This is the one part of my classroom that is not for my students. It’s for my staff, and it’s essential to keep us running. It stores important information and supplies that we use regularly.
The first portion of the board is our IEP Goals bulletin board. I love that I made this. It’s super simple to pull together. To maintain confidentiality, no student names appear. There is a piece of colored duct tape for each student up on the board. I wrote their IEP goals in VERY basic terms (i.e., 2-step word problems, matching non-identical pictures) on index cards. I used push pins to hold them up. I chose push pins so I could reuse the cards. There is a good chance that another student in the future might have a similar goal, so I want to save the cards.
When my assistants sit with students at the back table, they can quickly look up and see what we are working on. This is not a full list of goals. I did not include communication, behavior or complex goals like writing a detailed paragraph and inference goals. The goals listed here are much more fluency based or basic skills easy for an assistant to run. My post yesterday talks about the colorful bins below. My assistants can pull materials from there to work on the goals.
This second board is the “What Are We Learning” board. To keep it easy on myself, I just use the anchor charts from The Autism Helper year long curriculum. As I mentioned in this blog post, we use the Math, Science, Language Arts and Social Studies curriculum. I have kids on several levels but the majority of my students are on Level 1, so I just hang that set up. I love that my assistants always feel confident in knowing what we are working on in our core subjects.
The last portion is our book reviews. I’m working on making them more pretty so I can post them as a freebie in my store. When they are up, I will come back and link them here. I like to let my students check out books from the library or choose one from my big bin for us to read as a class. We fill out simple book reviews afterwards and hang them here. 
Underneath the bulletin board are storage bins with some essentials. As you can see, my assistant made little labels. Sometimes my labels are beautiful and color coordinated. Sometimes they are just functional. Whatever works! I keep essentials here. I buy a lot of puzzles and cards from The Dollar Store and the Target Dollar Spot and store them here. They are cheap and perfect for some independent work skills.
I have other essentials too. I use sand times, snap cubes, clocks, and calculators. We keep some magnetic letters and counting teddy bears in these, as well as stickers and wooden shapes. It is just nice to have these materials easily accessible when we need them.
The last portion actually hangs over my computers. It’s the “Look What We Did” section and it’s super cute. We use the Easy Art pack from Teaching Special Thinkers. This seriously is one of the best purchases I have EVER made on TPT. With her help, I now have an adapted art class running in my classroom every week. Each month has 9 different crafts. We open up the file at the end of every month. My class gets to vote on the crafts (one for each week and an extra craft that we will squeeze in). We vote on all the crafts and choose the top 5. After school that day, I spend no more than 20 minutes printing and sorting the art projects. Just like that, my art is planned for a whole month. I can’t believe I didn’t use this pack before this year; it’s truly fantastic!
Check back tomorrow for a look at my monthly storage. I will be linking to all the different thematic products I will be using during the month of January in my classroom!