Creating a Ready-to-Learn Classroom: Sensory, Regulation, and Social-Emotional Supports
Ariana Borreggine
ID-3920
School Name:Bear Creek Elementary School
Grant Request Grade:K-5
Grant Request Subject:Special Needs Students
Additional Details
The goal of this project is to provide K–5 students in our intensive behavior program with sensory, movement, self-regulation, and social-emotional supports that increase their ability to successfully access instruction. Students in our program have diverse behavioral, sensory, communication, and social-emotional needs that can impact attention, regulation, transitions, and participation in learning. By providing a variety of movement-based seating options, sensory supports, noise-reduction tools, visual timers, and social-emotional learning resources across our Cub Crew classrooms, students will have access to individualized strategies that support engagement, self-regulation, and greater independence throughout the school day.
Students will be explicitly taught how to identify their emotions, recognize when they need additional support, and appropriately use sensory, movement, and self-regulation strategies. Resources will be distributed across our K–5 Cub Crew classrooms based on student and classroom needs. Movement-based seating supports will provide appropriate opportunities for movement while students participate in instruction. Noise-reduction headphones, sensory tools, and visual timers will provide additional options for supporting attention, transitions, and independent work. Breathing tools, emotion-identification materials, and social-emotional books will be incorporated into individual, small-group, and whole-group instruction to help students recognize and communicate emotions and practice appropriate regulation strategies. Students will be taught how and when to use each resource appropriately so the materials support continued participation in the learning environment.
Students in the Cub Crew program have a variety of sensory, behavioral, communication, and self-regulation needs that can affect their ability to remain engaged and successfully participate in instruction. Providing multiple types of movement, sensory, and self-regulation supports allows students to access strategies that meet their individual needs rather than relying on a single approach. These resources will support attention, participation, independence, transitions, and access to instruction throughout the school day. Because the materials will be distributed across our K–5 Cub Crew classrooms, approximately 30 students across multiple grade levels will benefit from these supports.
Grant funds will be used to purchase movement-based seating supports, sensory tools, noise-reduction headphones, visual timers, and social-emotional learning resources for approximately 30 students in the K–5 Cub Crew ESE program. Requested materials include chair-based movement supports, active seating cushions, sensory and tactile materials, breathing and emotion-identification tools, and social-emotional literature. Materials will be distributed across Cub Crew classrooms based on student and classroom needs and will be used during academic instruction, independent work, transitions, and social-emotional learning activities. Funding will expand the range of supports available to students and help create classroom environments that promote engagement, independence, self-regulation, and successful participation in learning.
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