Sam Parmerlee

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💻| Behavior Consultant 💜 | Trauma Informed 📊 | Data Collector ✏️ | TPT Social Skills Creator
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Sunday thoughts for the week ahead 🤍

#teacher #teachersofinstagram #teachergram #teacherlife #teaching #teachersfollowteachers #behaviormangaement #behavior #behaviorteacher #specialeducation #specialed #sped #spedcommunity #spedteacher #spedlife #behavior #studentbehavior #socialemotionallearning #traumainformed #traumainformedpractices #teachertips 2025-09-22 04:51:28 Sunday thoughts for th.. 91 +1% 0 -100%
I’ve been keeping a secret! 🤫

I’ll be one of the keynote speakers istamembers Good Teaching Conference! ❤️ it should be no surprise to know I’m talking about all things behavior.

Your Brain on Behavior: understanding the brain science behind why students engage in the behaviors they do 🧠

Mark your calendar for Nov. 7 – 8. ISTA’s Good Teaching Conference is back with the theme Grounded in Teaching. United in Purpose. Don’t miss this energizing weekend for ISTA members to connect, learn and grow in the profession. Register today to secure your spot!

Comment ‘conference’ to get the link!

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I talked with Jennifer from spedprepacademy about my favorite topics, the 🧠 and behavior!

💡 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
-Why understanding brain function is essential to supporting behavior
-Why we need to stop asking dysregulated students to “think about their choices”
-How to regulate yourself first, especially in heated moments
-Practical tools for improving staff buy-in to behavior plans
-The CALM technique Sam uses to guide de-escalation
-The difference between responding to behavior vs. reacting to it
🔧 Strategies You Can Use Tomorrow:
-Use the phrase “This behavior is happening in front of me, not to me” to help emotionally detach in the moment.
-Teach your team the CALM acronym: Connect, Affirm, Listen, My Plan.
-Normalize the idea that behavior interventions, like academics, require collaboration, data, and adaptability.
-Provide staff with the tools they need to implement plans—think timers, visuals, checklists.
-Host team discussions that change the narrative around student behavior from “defiance” to “a skill that hasn’t been taught yet.”

Comment ‘podcast’ to get a 🔗 🎙️

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I do really love these 🥹

#teacher #teachersofinstagram #teachergram #teacherlife #teaching #teachersfollowteachers #behaviormangaement #behavior #behaviorteacher #specialeducation #specialed #sped #spedcommunity #spedteacher #spedlife #behavior #studentbehavior #socialemotionallearning #traumainformed #traumainformedpractices #teachertips 2025-09-13 19:06:46 I do really love these.. 131 +45% 0 -100%
Your morning routine in a special education classroom, what does it look like? ☀️ The morning routine sets the tone for the day, creates the climate in the room and can either make or break the beginning of your day. As students come in with the invisible backpack 🎒 of stressors, external factors and the inability to regulate the overwhelming environment they are living in we have to be ready to help them regulate and cope.

When your morning routine is regulating and predictable, student behavior becomes regulating and predictable 🤍

Drop your comments and questions below about the morning routine! 👇🏼

#teacher #teachersofinstagram #teachergram #teacherlife #teaching #teachersfollowteachers #behaviormangaement #behavior #behaviorteacher #specialeducation #specialed #sped #spedcommunity #spedteacher #spedlife #behavior #studentbehavior #socialemotionallearning #traumainformed #traumainformedpractices #teachertips 2025-09-07 02:03:38 Your morn.. 113 +25% 7 -28%
We all have witnessed this moment 😬

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Taylor Swift gets engaged, behavior edition 💍

I wish that behavior plan I created looked at me the same way Travis looks at T. Swift 🥹

#teacher #teachersofinstagram #teachergram #teacherlife #teaching #teachersfollowteachers #behaviormangaement #behavior #behaviorteacher #specialeducation #specialed #sped #spedcommunity #spedteacher #spedlife #behavior #studentbehavior #socialemotionallearning #traumainformed #traumainformedpractices #teachertips 2025-08-27 07:18:01 Taylor Swift gets e.. 242 +169% 1 -90%
📞 📞 📞 Your sped classroom called. It wants you to know it’s functional, supportive and accessible for all students!

#teacher #teachersofinstagram #teachergram #teacherlife #teaching #teachersfollowteachers #behaviormangaement #behavior #behaviorteacher #specialeducation #specialed #sped #spedcommunity #spedteacher #spedlife #behavior #studentbehavior #socialemotionallearning #traumainformed #traumainformedpractices #teachertips 2025-08-26 05:26:03 📞 📞 📞 Your spe.. 49 -46% 0 -100%
My friends Amanda and Danielle from navigatingbehaviorchange did a thing and wrote a book! 🤩 I’ve already been diving in and have loved learning from their behavior brains. If you’re looking for a new read on all things behavior, head to their page to purchase!

