Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

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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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

OCTOBER 26, 2015

A new report from the Council of the Great City Schools, released the same day at the Department of Education’s announcement, delves into the assessment discussion and examines its impact across the nation. The Department of Education outlined seven principles for fewer and smarter assessments: 1.

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eSchool News

MAY 3, 2017

CCC-SLP, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Center for Communication Enhancement and the Autism Language Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, discussed some innovative communication tips for students with autism. In “ Communication Innovations for Individuals with Autism ,” Howard C. Shane, Ph.D.,

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

Becky Oristaglio, Speech and Language Pathologist. Hearing and understanding what is being said in the classroom play a crucial role in a student’s speech and language development, reading and spelling ability, attention and concentration, and overall academic achievement. Listen and Learn. Central Falls School District, Rhode Island.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2018

When I was in middle school, I was diagnosed with a learning disability, so the “typical” school experience was always a challenge for me. As a teacher of world language, I want my students to realize that you don’t have to learn Spanish by studying verb conjugations out of a textbook every day.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Worries about using AI for academic help and answering questions led to many discussions on its role in the classroom. By analyzing patterns in students’ grades, attendance, participation, and other behavioral indicators, AI algorithms can predict potential academic risks and learning disabilities.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2019

An Individualized Education Plan (IEP) attempts to not only identify areas of challenge for a student—fine motor skills, language development, reading and comprehension, written and verbal language skills, social interaction, etc.—but Personalized Learning: Meeting the needs of students with disabilities.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In real life, curb cuts on sidewalks are intentionally designed for people with disabilities. Take dual-language learning as an example. It has been shown that dual-language learning leads to developmental gains for English language learners (ELLs). Instead, we need to re-center edtech on the curb-cut effect theory.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2024

Accessible conferences ensure that all attendees, regardless of physical, sensory or cognitive disabilities, can participate fully and engage with the content and networking opportunities. This involves engaging with disabled individuals directly, seeking their insights and perspectives to inform decision-making.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

This thread of inequity continues through other groups of students such as English Language Learners and Students with Disabilities. With Black students not even scoring half of the overall percentage, we’ve just gotten a sign to ring the alarm on equity in science education. We are clearly not serving our Black students.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2020

The necessary and rapid move to distance learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been disabling for our education system. These questions and more are echoing through the special education ecosystem while federal recommendations and guidelines pivot aggressively around discussion of waivers, accountability and budgets.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

The surveys included over 20 demographic questionscovering areas like housing, food security, disability status, and employmentfollowed by 1540 experience-based questions exploring academic confidence, mental health, study habits, and perceptions of inclusion. Each chapter is co-authored with students who lived the realities we discuss.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

It puts students with different personal circumstances, including family situation, level of preparation, language competency, disability and health, on a better footing to enjoy equitable access to their education. Reading aloud, through digital tools and in person, is consistent with a vision of educational universal design.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2024

The study offers the following insights: Building and navigating interpersonal relationships is the stickiest issue for today’s teens: While using the app, across all grades, teens discussed or sought support for an interpersonal relationship 40% of the time, followed by school-related topics and their self-identity. Yet more than 7.5

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

The note began: “We are sorry to report we learned today that some of our online Zoom classes were disrupted by people who used racist and vile language that interrupted lectures and learning. In Butash’s district, school officials have disabled the camera and muted the microphone for students upon joining a Zoom conference.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

“We knew we needed to do something to support all students,” says Perez, “especially English learners and students with disabilities.” We knew we needed to do something to support all students, especially English learners and students with disabilities. Sixty-two percent of Montgomery students are English language learners (ELL).

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

Colleges have long had offices designed to support students who have learning disabilities and to encourage broader accessibility in the classroom and beyond. On the latest installment of our monthly online discussion forum, EdSurge Live , we explored accessibility in this unusual era of emergency remote teaching.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2022

Meeks was introduced to us after participating in the UDL Product Certification listening sessions, a project sponsored by the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA), a coalition of organizations dedicated to supporting students with disabilities and learning differences. That was huge! And the same is true with Canvas, our LMS.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

“We knew we needed to do something to support all students,” says Perez, “especially English learners and students with disabilities.” We knew we needed to do something to support all students, especially English learners and students with disabilities. Sixty-two percent of Montgomery students are English language learners (ELL).

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Pop-up social media spaces and hashtags, such as #remoteteaching , #CovidCampus , and the Educator Temporary School Closure for Online Learning Facebook group, feature numerous posts and discussions about digital tools, resources, and apps for remote teaching. Students look for whether tools have accessibility statements or policies (i.e.,

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

However, getting lost in that discussion is the recognition that the science of reading encompasses all scientifically-based reading research. In 2023, the science of reading discussion will grow to encompass reading skills beyond foundational skills. And phonics—and all foundational reading skills—are very important.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It gives language for the dissonance of the repeated realization of a fractured personhood and how we persistently reassemble ourselves. Owning All of Their Identities Despite assumptions that Black women are monolithic, these educators discuss how they intentionally celebrate the fullness of who they are.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

It adds that discussions about AI should not forget educational outcomes or the best standards of evidence. Some should focus on how to use AI to increase equity, by, say, supporting students with disabilities and students who are English language learners, according to the Education Department report.

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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. We’re discussing how to strategically implement video feedback “now” and replicate successful models from other districts.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2023

Student projects helped to improve accessibility for individuals with disabilities by developing an AI-powered system that helps to translate spoken language into sign language for the deaf and hard of hearing. Student-led AI projects have a significant impact on communities in a variety of ways.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2019

Some efforts to foster neurodiversity on campus build on programs college administrations have long bolstered, like offices for disability services. Changing language reflects this shift. Information from a presentation created by Barbara Bookman, university director of disability programs at City University of New York.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

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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Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

One way that online instructors can use AI in the classroom is to become a digital master and use generative AI, such as ChatGPT , to develop deeper content ideas or analyze student contributions within discussion (Mora and Semingson 2023, 57). Transcriptions ease and enable learning for many students with disabilities. Nacheva, Radka.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2018

Engagement Video brings together two things that the written word can’t: body language and tone of voice. Indeed, studies have shown that video learning has positive outcomes on multiple levels, including increased motivation and deeper learning, and can specifically impact students’ ability to facilitate discussions and identify problems.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

After participating in the Omaha and Raleigh discussions, most of the 140 educators who attended expressed strong interest in participating in research, communicating their research needs to research bodies and/or co-designing research. Establish a set group of associations that gather regularly to discuss the research needs of educators.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2021

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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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

Historically, Maine has spurred national, paradigm-shifting discussions about how we “do school.” In other words: no world language program = no diploma. World Languages Maine is a large—and largely rural—state, with a dwindling student population. In other words: no world language program = no diploma. Special Education.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In this discussion of the benefits of Sustained Silent Reading, it’s apparent that encouraging his students’ love of reading was an effort to extend his curious nature to them—an effort that, after almost four decades in the classroom, clearly paid off. SSR works incredibly well with language learners. Absolutely not.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2020

When parents question things like assignments, or the practice of teaching that they see through their lenses, they may not be aware of the overall state of the class, or the range of abilities, disabilities, interests and considerations that go into the planning and teaching.” See also: Want to Show Teachers You Appreciate Them?

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