eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In my first-grade classroom, a third of my students were learning English as a second language. Though my English learners were the initial reason I starting using closed-captioning on videos, I soon realized that students with special needs also benefited. I used closed-captioning with BrainPop Jr. Evaluating accessibility.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In real life, curb cuts on sidewalks are intentionally designed for people with disabilities. It has been shown that dual-language learning leads to developmental gains for English language learners (ELLs). is raised in a family where English is not the primary language spoken at home, and this number continues to grow.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

In fact, the National Education Association found nearly every general classroom across the country includes at least one student with a disability. Students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder can be easily distracted, making it hard for them to finish homework and other tasks. Over the past 10 years, the number of U.S.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

That’s been the experience of Bill Bass, a former English teacher who now serves as an innovation coordinator at a school district in St. If a teacher brings a tool to [a district], they should pay attention. Bill Bass, innovation coordinator and former English teacher Who Gets a Say? Louis, Missouri.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

At a morning session on Sunday, Kentaro Yoshifuji, CEO of Ory Lab , shared how a robot his company has developed is helping people with disabilities connect with friends, family and teachers when it’s difficult or near impossible for them to be physically present with peers. Robots don’t generally elicit warm, friendly emotions.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

Sadie had been struggling in my English class too, but not in these ways. 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. I was baffled. So, What’s Alternative About Our School?

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

Elevating Engagement Engagement is an important factor driving retention in online classrooms; furthermore, dynamic environments capture the attention of students, ensuring greater dedication to learning. Transcriptions ease and enable learning for many students with disabilities. Huang et al. Literacy Today (2411-7862) 41 (1): 5458.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Teaching kids to read with good accuracy in English takes several years. I believe we’ll see increased attention to students’ mental health and, with it, an increase in the attention paid to the mental health crisis and severely limited resources in our schools.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

NCTQ also examined whether these tests devote undue attention to methods of reading instruction that have been debunked by research and can hinder students from becoming strong readers, such as three-cueing. Additionally, NCTQ checked whether these tests combine reading with other subjects.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

It has disabled our education system, creating challenges to educational access, barriers to student academic progress and strains on teachers’ and students’ physical and emotional well-being. Attention feels more frayed and fragile during live video lessons for all of us. You can read part one here. Let’s be frank.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

We also learned where the new curriculum requirements will complement current efforts and where they’ll require more focused attention on the part of district administrators. So, I think the state mandate around LGBTQIA and disability resources is really timely, considering the work we’re already doing.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Already, it’s caught the attention of investors, who just this March injected $5.6 While researchers are torn on the exact reasons for these differences, they are likely a "product of reading disability rather than a cause," Kirkby says.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

Elevating Engagement Engagement is an important factor driving retention in online classrooms; furthermore, dynamic environments capture the attention of students, ensuring greater dedication to learning. Transcriptions ease and enable learning for many students with disabilities. Huang et al. Literacy Today (2411-7862) 41 (1): 5458.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2019

Around 6 o’clock on a fall morning in 2018, Jordan sat down at her desk, donned her headset, and logged in to her account with VIPKid , a Beijing-based company that connects native English-speaking teachers like her with children in China for live, online video lessons. Then the marathon began. I felt that it was abusive,” Mindy says.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Using Wakelet, school librarians can work with librarians in their district–or even across the state or country–to draw attention to important resources in the library, offer research tips, and motivate students. Translation technologies can be included for students and parents whose native language is not English.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2020

And Emmons, who teaches English as a Second Language, messaged the parents of stragglers using the text translation app Remind. Keeping the youngest students — who typically have the shortest attention spans — on track academically is difficult. She and her co-teacher watched sleepy children appear on screen, one by one.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2020

And Emmons, who teaches English as a Second Language, messaged the parents of stragglers using the text translation app Remind. Keeping the youngest students — who typically have the shortest attention spans — on track academically is difficult. She and her co-teacher watched sleepy children appear on screen, one by one.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2020

