Disabilities, English and Language

How our district turned a sea of data into a compass for change

eSchool News

JULY 7, 2025

Specifically, this has allowed us to improve in closing the achievement gap for students with disabilities over the last several years and to provide our teachers with more tailored professional learning for support. We adjusted our resources, and this year, 96 percent of K-5 students met typical growth in English language arts.

Counselling

Counselling English Disabilities Coaching

Many states picked diploma pathways over high school exit exams. Did students benefit?

eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2025

Asian and white students are much more likely to complete one of the math and English pathways, considered the college-prep route, while Native students, English learners, and students with disabilities are more likely to have no graduation pathway. Now over 89% do.

Exams

Exams High School High School Schools

Why Districts Are Turning to Esports to Reach More Learners

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Programs like this open new doors for students who don’t always see themselves represented in traditional extracurriculars, especially girls, multilingual learners and students with disabilities. Confidence: English Language learners improve through hands-on projects. Collaboration: Teams build shared purpose and community.

STEM

STEM Disabilities Interdisciplinary Critical Thinking

Trimming the Edtech Fat: How Districts Are Streamlining Their Digital Ecosystems

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2025

The committee built on the districts existing criteria which already included usability, data privacy and alignment with goals by adding new elements: AI capabilities, language support for English learners and accessibility features for students with disabilities.

Evaluation

Evaluation Secondary Education Disabilities Feedback

How K-12 Districts Can Navigate Compliance, Staffing, and Instructional Risk in 2025

Elevate k12

JULY 3, 2025

In many districts, the programs at risk are the same ones that support compliance with federal education laws: Title III-supported English language services, Special Education instruction, and after-school accommodations often written into IEPs. But the mechanisms to fund those obligations are increasingly unstable.

Special Education

Special Education English Languages Language

Meaningful Vision Board Ideas for Students + Tips for Creating Them

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 27, 2025

Vision Board Student Workbook By Danielle Knight Grades: 4th-12th Subjects: English Language Arts Students will create a 15×20 vision board using this eight-section guide. Once all the pages are complete, students can use the information to create a vision board.

Learning Disabilities

Learning Disabilities Disabilities Students Art

Schools must do more to help families overcome language barriers

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

residents who speak a language other than English at home. I talk to a lot of parents, both as a parent myself and in my work advocating for language services. Ensuring access to language services benefits not only LEP parents and their children but also their teachers, classmates, and the district overall.

Language

Language Languages English Schools

How Monolingual Teachers Can Support English Language Acquisition for Multilingual Learners

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Odette guided Esther as she wrote her answers in English. “I She wanted me to know that although she could not yet speak English, she felt confident as a learner in her first language. A system in which many of their teachers, myself included, speak only English. I want my teacher to know I’m Smart in Swahili.”

English

English Language Languages Teachers

How we turned around our English language learner (ELL) program

eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2019

Many of those struggling were English-language learners (ELLs) whose English proficiency wasn’t at the level needed to comprehend challenging texts within these exams. Some were students with learning disabilities. Related: Teachers: English learners need resources, support.

English

English Language Languages Learning Disabilities

Removing Barriers with UDL and Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

The same class may have students who don’t have the necessary prior knowledge or language skills to understand the information presented. The teacher may use academic or subject-specific vocabulary unfamiliar to a student with limited background knowledge or who is not a native English speaker.

Blended Learning

Blended Learning Learning Universal Design Disabilities

How to ensure digital equity in online testing

eSchool News

JULY 6, 2022

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

Testing

Testing Exams Disabilities English

Flipped learning is changing the face of special ed

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2015

44 percent of students are English language learners, have special needs, or both. If schools are to meet the learning needs of every student, including those with disabilities, then “we have to think differently about how we provide instruction,” Hill said. Haynes High School in Washington, D.C., million children in the U.S.

Disabilities

Disabilities Learning Disabilities Special Education Learning

Data Shows More Discipline, Less College Prep for Students With Disabilities

Edsurge

JULY 18, 2025

Roughly 1 out of every 7 children in public school has an identified disability, according to a recent analysis, but both traditional public and charter schools have a long way to go to provide equal opportunities for those students — which they have the right to receive.

Disabilities

Disabilities English Students Culture

Improving online accessibility for students a major issue for schools

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2015

This new case highlights a particularly controversial subject in an era where more colleges and K-12 schools are making lectures available online and developing related content that may not always be accessible to students with disabilities. Next page: Getting Onboard with Accessibility.