#teacher #teachersofinstagram #teachergram #teacherlife #teaching #teachersfollowteachers #behaviormangaement #behavior #behaviorteacher #specialeducation #specialed #sped #spedcommunity #spedteacher #spedlife #behavior #studentbehavior #socialemotionallearning #traumainformed #traumainformedpractices #teachertips 2025-08-24 18:49:42 My friends Amanda .. 138 +53% 5 -48%
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📢 Tag an Indiana educator going through the IEP -> special programs transition! 

#teacher #teachersofinstagram #teachergram #teacherlife #teaching #teachersfollowteachers #behaviormangaement #behavior #behaviorteacher #specialeducation #specialed #sped #spedcommunity #spedteacher #spedlife #behavior #studentbehavior #socialemotionallearning #traumainformed #traumainformedpractices #teachertips 2025-08-18 04:51:46 📢 Tag an Indiana educa.. 93 +3% 9 -7%
Dear special education teacher 💌

#teacher #teachersofinstagram #teachergram #teacherlife #teaching #teachersfollowteachers #behaviormangaement #behavior #behaviorteacher #specialeducation #specialed #sped #spedcommunity #spedteacher #spedlife #behavior #studentbehavior #socialemotionallearning #traumainformed #traumainformedpractices #teachertips 2025-08-06 06:09:48 Dear special education.. 146 +62% 3 -69%
I have 6 to do lists going on in my brain and none of them ever seem to get done 😅

#teacher #teachersofinstagram #teachergram #teacherlife #teaching #teachersfollowteachers #behaviormangaement #behavior #behaviorteacher #specialeducation #specialed #sped #spedcommunity #spedteacher #spedlife #behavior #studentbehavior #socialemotionallearning #traumainformed #traumainformedpractices #teachertips 2025-08-03 20:58:02 I have 6 to do lists g.. 108 +20% 2 -79%
It’s year 11 for me! 💜 New year, same me.. but slightly different role. I’ll be moving from our district’s behavioral consultant to the assistant director of special education for our elementary department! I’m excited for this new adventure, and I’ll still be posting about all my favorite passions on Instagram: special education and behavior!

Year 11 brings 11 intentions I’m focusing on this year:

⭐️ Continue to be an advocate for student’s with challenging behavior.
⭐️ Supporting teachers when the days get challenging.
⭐️ Remind myself in a new role it is ok to be patient and develop solutions and systems over time.
⭐️ Shifting beliefs and philosophies on student deficits and barriers.
⭐️ Move people from admiring the problem to focusing on solutions collaboratively.
⭐️ Get back into running to help clear my mind.
⭐️ Pour into my work community, proactively.
⭐️ Lead people the way I want to be lead.
⭐️Recognize the impact I have on setting the climate and culture in a situation.
⭐️ Help people to recognize their own strengths as educators.
⭐️ Strength based IEPs > deficit based supports 

Tell me below, what year are you in? 👇🏼

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We are talking about clean slates, peeling back the onion layers and positive vibes only in this post for the new school year! ✌🏼💜

Tell me below, which strategy are you focusing on at the beginning of this year? 👇🏼

#teacher #teachersofinstagram #teachergram #teacherlife #teaching #teachersfollowteachers #behaviormangaement #behavior #behaviorteacher #specialeducation #specialed #sped #spedcommunity #spedteacher #spedlife #behavior #studentbehavior #socialemotionallearning #traumainformed #traumainformedpractices #teachertips 2025-07-28 02:10:39 We are talk.. 137 +52% 1 -90%
This hung in my classroom for years. After morning meeting, we said this as a class all together. Why?

▫️Because kids with challenging needs need as much positive encouragement to shift their behavior
▫️Kids with deficits know they have those deficits, and it impacts what they believe about themselves
▫️Kids develop resilience with the more positive people, words and actions we pour into them
▫️A challenging moment doesn’t define your worth as a human being
▫️Positive words become your student’s inner dialogue

Our words we say to kids matter, 🤍

Comment ‘new year’ to get this FREE download for your classroom!

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Let’s talk about naturally reinforcing > transactionally reinforcing!

Listen, hear me out. I love a good incentive chart! However, too often we throw an incentive chart as the band aid 🩹 to the situation and then get frustrated that the behavior isn’t decreasing. And I know why 💡

When we attempt to manage student behavior through a transactional ‘if you do this, then you get this’, what we fail to do is create an environment that is naturally reinforcing for students to WANT to engage. We create a compliance filled system that we are never able to fade back from because the only thing reinforcing is the ‘then you get this’ of the incentive system.

