Position: Special Education Teacher
School District: Amarillo ISD (Texas)
Annika Morris is a Special Education Teacher at Amarillo ISD. Amarillo ISD is a large district in Amarillo, Texas and has over 33,000 students and 2,200 teachers! Mrs. Morris works with students with disabilities and their parents to ensure needs are met in the classroom and the students are prepared for life beyond school. She has been using RethinkEd in her classroom for two years.
RethinkEd has helped Mrs. Morris, her paraprofessionals, and students grow and succeed in the classroom. By utilizing lessons from the lesson library and quick-start data library, Mrs. Morris can create individualized lesson plans and goals. The data sheets and printed lesson plans (in one easy location) help her and the
paraprofessionals in her classroom to work together. Entering data and detailed notes in the RethinkEd app allows for increased collaboration.
Together, Mrs. Morris and her paraprofessionals review the data and determine if the student is generalizing the skills with another teacher in another setting and can visualize how quickly the student can respond. Because the data sheets are easy to read and use, both the teachers and paraprofessionals can efficiently document when working with students.
One of her favorite outcomes of using RethinkEd is that it has resulted in less questions from the paraprofessionals about what they should work on and how they should document what they do. The paraprofessionals feel more successful and in turn are students are more successful!
Mrs. Morris is excited and ready to meet her 2018 Classroom goals using RethinkEd!
