The Special Educator’s Toolkit Seminar

Reduce your stress and support student success! In each of these seminars, Dr. Cindy Golden—a special educator, administrator, and psychologist with almost 30 years of experience—takes you through her innovative, research-based approach to creating effective classrooms where every child learns. Based on Dr. Golden’s popular book, The Special Educator’s Toolkit, these seminars will help you organize your classroom and expertly manage everything, from schedules and paperwork to student supports and behavior plans.

Dr. Golden walks you step by step through 6 critical aspects of organization:

1. Environment. Make the most of every inch of classroom space! Clean out clutter, arrange furniture to improve traffic flow, and construct classroom zones, work stations, and bulletin board displays that support learning.
2. Communication. Implement low-cost communication supports that meet student needs. Make simple picture symbol books, interactive schedules, labels for classroom areas and objects, and more.
3. Teaching Methods and Materials. Determine student needs, create schedules, simplify the IEP process, and pinpoint the best methods for teaching academic, vocational, behavioral, social, and life skills.
4. Behavioral Systems. Organize a successful behavioral system that motivates students, helps them improve behavior and social skills, and uses positive reinforcement techniques.
5. Data and Paperwork. Learn the secrets to creating a simple, logical, highly efficient system for managing paperwork—so more time can be spent on teaching.
6. Staff and Home Supports. Build trusting, respectful relationships with classroom staff and parents with stress-free strategies like team meetings and home communication notebooks.