training as closure or use them at a Parent University or parent workshop. All teachers and parents can relate to the content for sure! The content is meant to highlight the funny side of living with an ADHD child!

This packet is a great idea for classroom management! In this packet, you will find six sheets of “Your Turn To Talk Tickets!” Students might place two or three tickets at the top corners of their desk during a direct instruction activity. When a student has a turn to talk in response to the activity, after speaking that student can give you one of his/her tickets. When the student’s tickets are gone, he/she can not talk again until the activity is different. You can make many, many variations for these tickets! Additionally, there are six other pages of “You Owe Me” tickets. These tickets might be issued to students when they forget and interrupt instruction and other students’ learning. These tickets state that they will owe you time! These tickets suggest that time is taken in increments and not all at one time!

This product is training material in the form of a powerpoint presentation. This presentation will be great for a Parent University, a focused faculty session, a PTO open house session, or a professional learning community. As well, this material might be used with a parent group in terms of advice regarding parenting and disciplining children with ADHD. In this material, there are seven strategies to work with children where discipline is concerned particularly children diagnosed with ADHD. Finally, this is basically seven great pieces of advice for when a parent reaches the end of his/her rope with an unruly child who raises the volume on challenging behavior!

These eleven slides will serve as excellent material to use for training in terms of a focused faculty meeting, a professional development session, a parent conference, a Parent University forum, or simply a professional learning community for teachers. The slides focus on eight specific challenges that ADHD, ADD, and/or LD students/children face daily. Along with each challenge, there are four to five suggested accommodations given to try with students ~ students who have a 504 plan, students who are IDEA eligible, and other students who might need the extra support! As much as these slides can be shared with teachers, they should also be used to share with parents as well!

Working memory is part of our executive function and if often referred to as our “mental workspace” where information is stored and used for a short time i.e. a few seconds. It’s that place where we store a phone number, an address, an email address, etc. If a student is not able to retain the information needed to solve the problem, then the student is unable to complete the task and, of course, does not feel good about it at all. What is language processing? Several parts of language are very difficult for children with ADHD to make sense of and use successfully on a daily basis. Syntax is the set of rules of oral and written grammar. Semantics are the word meanings that influence oral and written grammar. Finally, pragmatics is the social use of language to convey thoughts and humor. The following thirty-three presentation and training slides are an explanation of many different memory techniques and strategies that can be modeled and used successfully with students with characteristics of ADHD to help improve his/her/their working memory deficits. This training can be used in a focused faculty meeting, an all-day professional development session, and/or a small group professional learning community. As well, this training can be given to parents to allow them to help their children at home more successfully when studying with them or helping with homework!

In this packet/presentation, there are twenty-five discipline strategies to consider as a parent and/or a teacher when working with an ADHD child/student. These strategies are only a sampling of what is additionally available from ADDitude’s Experts a journal published monthly. Use this power-point for a “Parent University” training session for parents of children with ADHD. As well, these slides can be used in a professional development training session, focused faculty meeting, or professional learning community.