Hazleton Area School District Special Education and Support Services

It is the Hazleton Area School District's mission to provide meaningful special education services and instructional activities for students with disabilities to help them adequately prepare for their futures as contributing members of our community.

“As teachers of special education let us place the emphasis on the strengths of our students, not the deficit.”

Games

• ABCYA 
• Math playground
• Arcademics
• Read with phonics
• Memory games
• Free rice (vocab game)
• Fun brain
• toytheater (games and great math manipulatives)

Teaching Games for Students to log in Prodigy (Math program/ independent work)

• Teacher
• Student

Whole Group Games

• Kahoot
• Blooket
• drawasaurus.org (drawing game)
• Baamboozle.com  
• Jeopardylabs
• factile

Gamification

• Picker wheel
• Flippity
• Stop watch

Math Activites

Boddle learning (Math program/ independent)

• Teacher
• Student 

        Boom cards

Splash learn (Math program/ independent work)

• Teacher
• Student 

Math and Accounting Activities for Kids ( Special thank you to Julie B. for providing this link. Future educator finding " greenlights" in life!)

https://www.financialforce.com/library/math-and-accounting-activities-for-kids/ 

Printable worksheets

•  Common core sheets (can pull up one at a time to put on a smart board or project)
•  Math-aids.com (click x on the pick a grade pop up)
•  Math-drills.com
• Teachers pay teachers (free & paid sections)
• K12reader.com
• Mystery Science $
• Education.com $
• K5Learning
• Worksheet fun (math)
• softschools
•  Edhelper
•  icivics

PSEA Micro-Credential Library 

The link below contains micro-credential opportunities to earn 48 hours, post-graduate credit, and/or Chapter 14 certificates.

Micro-credential Library

PaTTAN Sessions on Key Special Education Topics 

The following list includes links to videos and resources on important topics in special education and support services.

Teachers' Desk Reference: Preparing for an IEP Team Meeting

PaTTAN Autism Initiative Applied Behavior Analysis Support: Introduction to Teaching Procedures

Utilizing a Behavioral Response Tool: Creating a Plan for Deescalating Student Behavior

Considerations for Students Who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing, or Deaf-Blind

Transition of Preschool Children to School Age Programs

Supporting Students with Disabilities in Virtual Environments (SSDVE)

Collaborating with Paraeducators for Students with Communication Needs

More to Explore

Find additional meaningful videos and resources that pertain to all special education and support services offered by the Hazleton Area School District using the link below. 

Videos and Resources on Special Education and Support Services

Educational YouTube Channels 

• Mr. Nicky (educational raps to popular songs) 
• Mr. Demaio (middle school)
• Pop instrumental (background music)
• Freeschool (elementary)
• Crash course (elementary)

Classroom Resources 

• Basic Tasks in Word
• Basic Tasks in Excel
• Basic Teams
• Using Class Notebook
• Using Class Notebook 2
• Microsoft Forms and Teams
• Polystudio for Hybrid Learning

Additional Informative Resources

·         Tate Kids (Art)

·         Epic (Reading)

·         Commonlit.org (Reading) w/ printables & quizzes

·         Mystery Science w/ printables $

·         Historyshistories.com w/ quizzes

·         CK-12.org (virtual texts)

·         Kidtimestorytime (read aloud videos)

·         Coreknowledge.org (downloadable curriculum)

·         Brain pop w/ printables & quizzes $

·         Brain pop JR w/ printables & quizzes $

·         Flowcabulary w/ printables & quizzes $

·         Readinga-z.com w/ printables & quizzes $

·         Generation genius w/ printables & quizzes $

·         Scholastic (virtual text to pair with magazines) $

·         Kids discover

·         PBS

·         Dog-o-news

·         Watch know learn

·         E-learning

·         Starfall (Virtual calendar -younger)

·         softschools