Decreasing behavior isn’t just about the 🥕 however, it is about thinking how the environment can be conducive to the learner to want to engage!

How do you create environments that kids want to engage in?

#teacher #teachersofinstagram #teachergram #teacherlife #teaching #teachersfollowteachers #behaviormangaement #behavior #behaviorteacher #specialeducation #specialed #sped #spedcommunity #spedteacher #spedlife #behavior #studentbehavior #socialemotionallearning #traumainformed #traumainformedpractices #teachertips 2025-07-20 22:09:26 Le.. 82 -9% 3 -69%
De-escalation should always be led with connection. Responding to students with curiosity to connect,

🤍 “What’s going on?”
🤍 “You’ve had a rough day, anything different?”
🤍 “How do you envision me helping you?”
🤍 “Can I just sit here with you?”
🤍 “We can talk whenever you are ready”

When we lead with connection during a student’s most challenging moment, we can guide a student through the challenge with the support and relationship from the adult that they need.

#teacher #teachersofinstagram #teachergram #teacherlife #teaching #teachersfollowteachers #behaviormangaement #behavior #behaviorteacher #specialeducation #specialed #sped #spedcommunity #spedteacher #spedlife #behavior #studentbehavior #socialemotionallearning #traumainformed #traumainformedpractices #teachertips 2025-07-20 18:36:05 .. 39 -57% 0 -100%
Let me collect your behavior data for you 😍

#teacher #teachersofinstagram #teachergram #teacherlife #teaching #teachersfollowteachers #behaviormangaement #behavior #behaviorteacher #specialeducation #specialed #sped #spedcommunity #spedteacher #spedlife #behavior #studentbehavior #socialemotionallearning #traumainformed #traumainformedpractices #teachertips 2025-07-14 04:53:21 Let me collect your be.. 63 -30% 5 -48%
Strength-based intervention > deficit-based mindset! ✨ ⭐️ 💫

#teacher #teachersofinstagram #teachergram #teacherlife #teaching #teachersfollowteachers #behaviormangaement #behavior #behaviorteacher #specialeducation #specialed #sped #spedcommunity #spedteacher #spedlife #behavior #studentbehavior #socialemotionallearning #traumainformed #traumainformedpractices #teachertips 2025-07-13 03:00:51 Strength-based i.. 79 -12% 0 -100%
📢 New blog post out! You are probably reading the title of this blog and saying, ‘yea, Sam, I know kids need breaks. Tell me something new’. You are wondering at what part of this blog are you going to be able to read the revolutionary, ‘life-changing’ strategy to make all those challenging behaviors go away. As we unpack each strategy, I really want you to unpack what you think you know about the strategy and come into it with a fresh lens and perspective. The strategy about breaks isn’t just about scheduling student breaks. It goes deeper than that.

Comment ‘new blog’ to get a link 🔗 to it in your inbox! 📥

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This and…. behavior edition 🙃

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Looking for an easy, efficient way to collect scatterplot data on student’s behavior with google sheets? This user-friendly digital data collection tracker lets you efficiently track student data, automatically calculates percentages, and provides instant progress updates with pre-formatted formulas.

⭐️ WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THIS GOOGLE SHEETS™ DATA TRACKER...

* 1, 2 & 3 Behaviors: A Google Sheet™ that gives you the ability to track data on 1, 2 or 3 target behaviors.
* Color & Black and White: Includes a full color version as well as a black and white one for each sheet.
* Printable: Includes a printable version of each sheet.

⭐️ WHAT DATA DOES IT TRACK?

* Daily Trends: Looks for behavior trends based on the day of the week.
* Time of day: Analyzes what time of day problematic behavior is most likely to happen.
* Weekly Total: Finds the weekly total of maladaptive behavior that has happened for the week.
* Percentages Based on Target Behaviors: Able to find the percentage of each target behavior happening.

Comment ‘Google sheet’ to get a link to it 🔗

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Feel like you have no control during a challenging moment with a student? You have more control than you think. Too often we try and control the behavior of the student, but we really need to control our own behavior to influence the student behavior.

Control our body stance, facial expressions, tone and our words. The way we present to our students during their most challenging times shows our control over ourselves in the situation.

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Breaks are often an overlooking behavioral strategy because circumventing challenging behavior goes way deeper than just, ‘give them a break’!

Comment below, what are your barriers when thinking about breaks as a proactive strategy? 👇🏼 let’s chat!

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