Free Resources

Explore practical tools, trusted professional resources, and emerging ideas for evaluation, student support, behavior systems, and curriculum access. Some resources are original downloadable tools, while others link directly to trusted organizations and official guidance.

Featured Free Resources

A progress chart rising from baseline to a goal marker, beside a present level that leads to an annual goal.
Intervention & IEP Planning Interactive Tool

Intervention & IEP Planning

Two planners, two jobs. The Intervention Goal Builder sets a measurable goal for a tiered intervention. The PLAAFP / IEP Goal Builder drafts a present level and annual goal for a team to review.

Three scores plotted on a normal curve, with the average range shaded blue and an SLD discrepancy range shaded gold below a table value of 84.
Evaluation & Compliance Interactive Tool

Make Scores Make Sense: Assessment Score Explorer

Plot up to eight standard, scaled, T, z, or percentile scores on one normal curve with the publisher's confidence intervals, and choose which layers the chart shows. Turn on the SLD reference to shade the discrepancy range right on the curve, from the 2016 New Mexico regression table or a value from another published chart, labeled as one reference rather than an eligibility rule. Presentation mode steps a family or team through each score. The same page keeps a CHC ability guide, strengths-based report sentences, and the full score conversion table. Print a clean one-page summary or save the chart as an image. Scores stay in the browser tab.

Three practice guides: Understanding CBM with a progress graph, Understanding FBA with a behavior pathway, and Understanding IDEA Evaluation with a checklist.
Professional Guides Original Resource

Evidence-Based Practice Guides

Practical, research-supported references connecting assessment, intervention, behavior, and special education decision-making. I wrote them to show the reasoning behind the tools, not only the tools.

A MAZE reading probe with circled word choices and a math facts probe, on either side of a stopwatch.
Curriculum-Based Measurement Interactive Tool

CBM Probe Generators

Two browser-based tools I built for creating curriculum-based measurement probes on demand. The MAZE Passage Generator builds reading comprehension probes. The Math Probe Builder covers 59 skills, from counting and early numeracy through two-step equations, with practice, skill check, and progress monitoring modes. Nothing is stored and no student data leaves the browser.

Competing behavior pathway diagram preview
PBIS & Behavior Supports Interactive Tool

Competing Behavior Pathway

Map the full behavioral sequence in one view: setting events, antecedent triggers, the problem behavior, and what maintains it. The diagram places the desired behavior and a realistic alternative replacement behavior side by side, so teams can see what they are actually asking the student to do instead. Built for FBA and BIP development, IEP meetings, and MTSS problem-solving conversations. Fill it in on screen, then print or save as a PDF.

Positive Behavior Support Plan builder showing setting event, preventive, teaching, and consequence strategy columns.
PBIS & Behavior Supports Interactive Tool

Positive Behavior Support Plan Builder

Build a complete behavior support plan across four strategy areas: setting events, prevention, teaching, and consequences. Each column offers common evidence-based options to check, plus Other fields for interventions specific to your student and setting. Designed to move teams past a list of consequences and toward a plan that makes the problem behavior irrelevant, ineffective, and inefficient. Print or save as a PDF when finished.

Preview of the Executive Functioning and ADHD Support Checklist pamphlet.
ADHD & Executive Functioning Original Resource

Executive Functioning & ADHD Support Checklist

A practical checklist for identifying organization, planning, task initiation, self-monitoring, and follow-through supports. Two-sided printable pamphlet. Read it on screen, print it as a handout, or download either side.

These materials were developed over a long career in schools and are informed in part by Dr. Russell Barkley's lectures.

Three sensory break tools: a rainbow falling-sand pile, a glowing symmetrical mandala, and a grid of coloured pop-it bubbles.
Sensory & Regulation Interactive Tool

Sensory Break Tools

Three browser tools for a short, contained sensory break. Pour rainbow sand and watch it pile and settle, draw mandalas where every stroke is mirrored around the centre, or work through a pop-it grid that never runs out. Each one has a full-screen mode. Everything runs in the browser: nothing to install, no account, no student data collected. They work on a school Chromebook as they are. Sound is off by default and reduced-motion settings are respected.

REDAssist caseload matrix with fictional students, showing each student's evaluation scope, due date, IEP end date, current phase, and rating-scale returns.
Evaluation & Compliance Interactive Tool

REDAssist: IDEA Compliance Support

The evaluation pipeline I built to run my own caseload. Every student sits in one matrix: evaluation scope, due date, current phase, eligibility, prior written notice, rating scales, and related services. Timelines count themselves down, so nothing slips quietly past a due date. Built around what IDEA actually requires for evaluations, re-evaluations, and exclusionary factor documentation. Try the live demo, or reach out about setting it up for your team.

Trusted External Resources

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NASP Resources

Free school psychology resources for families, educators, and school teams, including guidance on mental health, crisis response, school safety, and student support.

Evaluation & Compliance Trusted External Resource

IDEA & Special Education Resources

Official information related to special education rights, evaluation, eligibility, IEPs, procedural safeguards, and disability education protections.

PBIS & Behavior Supports Trusted External Resource

PBIS.org

Research-based information and implementation guidance for positive behavioral interventions and supports across school settings.

MTSS / RTI Trusted External Resource

CASEL

Resources related to social and emotional learning, school climate, and evidence-informed practices for supporting student development.

Curriculum & Instruction Trusted External Resource

OER Commons

Open curriculum and instructional materials that educators can search, adapt, and use to support teaching and learning.

Curriculum & Instruction Trusted External Resource

IES What Works Clearinghouse

The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) Practice Guides present recommendations for educators to address challenges in their classrooms and schools based on reviews of research.

FINDtheADHDgirls. Unseen No More. Advocating for ADHD Girls.
ADHD & Executive Functioning Trusted External Resource

Identifying Girls with ADHD

Give all girls with ADHD a fair start in life by getting them screened before their 8th birthday.

By Cynthia Hammer, founder of FINDtheADHDgirls.org, Executive Director of the Inattentive ADHD Coalition, author of Living with Inattentive ADHD, and founder and director of ADD Resources for 15 years. Masters Prepared Social Worker.

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