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01/07/2026

🎉✨ Ringing in 2026 with learning and fun in Ms. Makayla’s class! ✨🎉

Ms. Makayla’s class celebrated the New Year with festive 2026 crowns and an exciting balloon drop! 🎈 For reading, students reviewed letters and sounds using a Jack Hartman video, then practiced identifying the letters in their names with a hands-on craft. To support accessibility and accommodate vision loss, letters for students' names were lined with puff paint, allowing them to feel the form of each letter as they worked.

During math, students used a 2026 snack mat to practice counting and number recognition! 🔢🍿

What a joyful way to kick off the year with meaningful, multi-sensory learning! 💙

01/06/2026

Our 2nd shift residential team proudly wore their matching sweatshirts — a special gift from our administrators before we left for Christmas break. 🎄🧥

This simple gesture meant so much and was a beautiful reminder of how valued and appreciated our staff truly are. We’re so grateful for this dedicated team and the care they show to our residential students every day. 💙👏

01/05/2026

💙📚 In Mrs. Rochelle’s Library and Braille classes, learning comes to life through hands-on, multi-sensory activities that strengthen skills, boost confidence, and connect learning to real-world experiences ✋✨📖

01/04/2026

Sometimes the most meaningful learning moments aren’t planned.

When a student didn’t know what a snow angel was during a recent Morning Meeting “Would You Rather?” question, Nikki Grace jumped right in and modeled it by pretending to make a snow angel on the floor. This provided a clear demonstration to support understanding. ❄️👼

Through peer modeling and movement-based instruction, students strengthened vocabulary, concept comprehension, and social communication skills. These authentic, student-led moments support deeper learning and connection. 🤍📚🤝✨

Moments like this remind us that learning is everywhere — what unexpected learning moments have you seen lately? ❄️✨

01/04/2026

During Ag recently, Grey worked alongside our groundskeeping crew to clean up leaves around campus 🍂. Ms. Rachel and the Ag students then put those leaves to good use—mulching plants and adding them as an important component of our compost piles. A great example of teamwork, sustainability, and hands-on learning in action!

01/02/2026

Creativity, craftsmanship, and career skills — year round! 🎨🦅

Our Emerging Eagles don’t just make t-shirts — they also create custom door hangers, wreaths, and fabric swags for our school shop, Eagles Landing.

Students stain or paint wooden door hangers, add vinyl designs, bows, and floral elements, transform wreath frames with mesh to produce seasonal or custom designs, and create fabric swags by tying colorful strips of fabric onto twine to make unique, customized pieces. 🌸🎀🧵🍂

These projects provide hands-on opportunities to develop fine motor skills, sequencing, artistic design, teamwork, problem-solving, and vocational readiness, while giving students pride in producing high-quality items for a real workplace setting. ✨📚🤝

Combined with our DTF t-shirts, these projects allow students to experience multiple steps of the creative and production process, from design conception to the finished product ready for display or sale.

Which of these creations would you love to see in your home or office? 🏡🎀🧵

01/01/2026

Happy New Year! 🎉

As we step into a new year, we do so with renewed hope, purpose, and gratitude. A new year brings fresh beginnings, new opportunities to learn and grow, and a continued commitment to supporting every student as they soar in their own unique way.

We look forward to all that this year will hold and are thankful to walk this journey alongside our students, families, staff, and community. May the year ahead be filled with growth, connection, and moments that matter.

Wishing everyone a joyful and bright New Year’s Day as we begin this new chapter together. ✨

12/31/2025

As the year comes to a close, we pause with grateful hearts. This year brought growth, challenges, perseverance, and countless moments of joy within our school family. Each day was shaped by the resilience of our students, the dedication of our staff, and the unwavering support of our families and community.

Today, we reflect on all that has been accomplished and look ahead with hope and purpose. May the new year bring continued growth, fresh opportunities, and even more moments that remind us why the work we do matters so deeply.

Wishing everyone a safe, peaceful, and joyful New Year’s Eve as we prepare to welcome a new year together. ✨

12/30/2025

Spreading holiday cheer through reading and creativity! 🎄✨

One of our elementary students, Lauryn, paid a special visit to our PreK classroom to read How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The PreK students loved hearing the story and getting into the holiday spirit! 📚💚

After the story, the students expressed their creativity by painting their very own Grinch masterpieces, practicing fine motor skills, color recognition, and self-expression. 🖌️🎨

Moments like this build literacy, social connections, and artistic skills, all while celebrating the joy of the season. ❄️💫

Who else loves seeing the Grinch come to life through students’ creativity? 💚✨

12/29/2025

🎁✨ We found a few more sweet moments from our school gift opening, and they were just too special not to share. 💙

From smiles of surprise to quiet moments of pride and joy, these photos capture the heart of the season—connection, generosity, and the simple happiness of being together. Our students were surrounded by love and kindness, and it showed in every reaction.

We are so grateful for everyone who helped make these moments possible and for the memories our students will carry with them long after the wrapping paper is gone. 💫

12/28/2025

📺🎄 If you weren’t able to join us for our Christmas program on the day of the performance, you can still experience it! ✨

Our program was live streamed, and the full video is available to watch anytime right here on our page. We invite you to go back, watch, and enjoy the hard work, joy, and holiday spirit our students and staff poured into this special celebration.

Thank you for supporting our school and celebrating the season with us—near or far. ❤️

12/27/2025

Sweet teamwork and hands-on learning! 🍬🏠✨

Just before winter break, Mrs. Maddison and Ms. Shelby’s classes joined forces to build a Gingerbread House, and the results were both creative and educational.

Students worked together to plan their design, practice fine motor skills while assembling and decorating the house, and make thoughtful choices about colors, patterns, and placement. They also strengthened communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills along the way. 🎨🤝

Activities like this turn festive fun into meaningful, skill-building experiences, allowing students to explore creativity while practicing important academic and social skills. ❄️🍭

What’s your favorite part of decorating a gingerbread house? 🏠✨

Address

1101 Fort Lashley Avenue
Talladega, AL
35160

Telephone

(256) 761-3251

Website

https://www.aidb.org/hks

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