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Cutting-edge research to support students with reading disabilities

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Current approaches to identifying students with reading disabilities are often problematic and ineffective, and will not lead students to academic success. However, there have been significant improvements in identification and screening that are allowing us to provide greater—and earlier—support.

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Steps Toward Creating a More Accessible and Inclusive College Classroom

Faculty Focus

It is important to understand inclusive pedagogies as practices where we discern the nuance between general multicultural education or culturally responsive pedagogy and inclusive practices that specifically address the ability/disability continuum and the health dimension. Support colleagues with disabilities.

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Strategies for Accommodating Students with Disabilities in Higher Education 

Faculty Focus

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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College Students With Learning Disabilities Are Asking For More Support. Will They Get It?

Edsurge

College students with learning disabilities experienced a sudden rupture of the status quo this spring when most of their courses moved online. Lalor is the director of the Landmark College Institute for Research and Training, which studies education strategies and outcomes for students who have learning disabilities.

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Is Growth Mindset the Missing Piece in the Equity Discussion?

Edsurge

While race is, of course, a major factor in these discussions, I approach equity as a much broader construct. What do I truly believe is possible in terms of student achievement? Many educators have an image of equity in their minds that only relates to race. Brainstorm causes for these issues.

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Removing Barriers with UDL and Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

Station 2: Online Station Students spend time engaging in an asynchronous online discussion/debate about possible threats to biodiversity. Station 3: Offline Station Students create a flow chart or concept map with paper and markers that visually displays the meaning of the word biodiversity. Teachers want all students to be successful.

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Creating Inclusive Classrooms with Co-Teaching and the Station Rotation

Catlin Tucker

Example: Two Teacher-Led Stations – One Differentiated, One Guided Reading and Discussion Reading Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.2 The teacher uses guided reading strategies, asking questions that help students focus on basic elements like characters and setting before discussing the moral.

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