Supportable Solutions

01/06/2026

My all time favorite book. So excited for the second edition.

12/18/2025

Book club, winter edition 📖

If you’ve been wanting space to talk honestly about neurodiversity-affirming practices in schools—this is it. We’re reading Neurodiversity Affirming Schools and meeting on Zoom for thoughtful, practical conversations.

Join us: https://supportablesolutions.com/book-clubs/

12/06/2025

Grateful for the opportunity to share this space and this work. Thank you to the Autism Society of Greater Wisconsin for the invitation and the trust. 💛

We are proud to announce Connie Persike as our Saturday Keynote Speaker for our 37th Annual Statewide Autism Conference!
In her engaging and reflective presentation, "Understanding Behavior, Building Unity" she will offer opportunities to examine our own triggers, stressors, and the behaviors we tend to show when each protective pathway becomes the dominant driver. Understanding our own patterns builds compassion not only for the children we support, but also for ourselves and one another. This keynote helps participants reframe behavior as a universal stress response. They’ll explore how stress can make protective pathways like fight, flight, or freeze become the primary pathway guiding behavior, and how these patterns show up differently across people.
Unity grows when every role, family, school, and community, works from this shared understanding.
Visit our website to learn more or register: https://bit.ly/WIAutism2026

11/27/2025

A Moment of Gratitude

To the districts and school teams who invite Supportable Solutions into your communities… thank you. Trust is something we never take lightly, and we’re honored every time you let us partner with you to support your students, staff, and families.

To the families who share their stories and let us walk alongside you… thank you for your openness and willingness to work together.

And to the incredible allies - educators, specialists, leaders, caregivers, advocates who stand with us in this work… your dedication makes everything possible. When we work together, students feel safer, more understood, and more connected. That’s the goal every single day.

Here’s to continuing this work with gratitude, collaboration, and so much respect for the people who make it meaningful. 💙

11/25/2025

I’m grateful to be part of this year’s Autism Society Greater Wisconsin conference. I’ll be joining as a keynote alongside Dr. Robert Naseef, and I’m really looking forward to learning with everyone!

If you plan to attend, I’d love to connect in person.

Register now!

Registration for our 2026 Annual Autism Conference is now open!

In collaboration with the Autism Society of South Central Wisconsin, we are hosting our 37th annual Autism Conference at the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells on April 23-25, 2026. Join us for 3 days of learning, networking, and connection with other Autistic folks, families, educators and professionals as ideas and resources are shared. Hear from our amazing keynote speakers, Robert Naseef and Connie Persike as they share their knowledge and experiences!

More information about the conference, our speakers, and special events can be found on our website: www.autismgreaterwi.org/2026-annual-conference

We can't wait to see you there!

11/14/2025

When teams use the same process to understand behavior, everything changes.

The Why Toolkit® creates a shared language across educators — helping them reflect, analyze, and plan together.

Schools using it district-wide report greater clarity and stronger team alignment.

The Why Toolkit™️ is a tool built for teachers, parents, and administrators that can both assess and support individuals struggling with behaviors.

11/10/2025

Clarity isn’t just for academics - it’s for behavior, too.

As we have been conducting observations for behavior audits, one thing keeps standing out: teachers are clear when it comes to academics. They share what success looks and sounds like and guide students toward it - but that same clarity isn’t always applied to classroom expectations.

Fisher, Frey, and Hattie’s work on teacher clarity shows the impact of clearly defining and modeling success criteria for academic learning - principles that can also strengthen classroom behavior expectations.

Behavior is learned the same way as academics. When we define and model what success looks like - in ways that honor each learner - we create the clarity and safety every classroom needs.

11/08/2025

The Why Toolkit® is a guided assessment and support plan that helps school teams move from reacting to student behavior to understanding it.

It walks educators step-by-step through gathering essential information — across developmental, relational, environmental, and nervous-system factors — to uncover the why behind behaviors and develop individualized support plans rooted in neuroscience and relationships.

Get more info here:

The Why Toolkit™️ is a tool built for teachers, parents, and administrators that can both assess and support individuals struggling with behaviors.

10/21/2025

Our next Book Club is about to begin!

If you’ve been wanting to dive into Neurodiversity-Affirming Schools, now’s your chance to read, reflect, and connect with others who care about transforming practice for every learner.

💬 We’ll meet on Zoom
🕒 Tuesdays 3:45–4:30 pm CT

Reserve your spot today!

supportablesolutions.com/book-clubs

10/10/2025

My copy of Your FBA is a Fantasy by Rick and Doris Bowman arrived!! Thank you Doris Miller Bowman!

The Bowmans bring trauma-informed and neuroscience-aligned perspectives to the way we understand and support behavior—challenging the idea that behavior is simply about “function” and instead helping us see it through the lens of connection, safety, and the nervous system.

It was an honor to endorse such an important contribution to our field.

10/06/2025

📚 Last Call to Join!

Registration for our upcoming The Way of Play book club closes Monday at noon!

If you’ve been thinking about joining, now’s the time!

We’ll meet on Zoom to explore how little moments of big connection help raise calm and confident kids.

💻 Register here: https://supportablesolutions.com/book-clubs/

10/02/2025

We often rush to explain behavior as “misbehavior” or “acting out.” But behavior is not random — it’s the output of our autonomic state, the nervous system’s way of responding to what it detects.

Through neuroception, the nervous system is constantly scanning the environment for cues of safety or danger. That process is influenced by biology, temperament, lived experience (including trauma), culture, and neurology, and it’s always responding to what’s happening around us.

When one pathway becomes primarily activated, the other pathways are still active in the background and continue to influence behavior. What we see are outputs of autonomic state — responses that reflect the whole system at work.

Adaptive capacity is the nervous system’s ability to adjust as conditions change — for different pathways to take the lead when needed and then rebalance.

As educators, our role is to notice these behavioral signals and offer co-regulation, helping students return to safety so learning can take place.

📖 Citation:
Porges, S. W. (2025). Polyvagal theory: A journey from physiological observation to neural innervation and clinical insight. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 19, 1659083