eSchool News

MAY 26, 2017

Art for Students with Autism. Art therapy helps students with autism target imagination and abstract thinking, sensory integration and regulation, emotion and self-expression, developmental growth, visual-spatial skills, and recreation and leisure skills. “As Music for Students with Autism. About the Presenters.

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eSchool News

JULY 6, 2022

The differences were quite pronounced, equating to about five months of learning in math and 11 months—more than a full school year—in English language arts. Students from low-income families, those with disabilities, and English language learners were disproportionately affected.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 4, 2022

students use advanced sensors and software to manage and monitor a state-of-the-art hydroponic growing facility and greenhouse. At San Andreas High School in San Bernardino, Calif., They document their processes using smartphones, tablets and video editing software.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2025

A lot of them wanted an art club. Over the past two years, Engage IRL has been the catalyst for increasing access and opportunities for K-12 students to participate in clubs, sports, arts activities, and other community events. Engaging with students was a top priority for workgroup members.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2015

Can playing a game help students—especially those with disabilities or special needs—improve their behavior, learn empathy, and increase academic performance? The founder of gaming monolith Electronic Arts thinks so, and he’s not alone. “A Research suggests that social and emotional learning can lead to achievement gains.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2019

Sometimes it’s about empathy —or in the case of some of the latest research coming out of Johns Hopkins, it’s about understanding how art plays a role in learning. EdSurge sat down with Hardiman recently to learn about the Initiative’ recent findings around how injecting art into lessons across disciplines can boost memory and retention.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Black/African American students, Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx students, and Native American/Alaskan students are less likely to attend a high school that offers foundational computer science.

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eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2016

The Common Core app organizes the Common Core standards by subject area (math traditional, math integrated, language arts, history/Social Studies, and science and technology) and grade level. This particular app seems to include more resources for the primary grades and contains more extensive mathematics than English Language Arts resources.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2023

It was a normal-looking school newsletter: a three-page PDF with information about upcoming events, decorated with colorful clip art of flowers. A document like that can be completely unreadable for a parent or guardian with a disability. That same PDF file can be even harder to navigate for a parent or guardian who’s disabled.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

For the center’s report, researchers set out to find information in each state about student achievement in English language arts, math, science, and social studies, as well as student growth–or the progress students made year over year–in English and math.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

We want all children to attend a public school where there is a nurse, the arts, band, orchestra, novels, field trips, technology and daily classes in the “untested subjects” (such as science and social studies). Charter schools have been known to cherry pick students by race, class and even disability levels. What do teachers want?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The year before the pandemic, 22% of students in the district met or exceeded Illinois’ English language arts standards, while 16% cleared that bar in math. At the beginning, we were: No, no, no, no, no,” said Marisa Mills, the president of Cicero’s teachers union and a seventh grade English language arts teacher at Unity Junior High.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

Undergraduate education offers a key opportunity for recruiting students from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic, gender, and disability groups into computing. Another strategy is drawing computer science back into the liberal arts , to better root technology in disciplines like history and sociology that explore social issues.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

became the first in the country to install a high-tech, state-of-the-art virtual gym , complete with camera sensors and stereo sound, 3D projectors and other gaming accessories, according to Philadelphia’s ABC news affiliate, WPVI-TV. . VR Exercise Games Tackle Obesity and Aid the Disabled.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 8, 2024

Together, they’ll support New York school districts in providing an on-the-job delivery pathway for Mercy’s Bachelor of Science in Teaching Students with Disabilities, B-12 program, to bring more highly qualified special education teachers into New York classrooms.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

I’m a special education teacher serving students in a self-contained class, and all of my students have moderate to severe learning disabilities including ADHD, intellectual disabilities, emotional disabilities, specific learning disabilities and autism spectrum disorder.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

The new programs also have increased training for leading special student populations, including students with disabilities, English language learners and early childhood students. On the 2015 AzMERIT statewide benchmark exam, only 2 percent of ELLs passed the language arts section, and 6 percent passed the math section of the exam.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Ring said computer coding is more aligned with the liberal arts than computer science. Janet Adkins — the House sponsor — argues the legislation will also have broader effects by helping children who have dyslexia or mental disabilities, which make it difficult to learn global languages. In my mind, I think yeah,” Ring said.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2021

