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  • Robbinsdale Elementary School
  • Rapid City, SD
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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We work with special education students in a Title 1 school. Many of these students lack a safe home environment to learn essential life and social skills. They don't learn how to manage their emotions from parents or guardians and are left to figure things out on their own. Unfortunately, the effects of this lack of home education create problems for them in their immediate and future lives. We desire to help our students learn social skills in a fun and safe environment through the use of bibliotherapy and games. We believe that students learn best when they use multiple senses: visual, audio, and kinesthetic. As we read the social stories one-on-one and in small groups, the students follow along. After discussing the stories, students are given opportunities to apply what they have learned with both role-playing and being mindful in real-world situations. As our learning center takes on the role and responsibility of more students with high needs and negative behaviors, we find that we lack the resources to help these students, as well as ourselves, be successful. We continually strive to better ourselves so our students can in turn, better themselves. Moving toward inclusion means we need to be more efficient and effective as we guide our students to live successful lives.

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We work with special education students in a Title 1 school. Many of these students lack a safe home environment to learn essential life and social skills. They don't learn how to manage their emotions from parents or guardians and are left to figure things out on their own. Unfortunately, the effects of this lack of home education create problems for them in their immediate and future lives. We desire to help our students learn social skills in a fun and safe environment through the use of bibliotherapy and games. We believe that students learn best when they use multiple senses: visual, audio, and kinesthetic. As we read the social stories one-on-one and in small groups, the students follow along. After discussing the stories, students are given opportunities to apply what they have learned with both role-playing and being mindful in real-world situations. As our learning center takes on the role and responsibility of more students with high needs and negative behaviors, we find that we lack the resources to help these students, as well as ourselves, be successful. We continually strive to better ourselves so our students can in turn, better themselves. Moving toward inclusion means we need to be more efficient and effective as we guide our students to live successful lives.

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