ALIST Spotlight: Keelin DiMuccio, Fairbrook Elementary

With a newly inducted group of fabulous educators to our ALIST this week, we have tons of great resources to share with you. Today we want to shine our ALIST Spotlight on Intervention Specialist Keelin DiMuccio at Fairbrook Elementary in Beavercreek.

We had the pleasure of coaching Keelin this year as she got started with a new classroom of young learners with autism and low-incidence disabilities. Keelin truly rose to the occasion with this new position and we had so much fun coaching someone who was so eager to implement new strategies! Keelin was an excellent collaborator and problem-solver. 

Check out some of the great supports we spotted in action in Keelin's room!

Visual Supports

Keelin used visual supports to help communicate expectations for her students. We love this simple First-Then board for showing a student what work was expected to earn a sensory bin break. 

Keelin also used visual supports to manage student transitions with these great line-up spots.

Data Collection
Keelin is a master data collector! Her monitoring is thorough and comprehensive. We enjoyed sharing our ABC Data Collection sheet to be paired with the Emotion Cue Cards for Staff.

Sensory Supports
Doesn't this calming sensory space look great!? We loved to see how Keelin dedicated a corner of her classroom to providing calming sensory breaks for her students. We also love the options provided of a bean bag break or tent time.

This was a new support for us! Keelin had a student who responded well to a sensory roller at home so she decided to carry over this support in the classroom. What a wonderful way to provide consistent sensory supports across environments.

Keelin did an excellent job differentiating her circle time seating to meet the needs of her students. The adapted seating options included cube chairs, student chairs, rocking chairs, and even a cube chair wrapped in a body sock.

Another tool we helped Keelin with was a sensory choice folder. Sometimes students may be resistant to trying new sensory supports. Providing choices through a sensory choice folder and proactively embedding multiple opportunities to make these choices throughout the day is a great way to keep students regulated.

Thanks to Keelin for sharing all of her awesome supports and welcome to our ALIST!