Biblioteca de práctica

Caminos hacia el rol

You're considering becoming a paraprofessional — or you just got hired and want to know what to expect before…

Un día en el trabajo

You're trying to picture what paraprofessional work actually looks like, hour by hour, in your kind of setting…

Requisitos de certificación estatal

You want to know what your state actually requires for paraprofessional credentialing — beyond the federal ESS…

Salario y defensa de tus derechos

You want to understand how paraprofessional pay, benefits, and working conditions actually work — and what ind…

Resumen de IDEA para paras

You work under IDEA every day — and you need a clear sense of the law's promises, your role within them, and w…

ESSA y los requisitos de paras de Título I

You work in a Title I school — and federal law specifies what qualifications you must hold and what you can /…

Resumen de la Sección 504

You support a student with a 504 plan — and 504 is *not* a smaller IEP; it's a different law with different pr…

La ADA en las escuelas

You support students who need physical, communication, or program access — and the ADA reaches further than ID…

Las competencias CEC en la práctica

You want a real professional framework for paraprofessional growth — instead of training on the immediate task…

Acompañamiento y calibración

You're a supervisor giving coaching feedback to paras, or a para wanting more from coaching than 'You're doing…

Normas de comunicación entre para y maestro

Communication with your supervising teacher (or your para) feels inconsistent — and you suspect the actual pro…

Evaluación del desempeño

You're preparing for your annual evaluation — and you want it to actually drive your growth, not just be a for…

Roles de instrucción del para

You do instructional work all day — and you need a clear line between supporting and teaching, with the skill…

Jerarquías de apoyos (prompts)

Prompting is most of what you do — and the difference between skilled and well-intentioned prompting determine…

Cómo retirar los apoyos (prompts)

You prompt students through skills they can't yet do alone — and fading those prompts is where actual independ…

Hojas de programa y fidelidad al procedimiento

You run programs that another adult also runs — and consistency between you is the difference between the prog…

Pensar en función del comportamiento

You're trying to figure out why a student behaves the way they do — and why the answer matters more than the b…

Evaluación funcional del comportamiento

An FBA is happening for your student — and you're going to be a major source of the data the team needs.

Leer y aplicar un BIP

You're being asked to run a Behavior Intervention Plan — and you need to read it the way it's meant to be read…

Estrategias de antecedentes

You want to spend less time managing crises — by changing what happens *before* the behavior, not what happens…

Resumen de tipos de datos

You take data on student goals — and you want to know which type (frequency, duration, latency, intensity, pro…

Registro por intervalos

You're tracking behavior that's hard to count (engagement, vocal stim, on-task) — and you want to know whether…

Datos de nivel de apoyo (prompt)

You're teaching a skill — and you want to track honestly how much help the student actually needed, so the tea…

Registro narrativo ABC

A behavior is puzzling and the team doesn't yet understand it — and you're capturing antecedent-behavior-conse…

Autismo

You support an autistic student — and you need a frame that holds the heterogeneity ("if you've met one autist…

TDAH (ADHD)

You support a student with ADHD — and most of what's hard for them at school is executive function, not motiva…

Trastornos específicos del aprendizaje

You support a student with an SLD — and the umbrella covers dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, language-based…

Dislexia

You support a student with dyslexia — and the right kind of reading instruction (Structured Literacy) makes th…

Guía del paraprofesional de ELL

You support a multilingual student — bilingual para, ESL para, Title I para, or SpEd para with an English Lear…

Paras de Título I y Título III

Your para position is funded by Title I or Title III — and you want to know what that means for your qualifica…

Apoyo a recién llegados

A new student has just arrived in the U.S. — first day, first week, first six weeks of supporting them in your…

Apoyo a estudiantes SLIFE

Your student has had little or interrupted formal schooling — they may be 14 or 16 with minimal literacy in an…

Carta de derechos de comunicación

You support a student with complex communication needs — non-speaking, minimally speaking, or using AAC — and…

Resumen de AAC

Your student uses or is being evaluated for AAC (augmentative and alternative communication) — and you want a…

PECS e intercambio de imágenes

Your student is on PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System) — and you want to be sure you're implementing…

Resumen de tecnología de apoyo

Your student uses assistive technology (AT) — pencil grip to speech-generating device — and you want to suppor…

Intervención temprana

You work in early intervention (birth-3) — and the framework, philosophy, and your role are fundamentally diff…

Primera infancia y prekínder

You work in preschool / pre-K — and resist the urge to make it look like elementary school.

Primaria

You work in K-5 special education — and you need to balance being present enough to support with fading enough…

Rutinas y transiciones

You support students whose hardest moments are transitions — between activities, locations, adults — and most…

Trabajar con el maestro supervisor

You're building the working partnership with your supervising teacher — or you can feel that partnership drift…

Trabajar con el maestro de educación general

You're an inclusion para in someone else's classroom — pushing into gen-ed for part of the day or full-time.

Trabajar con el SLP

Your student receives speech-language services — articulation, language, AAC, social communication, fluency, o…

Trabajar con el OT

Your student receives occupational therapy (OT) services — sensory regulation, handwriting, self-care, executi…

FERPA y confidencialidad

You know things about students that other staff and outsiders don't — and you're navigating the daily risk of…

Reporte obligatorio

You have reasonable suspicion of child abuse or neglect — or you just received a disclosure and you're decidin…

Relaciones duales y redes sociales

Your student is also your neighbor, your colleague is also your church friend — or a student just sent you a s…

Regalos y límites

A family or colleague gave you a gift — and you're trying to figure out whether to accept it, decline it, or e…

Agotamiento y fatiga por compasión

You suspect you're burning out, or you're already over it — and you want recognition signs, what actually help…

Poner límites

You give until there's nothing left — and you want to figure out where the line should be with students, famil…

Planear y documentar el desarrollo profesional

You want professional development that's directed — building toward identifiable competencies — instead of a p…

Comparación de programas de capacitación en crisis

Your district uses CPI, Ukeru, Safety-Care, MANDT, Right Response, TCI, or PCM — and you want to know what the…

Desproporcionalidad en educación especial

Your school has persistent patterns where students of color are over-identified for SpEd, placed in more restr…

Sesgo implícito

You hold egalitarian beliefs and want your daily decisions to match — and you understand that implicit bias op…

Identidad de la discapacidad y lenguaje

You're navigating person-first vs. identity-first language ('person with autism' vs. 'autistic person') and wa…

Receptividad cultural

You support students or families whose cultural background differs from yours — and you want a stance that wor…

Mi primera semana

You're starting as a paraprofessional this week — students you don't know, schedules you don't follow, languag…

Mi estudiante acaba de llegar de otro país

A new student just arrived from another country — limited English, possibly limited records, possibly previous…

Mi estudiante está en crisis ahora mismo

Something is happening right now with your student — escalation, medical emergency, threat, self-harm — and yo…

Cuando el para no está

You're going to be out — planned or unplanned — and you want sub coverage that actually maintains your student…