Disabilities Distance Learning Language 
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
Today’s students, teachers, and administrative staff are facing unprecedented connectivity challenges as the 2020 school year brings more and more distance learning options. Students who don’t have access to high-quality internet service are at significant disadvantage compared to their connected peers.
Edsurge
JUNE 4, 2020
This is the first of a three-part series looking at how social-emotional learning strategies can support teachers of students with learning differences during the pandemic. The necessary and rapid move to distance learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been disabling for our education system.
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Edsurge
JUNE 25, 2020
Families are making choices about what to prioritize during distance learning while navigating unique demands of work, family and health. At the end of the day we can make constructive choices about our practice, building from student needs, requirements and the affordances and challenges of distance learning strategies.
eSchool News
JANUARY 2, 2023
We have a complex language where one letter pattern can stand for different sounds (COW and SNOW), and where similar sounds can be spelled in different ways (WAIT and WEIGHT). Second, we need to acknowledge and allow for the time it takes students to move toward fluent reading of a complex language, even when our instruction is excellent.
Edsurge
JUNE 2, 2020
That system hampered the flexibility needed to provide remediation for English-language learners and special education students. Students will return to school from wildly different experiences with remote learning. Addressing widening differences is a challenge that does not fit neatly into 50-minute segments.
Edsurge
MARCH 16, 2020
Tony Wan, Managing Editor Access and Equity How can we accommodate students who have learning disabilities in online instruction and practice universal design principles? However, educators should make sure to translate the accommodations they’ve likely already made in the classroom into their distance learning plans, Del Tufo says.
Edsurge
JUNE 11, 2020
Bonus points for tools that facilitate communication in multiple tongues, says Aaron Walker, founder and CEO of Camelback Ventures: “If we are going to integrate parents and families into the learning experience, it’s going to force us to embrace the true diversity of this country, and that includes the languages people speak at home.”
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