Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

It is important to understand inclusive pedagogies as practices where we discern the nuance between general multicultural education or culturally responsive pedagogy and inclusive practices that specifically address the ability/disability continuum and the health dimension. Support colleagues with disabilities.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2019

Curriculum itself must be personalized in order to truly meet the needs of students with learning disabilities. Curriculum itself must be personalized in order to truly meet the needs of students with learning disabilities. Personalized Learning: Meeting the needs of students with disabilities. Bring on the learning revolution!

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2015

If schools are to meet the learning needs of every student, including those with disabilities, then “we have to think differently about how we provide instruction,” Hill said. have some kind of learning disability, said Kim Hines, associate director for the National Center for Learning Disabilities. million children in the U.S.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 14, 2016

I said that tracking refers to the systematic grouping of students into classes based on their overall achievement. I recently had a reader ask me to clarify the difference between tracking and differentiation. Students grouped for an activity by ability level.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2022

More specifically, the studies reveal that students with disabilities , rural students , and English learners make academic gains at rates equal to or faster than their peers during the academic year but experience greater learning loss when they’re out of school in the summer. The lesson for pandemic recovery is clear.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The first complex challenge the UW College of Education will use AI-human collaboration to tackle is co-creating and co-evaluating Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) for students with disabilities in Wyoming and beyond. Serving as the cornerstone of special education ( Yell et al., under review ).

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

1 Within this larger pool, a core group is considered to have a reading disability or dyslexia. Department of Education’s What Works Clearinghouse for literacy does not contain any study that has a significant positive effect on broad reading achievement for this group. 15 The largest category is learning disabilities, mainly dyslexia.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

For more than a decade, University of Kansas researchers have been developing a virtual reality system to help students with disabilities, especially those with autism spectrum disorder, to learn, practice and improve social skills they need in a typical school day. Right now, the closest we can come to that is training peers.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

In her classroom, she had students with ADHD, ODD, autism, visual disabilities, intellectual delays, and gifted and talented students. Because her class from the previous year was high-achieving, no one expected this new class to achieve the same test scores. Much of that achievement is due to the Chromebooks, Morgan said.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2023

Immersive metaverse learning can help students and teachers to achieve similar benefits without the need to physically experience things in this way. This means that similar learning outcomes can be achieved at any time, even if the conditions are not ideal and if observing something or traveling somewhere is not possible.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In 1990, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) renewed our national focus on the least-restrictive environment. We began providing accommodations through differentiated instruction and teachers figured out what to change or modify to accommodate “disabled” learners.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2016

The series, “Results Matter – Closing the Achievement Gap,” will kick off on Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 1 PM Eastern/10 AM Pacific with “Results Driven Accountability: Where Were We? About “Results Matter – Closing the Achievement Gap” Webinar Series. Where Are We? Where Do We Go Next?”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Frustrations mount as they attempt to manage both instructional requirements and a decrease in achievement from at-risk students. Problems at home can cause sadness or hopelessness, unrealistic expectations can lead to perfectionism and hidden disabilities can cause shame as students fall behind in class.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2015

Understanding Dyslexia is an online program that helps teachers identify students who have dyslexia, a learning disability that affects as much as 10 percent of the population. Dyslexia is a significant obstacle to student achievement in school. The program also explains how to help these students learn to read.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The ADE’s assessment choice supports the Department’s vision of promoting equity for all students to help them achieve their full potential. CogAT was specifically developed to be accessible to the broadest range of students and to ensure the greatest equity with valid and reliable results for identification and placement. .

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

When my district received a letter from the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) telling us that our website was under review for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), we were panicked. AA accessibility.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2022

Finally, educators can serve those with print or reading disabilities effectively via digital audio, and encourage students to spend more time reading by leveraging Sora’s badges and achievements. We host an annual campus-wide contest which challenges students to reach all 30 achievements in Sora.

