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This Neuroscientist Wants to Know Your Brain On Art—and How It Improves Learning

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But studying how the brain learns doesn’t necessarily mean memorizing proteins and brain chemistry. 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. How does that map into objectives?

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Accessibility Tools Can Be Transformative for Some Students. But at What Cost?

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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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Reading Is Visually Unnatural—Here's How to Help Students Who Struggle

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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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Where Does Personalized Learning End and Special Education Begin?

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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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Students Are Slipping Through the Cracks of Special Education. Schools Must Do Better.

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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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How to Bring to Life the Science of Reading

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Imagine Learning EL Education is science-backed and heart-driven. 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.

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Latest AI Announcements Mean Another Big Adjustment for Educators

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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.”

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