Nothing to see here. Move along, move along.

With the last few weeks of school approaching, I hope to have to change very little. Things are going quite smoothly over the last few weeks in my class and most of the students know exactly what to expect and are doing a pretty good job of meeting those expectations. One of the things we did at the end of last year and that we are planning to do again this year is a trip to the Arizona Science Center. My kids absolutely loved it last year and it gave them something to work toward and to keep them on track. We went the first week in May last year and I hope to do the same this year. This way, I only have to keep them motivated for 2 weeks afterward, during which time we will be doing quarterly testing and helping them finish up their elective classes.

As for the incentive program, we have a school-wide incentive program that has and continues to work very well. I will definitely tap into that whenever possible. And the good thing is that parents are already aware of the incentive program. The other thing that helps with that is that I have 9 IEP's to complete over the next 6 weeks. That will keep me in contact with over half my parents, in and of itself.