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eSchool News

JUNE 19, 2018

As educators, we have a responsibility to all students to not only help them achieve academically, but to also prepare them for life as productive, contributing, global citizens. For our students with disabilities, this is a more involved and comprehensive process.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

A new study from the Center on Reinventing Public Education –CRPE–graded these state report cards on how easy it was to find information about student achievement from before COVID to the present day, as well as on their general usability. Achievement is still down from pre-COVID. Chronic absenteeism is still sky high.”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Teachers must employ cultural scaffolding to help diverse students use their backgrounds to enhance academic achievement, including collaborative learning opportunities that empower students to participate actively in decision-making processes. Additionally, deficit thinking by teachers may contribute to misconceptions about students (i.e.,

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

“A disability may be the result of combinations of impairments and environmental barriers , such as attitudinal barriers, inaccessible information, an inaccessible built environment or other barriers that affect people’s full participation in society [i].” of Australian undergraduate students reported having a learning disability.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

“A disability may be the result of combinations of impairments and environmental barriers , such as attitudinal barriers, inaccessible information, an inaccessible built environment or other barriers that affect people’s full participation in society [i].” of Australian undergraduate students reported having a learning disability.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A systematic review of research studies shows preliminary evidence that teacher burnout can impact student achievement and motivation, as well as contributing to teachers leaving the field of education.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2015

If schools are to meet the learning needs of every student, including those with disabilities, then “we have to think differently about how we provide instruction,” Hill said. have some kind of learning disability, said Kim Hines, associate director for the National Center for Learning Disabilities. million children in the U.S.

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eSchool News

JULY 13, 2023

FEV Tutor has a track record of closing equity and achievement gaps for priority and high needs students,” added Tormey. School districts that successfully apply to the program will receive a brief list of vetted and approved tutor providers, including FEV Tutor, as well as grant funds for implementing tutoring services.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2015

Special education programs have been the target of legal challenges on the grounds of discrimination and racial bias, yet the study found that minority children are underdiagnosed across five disability conditions for which U.S. schoolchildren commonly receive special education services. Next page: Additional findings from the study.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2023

To help create a culture of math achievement at North Star, leaders implemented SpringMath , a K–8 math intervention solution, to improve all their students’ math skills school-wide rather than just working with those who needed intervention.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2021

They learned how to look at their data with an equitable lens and created action plans to ensure their practices and programming are meeting the needs of all students, no matter their ethnicity, gender, or disability.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

As I got to know them, I saw that herculean efforts to mask their reading disabilities revealed intelligence, determination, and traumatic relationships to school. As a newly minted middle school English teacher, I was shocked by the number of students who entered my classroom unable to decode text.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Consider processes such as obtaining a 504 plan or an individualized education program (IEP), which removes barriers so that a student with a disability can learn alongside their classmates in general education. It’s infinitely more challenging for the 1 in 5 U.S. residents who speak a language other than English at home.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2023

Immersive, innovation spaces create endless opportunities for students to expand and apply their ideas and offer immeasurable opportunities for accelerating achievement and increasing engagement for students of all backgrounds and abilities. Refocus from strictly “making” to creation and innovation! And what is up with #OwnVoices?

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2022

For many students—particularly those that are historically underserved—the summer break from learning perpetuates inequitable achievement gaps. However, students with disabilities lose more ground every summer, which contributes to widening disparities in achievement. public schools.”. Our children deserve nothing less.”.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Processes for understanding the educational benefit of a particular IEP vary widely, and in many cases include educators printing out IEPs, collecting service records, achievement and behavioral data, and lining them up side-by-side to evaluate whether students made meaningful gains towards their goals.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

The company’s support and accessible technology is designed to accommodate children and adults with special needs and learning disabilities. I strongly believe that together we can achieve more, and I am excited to see what the future holds. .” For more than 40 years, Don Johnston Inc. Since its inception, Don Johnston Inc.

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2019

Some were students with learning disabilities. This way, students can track their own progress and achievements, and teachers can easily monitor and share data. A combination of classroom discussion and repeated reading is a proven strategy for boosting achievement. Related: Teachers: English learners need resources, support.

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English Languages Language Learning Disabilities 195

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

As an education community, we are beginning to understand the depth of the pandemic’s impact, especially on our students of color, our English Language learners and our students with disabilities. But we are also beginning to understand the breadth of connection, growth and networks that we have encountered over the past two years.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Twelve years ago, when I left a career as a lawyer to become a history teacher, my vision of what a “good teacher” looked like was shaped in part by movies, such as “Stand and Deliver” and “To Sir, With Love,” which depict teachers who overcome institutional dysfunction to connect with students and inspire them to achieve their potential.

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