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How to work for equity of access in classrooms

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This includes considerations for students with disabilities, such as providing text alternatives for images and accommodating various learning styles. Curriculum diversity and inclusion: Review and update curricula to be more inclusive and representative of diverse cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives.

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Arizona Department of Education Selects Riverside’s CogAT for Statewide Universal Screening of all Second-Grade Students for Gifted Education Services

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“Universal screening removes barriers to access and is a proven strategy to help identify students that have been traditionally underrepresented in Gifted Education programs – especially students who may be culturally, linguistically and socioeconomically diverse.”.

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What Public School Teachers Want: Less Disruption

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Teachers want fair funding for all schools. Charter schools have been known to cherry pick students by race, class and even disability levels. Teachers want the focus off of the flawed standardized data culture and back on the children as developing human beings who deserve more than test prep and basic skills.

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As Safety Threats Rise in Schools, Could SEL Programs Help?

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There has also been an outlash of criticism on curriculum , coursework and materials, with efforts to restrict what educators teach, that has put racial, cultural and historical identities under attack. America’s young people are feeling the weight of it all. high school students.

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Enhancing Access, Engagement, and Inclusion in Online Education

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In response, universities and educators strive to create and nurture virtual relationships and communities that foster positive relational school cultures, understanding student behavior within a social context (Manassah, Roderick, and Gregory 2018, 39). Mentors can be faculty members, alumni, or industry professionals.

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How Should Professors Respond When Students Ask for Accommodations?

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I do not imagine that our program is their only or top priority, but I also do not imagine that it is fair to let some make up months of past due work to improve a grade from a previous semester or give extra time on evaluations without medical justification. How much do you bend? I have 22 students all on the exact same schedule.

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Enhancing Access, Engagement, and Inclusion in Online Education

Faculty Focus

In response, universities and educators strive to create and nurture virtual relationships and communities that foster positive relational school cultures, understanding student behavior within a social context (Manassah, Roderick, and Gregory 2018, 39). Mentors can be faculty members, alumni, or industry professionals.