Visual Scaffolds: Color Poster Maker Machine Executive Function Support Last Tuesday, I watched Emma stare at her math worksheet for fifteen minutes. Not because she couldn't do the problems—she'd aced similar ones yesterday. She simply couldn't figure out where to [...]
Math Anxiety Busters: Visual Strategies That Work Yesterday, I watched Sarah freeze at the board. The moment I wrote "24 ÷ 3," her shoulders tensed. Sound familiar? Here's what changed everything: we created a poster making machine for schools math [...]
Picture this: Maya, a bright third-grader with ADHD, enters her classroom Monday morning. The walls burst with neon posters, overlapping text, and busy patterns. By 9:15, she's overwhelmed, unable to focus on her morning work. Sound familiar? As an [...]
Transform State Writing Tests with Visual Rubrics Last week, a frazzled fourth-grade teacher from Tampa burst into my office. "Claire, our district writing scores tanked—again. The kids just don't get what Florida wants!" Sound familiar? That's when I knew [...]
North Carolina's Reading Revolution Starts on Your Walls Picture this: Last Thursday, I walked into Ms. Jenkins' second-grade classroom in Charlotte to find her students literally bouncing with excitement. Why? They'd just decoded a tricky word using their brand-new phonics [...]
Picture this: It's two weeks before Georgia Milestones testing, and your third-graders are staring at their review packets with glazed eyes. Sound familiar? Last spring, I watched Mrs. Rodriguez transform her anxious test-preppers into confident learners using nothing more [...]
