k12 Prospects

MAY 22, 2025

Many districts rely on federal funding and grants to purchase new technology, curriculum resources, and educational services. IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) Funding: Supports special education programs and resources. Align Products with Funded Initiatives Federal and state grants often have specific objectives.

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The Applicious Teacher

MAY 25, 2025

This is the “multi-sensory” part of the program that makes it work so well for students with learning disabilities like Dyslexia. This is great and is part of why the program works so well for students with learning disabilities: that daily reminder is why this program is considered systematic.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 27, 2025

Vision Board Project Goal Setting Bulletin Board Activity By Kitten Approved Curriculum Grades: 3rd-6th Students use a vision board planning sheet, graphic organizers, a checklist, and inspirational images to craft vision boards. They’ll serve as inspiration for students to keep their goals top of mind, and they might even inspire others!

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2025

Now, a dozen students from six families are suing the department for sidelining books, curriculum and cultural awareness events that conflict with the presidents goal of excising gender ideology and diversity, equity and inclusion from public life. These changes are causing irreparable harm to DoDEA students.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2025

In this vein, his executive orders have targeted diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives , restorative justice programs , curriculum that suggests the United States has racist origins , and especially protections for transgender students. Teachers walk a line as Trump targets DEI Trump promised to get “woke” out of American schools.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Achieve and the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) released “ Diplomas that Matter: Ensuring Equity of Opportunity for Students with Disabilities ,” a new report analyzing the diplomas available to students with disabilities in each state for the graduating class of 2015. percent in 2006 only to 66.3

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

While this failure felt terrible at the time, it ended up being the driving force behind the creation of a new high school transition program for students with mild to moderate disabilities. The laws change when a student with disabilities turns 18. Data: National Council on Disability. That kid was crafty. Graphic: ONEder.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

To help teachers recognize, respond to and prevent bullying toward these students, researchers at the University of Missouri collaborated to develop an evidence-based, online professional development curriculum. Students with disabilities often get bullied more than their peers without a disability.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The IDEA act also guarantees that students with disabilities have the right to engage in the Least Restrictive Learning Environment (LRE) that best meets their individual needs. The LRE ensures that students under IDEA are offered equitable access to education alongside their non-disabled peers.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

But there’s a similar learning disability that is holding back the achievement of students in mathematics, and it’s much less widely known. As with reading disabilities, early identification can lead to timely and effective support, reducing students’ long-term struggles with math and boosting educational outcomes. What is dyscalculia?

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Over the last 30 years, federal laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) opened the door for more students with disabilities to enroll in college. Surprisingly, only one-third of students with disabilities reported it to their institution (NCES, 2022). Most common accommodations by students with disabilities.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 14, 2016

They must stimulate and engage intellectually gifted students, while simultaneously scaffolding curriculum to support students at a lower level. Design curriculum of varied complexity. Without an attempt to vary instruction to meet the individual needs of each student, the curriculum is bound to bore some and baffle others.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

According to the World Health Organization , around 15 percent of the world’s population lives with some form of disability or special educational needs—and of that 15 percent, 2 to 4 percent experience significant difficulties in functioning. percent) who are 15 or older and have significant difficulties in functioning.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Classes have a wide mix of strengths and weaknesses, and a one-size-fits-all curriculum does not meet most children’s needs. 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.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

I understand the pressure teachers feel to cover the standards and move through their curriculum. There is often a tension created by the pressure put on teachers to cover content with the student-centered approach to learning described by UDL and blended learning. Teachers want all students to be successful.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

With generative AI emerging as a pivotal element in the dynamic educational landscape of 2023, Imagine Learning conducted the survey to explore the perceptions, current practices, and future aspirations of educators who have already embraced technology in the classroom.

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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. Curriculum News Professional Development (PD) Special Education Top News' The program also explains how to help these students learn to read.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Here’s an interesting piece from Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Jane Sandwood, on the explosion of wearable technology and its place in the education ecosystem: How Wearable Technology is Changing Education and Easing Disabilities. Overcoming Disabilities. Immersing in Education.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In a recent edWebinar , Aimee Dearmon, Speech and Language Pathologist (SLP) and Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), says the disruption of routines, schedules, classroom layouts, and necessary social distancing protocols will be very difficult for our most vulnerable students with autism and other developmental disabilities.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The most common of all neuro-cognitive disorders, dyslexia impacts about 20 percent of the US population and represents 80-90 percent percent of all individuals who have learning disabilities.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

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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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2022

rated, ensuring Capstone Interactive is accessible to children with vision, cognitive, physical, and hearing disabilities. Among the improvements, the eBook platform and reader will be Section 508 compliant and WCAG 2.1

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Ultimately, we want the students to have the skills they need to increase academic engagement and decrease their disruptive behaviors so that they can access the school curriculum.” To test the intervention, approximately 50 public high school students from Jefferson City, Hallsville and Fulton will participate.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Personalize curriculum and support: Children continue to face learnings gaps, particularly in math and sciences, and students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) and other special learning needs will require additional support that is not always offered within a traditional classroom. According to the U.S.

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eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2019

The belief that lowering reading expectations benefits struggling readers not only hurts students’ competency but under IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) is against the law. Schools need to set challenging goals for students with disabilities while also scaffolding up the content. In the case Endrew F.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

I started building an esports curriculum and, every time, I got shot down, I would add an element to the curriculum addressing the reasons I was told we couldn’t have a team. Ten percent of the students in GSE have some kind of disability. That’s not true, either. Kids love socializing through video games.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Adjusting to a rigorous curriculum, learning new skills and understanding the nuances of classroom learning are just a few of the many pressures students face. For students with learning disabilities such as dyslexia and related language processing difficulties, these struggles are amplified even in the most ideal learning environments.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2019

In a recent edWebinar , Anthony Baker, project director for Digital Promise, which has further developed and researched the Challenge-Based Learning model, explains that this approach enables students to make meaningful connections to their science curriculum while also answering the age-old student question: “Why do I need to learn this?”.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2024

My role in launching specialized schools in Louisiana for students with low-incidence disabilities reinforced the importance of educational options, a need that is universal regardless of a student’s abilities, grade level, learning style, preferences, social class, and geographic location.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Over the last 30 years, federal laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) opened the door for more students with disabilities to enroll in college. Surprisingly, only one-third of students with disabilities reported it to their institution (NCES, 2022). Most common accommodations by students with disabilities.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

a leading assistive technology and special education curriculum company based outside of Chicago, IL. ’s curriculum division will form a new company, named Building Wings , which includes the products Readtopia® and First Author®. Texthelp believes in a world where difference, disability, or language are no longer barriers.

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2021

When educators know how to identify a student with a learning or language disability, they can act immediately to begin remediation. Here are steps educators can take to support struggling readers in middle or high school.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Eventually, I felt I had no choice but to finally take my son for a thorough evaluation that revealed not only ADHD but also dyslexia and dysgraphia, a writing-related learning disability. Teaching dyslexic students requires more than just following a curriculum.

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eSchool News

JULY 6, 2022

Students from low-income families, those with disabilities, and English language learners were disproportionately affected. 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.

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