And Emmons, who teaches English as a Second Language, messaged the parents of stragglers using the text translation app Remind. Keeping the youngest students — who typically have the shortest attention spans — on track academically is difficult. She and her co-teacher watched sleepy children appear on screen, one by one.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

However, these old-fashioned assessment techniques often create new barriers to learning, especially for disabled students, English language learners, neurodiverse students, and any other students that rely on technology to aid their thinking, communication, and learning.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

However, these old-fashioned assessment techniques often create new barriers to learning, especially for disabled students, English language learners, neurodiverse students, and any other students that rely on technology to aid their thinking, communication, and learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 24, 2019

Students in Vietnam and China link up with online English tutors in the US and the UK to learn English like natives. You improvise for each student – according to their educational goals, their learning styles, their academic capacities, and maybe their learning disabilities.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

As these tools become more integrated into the classroom, teachers will want to ensure that all students, including those with disabilities or language barriers, are being supported. And thirdly, we believe that there will be more urgent attention paid to professional development for K-12 educators.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2019

But if you have maybe a learning disability, you don't speak English as well as others or your achievement has not been the same, arts gives these children multiple ways to express what they know. What else are you paying attention to that's happening in this field right now? (7) You can learn the way your teacher teaches you.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2024

For example, our pre-service teachers are learning how to use AI programs, such as Mizou and Reading Coach to create lesson plans, to learn how to reach their English language learners, and how to create hands-on activities that allow students to apply what they have learned.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

And Emmons, who teaches English as a Second Language, messaged the parents of stragglers using the text translation app Remind. Keeping the youngest students — who typically have the shortest attention spans — on track academically is difficult. She and her co-teacher watched sleepy children appear on screen, one by one.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

And Emmons, who teaches English as a Second Language, messaged the parents of stragglers using the text translation app Remind. Keeping the youngest students — who typically have the shortest attention spans — on track academically is difficult. She and her co-teacher watched sleepy children appear on screen, one by one.

Disabilities 60

Disabilities Students Languages Language 60

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2024

For example, our pre-service teachers are learning how to use AI programs, such as Mizou and Reading Coach to create lesson plans, to learn how to reach their English language learners, and how to create hands-on activities that allow students to apply what they have learned.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2017

Burton: My mother was an English teacher. And that’s when my attention began to shift away from the clergy and theology to story telling and performing arts. And what Nichelle Nichols meant to you, as an African American—you then extended to people with disabilities, when you joined the crew of “Next Generation.” To parents.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

As these tools become more integrated into the classroom, teachers will want to ensure that all students, including those with disabilities or language barriers, are being supported. And thirdly, we believe that there will be more urgent attention paid to professional development for K-12 educators.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Teaching kids to read with good accuracy in English takes several years. I believe we’ll see increased attention to students’ mental health and, with it, an increase in the attention paid to the mental health crisis and severely limited resources in our schools.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

No longer is travel or student visa status a barrier, English as a second language a challenge, nor the “right” appearance, class or race a deterrent to participation. The lone student of color, the single mother juggling child care, the disabled or depressed student no longer needs to shrink or stand out in the classroom.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2023

There's a range and a variation [of chronic absence] by ethnicity, and you see higher levels for kids who are affected by or have a disability. It also used to be that we saw young English language learners tended to show up to school pretty regularly [prior to the pandemic]. In fact, more regularly than their English-speaking peers.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

No longer is travel or student visa status a barrier, English as a second language a challenge, nor the “right” appearance, class or race a deterrent to participation. The lone student of color, the single mother juggling child care, the disabled or depressed student no longer needs to shrink or stand out in the classroom.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2025

This is an urgent and growing national problem, and immediate attention is needed to help these students who likely missed the benefits of an evidence-based curriculum for foundational literacy skills in early elementary school, especially during the COVID crisis. With more than 20 percent of U.S.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

says the pandemic “definitely brought a lot more attention to the issue” of child care, and likely helped voters with their decision. “I Sahar Muranovic, a universal preschool advocate and proponent of the measure that passed in Portland, Ore., That’s one reason we are so thrilled about Proposition EE’s passage.”

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