Through research and evaluation, psychologists in the 1970s and ’80s sought to develop a new framework to stop over-identifying students as disabled. Serve the needs of students who required more instruction to succeed but did not necessarily display a learning disability.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2019

Some efforts to foster neurodiversity on campus build on programs college administrations have long bolstered, like offices for disability services. I think increasingly there’s an awareness of having an inclusive academic environment on a liberal arts campus is a better way going forward.” Changing language reflects this shift.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Dually certified in special education and English Language Arts, I teach an ELA inclusion class to 11th and 12th graders, which means I serve students with and without Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) in the same setting. This is my third year teaching at William Penn High School in the Colonial School District in New Castle, Delaware.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

Whether it’s state-of-the-art whiteboards or interactive displays , the world of digital technology in the classroom is the next wave of classroom instruction. Listen to their ideas and concerns, and check in regularly as the new technology is deployed. Is your district ready to take the next step?

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

was free, and people had to pay at least $20 a month to get access to the state-of-the-art model. On a positive note, such tools could greatly assist students with learning disabilities. Maybe,” he says, “this time we’ll realize that the liberal arts really do matter.” Previously, only an older version of the tool, GPT-3.5,

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2022

Schmedlen currently serves on the Board of Governors of JA Worldwide; the Board of Advisors at the mEducation Alliance; and the Board of Directors of the Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts. Texthelp believes in a world where difference, disability or language are no longer barriers. Dr. Schmedlen earned a B.A.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2024

Content-Based Literacy Recommended Resources Imagine Learning EL Education : Discover ELA with heart — Imagine Learning EL Education is the content-based English language arts program rooted in the science of reading for grades K–8. Imagine Learning EL Education is science-backed and heart-driven.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2020

When parents question things like assignments, or the practice of teaching that they see through their lenses, they may not be aware of the overall state of the class, or the range of abilities, disabilities, interests and considerations that go into the planning and teaching.” See also: Want to Show Teachers You Appreciate Them?

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

As the meeting progressed, I learned that she was expressing similar behaviors in her history class, but not her math, science or art classes. I’m a ninth grade English teacher at Collier and all of my students are classified with a disability and have an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) that qualifies them for special education services.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 4, 2019

K–12 teachers desiring to create a classroom where all students have an equal opportunity to learn, may overlook certain physical and digital barriers impede students with disabilities to fully engage. The physical layout of a classroom can make all the difference for a successful learning experience.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

EdSurge talked with Taylor about what makes reading a visually unnatural activity, why reading inefficiency isn’t a learning disability, and how early intervention can increase fluency and foster joy in reading. these reading skills don't correlate with intelligence, and reading inefficiently isn't a learning disability.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2024

Programs that help establish community support and participation include “Fuertes Together,” a partnership with the public library where families can hear stories in Spanish and English and engage with cultural music, dance and art. In my first grade classroom I only had one classmate that was bilingual.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2018

The tools span everything from music to time-saving shortcuts and supports for struggling students or those with learning disabilities. Using the Bitmoji Chrome extension , Minicozzi plopped it into a Google Doc, added word art—“Great Work,” “A+,” “Good Thinking”—to create feedback posters.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

With art supplies and worksheets strewn about, and her headphones off most of the time because she found them “tight,” we thought nothing of it — this was remote learning as we knew it. Despite the funding, nearly all states have had trouble hiring for open special education positions to meet the needs of their students, according to the U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2020

Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, in a terrace-level room overlooking the Potomac River, more than 20 leaders from the Education Department, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and various states, startups, nonprofits and universities spoke about the importance of early education and the role of technology in it.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2018

But this time the company disabled the “share” feature—a key component of the service. It showed 7,200 results for English Language Arts, and now shows about 8,300. Then in July 2017 Amazon tried again, announcing a public beta version of Inspire.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Given how participating students have bolstered their foundational reading skills in Massachusetts and nationally with Ignite Reading, we are optimistic that this program will supercharge literacy progress in Fall River,” said Stephanie Kennedy, Director of English Language Arts K-12 of Fall River Public Schools. Of all students, 23.1%

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Tract makes this process intuitive, easy, and satisfying: “The engagement levels are so high, even amongst some of my most challenging students and those who have learning disabilities…we are now going to be doing Tract Tuesday – our version of 20% Time, where their program can be dedicated to Tract for half of the day.”

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