Rose's Resources

Left the classroom in 2016 for a doctoral program in education. Before that, I worked in special education for over ten years as a teacher, classroom assistant, and a child care worker at group homes.

Can you call being a pragmatist a teaching style? My goal has always been to figure out what will help each individual student learn whether that is finding a new program, writing one, providing treats, finding tutoring, bribing siblings. I never found a favorite program or teaching method-- I liked whatever worked for a given student on a given day!

My shining teacher moment was when a student gave me her favorite happy meal toy. It was well loved and a bit tattered, but she was so excited to give it to me! What made the moment shining however was when the student snuck back into my room at the end of the day to ask if she could please have it back.

Ed.D. Curriculum and Instruction, 2019; M.Ed. Special Education, 2007

I started writing curriculum after realizing that nothing I could find at a teaching store worked for my students-- I wanted organized, sequential material that targeted specific skills and IEP goals. So I decided to write my own! My assessment packets however began after a mentor teacher my first year shared hers with me. It saved my life that year and over the years I expanded it, switched out the copied materials with my own materials, and made it my own. I didn't finish the final version until after she retired-- but I sent it to her anyhow so she could see how much that packet she initially gave me shaped what I did all of those years later!