Accessibility

Accessibility Disabilities Lecturing Ethics

HEARBUILDER Online Foundational Literacy Program Builds Basic Skills in Young Students

eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2020

HearBuilder is used in Preschool and Elementary School, Response to Intervention (RTI), Title 1, English language learner, Head Start, and Homeschool settings. Not only can you monitor progress, it lets you increase and decrease difficulties of the activities within the program. About Super Duper Publications.

Skills

Skills Disabilities Learning Disabilities Students

Teaching Bilingual Learners in Rural Schools

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2024

Throughout rural America, non-native English speakers are less likely than their urban peers to get proper support in school, sometimes leading to a lifetime of lower educational attainment. But in rural DuBois County, Indiana, administrators are prioritizing English-learner education.

Teaching

Teaching English Languages Language

So you think you understand UDL?

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

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. We began providing accommodations through differentiated instruction and teachers figured out what to change or modify to accommodate “disabled” learners.

Disabilities

Disabilities Universal Design Essay Beliefs

5 ways to support students’ access to diverse books

eSchool News

MAY 16, 2022

Having access to diverse texts helps children expand their vocabularies, deepens their understanding of language, provides opportunities for problem-solving, provides critical affirming experiences to students’ lives, and presents opportunities for students to learn about people with different lived experiences. percent of total books).

Accessibility

Accessibility Beliefs Disabilities Students

Capstone Interactive eBook Platform Relaunches With Enhanced Accessibility for Children

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 With multi-user, simultaneous access, Capstone Interactive can be used by every student in a school. About Capstone.

Accessibility

Accessibility Disabilities English Reading

Screen-free students: How Spokane Public Schools is helping kids engage in real life

eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2025

Creating opportunities for all kids Key to Engage IRLs success was ensuring partnerships and programs were centered in equity, allowing every child to participate regardless of ability, financial or transportation constraints, or language barriers. There are barriers to finding community for some kids, she shared.

Disabilities

Disabilities Schools Students Art

With Rising Concerns About Dyslexia in Young Learners, Riverside Insights Introduces First-of-its Kind Playbook to Streamline Evaluations

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

. – Riverside Insights ®, a leading developer of research-based assessments and analytics, today debuted a new Assessment Playbook focused on streamlining the evaluation of dyslexia, the most common learning disability, affecting 20% of the population.

Evaluation

Evaluation Disabilities Testing Learning Disabilities

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

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

With demonstrated effectiveness with special populations, CogAT is uniquely positioned to meet the ADE’s requirements, supporting all learners including students with a disability or students acquiring the English language.

Grades

Grades Fairness Disabilities Education

Think Through Math adds geometry to interactive math system

eSchool News

JULY 26, 2015

Available to students from school and home, Think Through Math’s adaptive learning technology addresses the unique learning needs of every student including English Language Learners (ELL) and those with advanced math aptitude and learning disabilities. Material from a press release was used in this report.

Math

Math Learning Disabilities Disabilities English

Computer science education sees more investment, but access gaps linger

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Black/African American students, Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx students, and Native American/Alaskan students are less likely to attend a high school that offers foundational computer science.

Science

Science Accessibility Education STEM

Dear parents: 3 ways AI will show up in your child’s classroom this year

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

With a draft in hand, we can better use our time to figure out ways to connect the lesson to our students’ passions, differentiate to meet the unique needs of students (like those with disabilities or English Language Learners), and make the tiny adjustments necessary to bring learning to life.

Disabilities

Disabilities Questions Teaching Assistants English

K-12 Students Access 100 Million+ Digital Books from their Schools with Sora Reading App

eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2022

Finally, educators can serve those with print or reading disabilities effectively via digital audio, and encourage students to spend more time reading by leveraging Sora’s badges and achievements. Also, educators can create their own digital book clubs for students as well as encourage involvement in regional or global programs.

Reading

Reading Accessibility Disabilities English

Students using AI: It’s not that scary and shouldn’t be banned

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

For example, text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools support students with disabilities, while language models assist non-native English speakers. Rethinking AI as a tool for empowerment 1. Enhancing accessibility AI tools can make learning more inclusive.

Ethics

Ethics Critical Thinking Essay Students

How are students doing since COVID? Good luck finding out from your state’s school report card

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

For the center’s report, researchers set out to find information in each state about student achievement in English language arts, math, science, and social studies, as well as student growth–or the progress students made year over year–in English and math.

English

English Achievement Schools Disabilities

These 9 free apps help every student hit Common Core Standards

eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2016

The Common Core app organizes the Common Core standards by subject area (math traditional, math integrated, language arts, history/Social Studies, and science and technology) and grade level. This particular app seems to include more resources for the primary grades and contains more extensive mathematics than English Language Arts resources.

Disabilities

Disabilities Art English Social Studies

Editor’s Picks 2015, No. seven: Flipped learning is changing the face of special ed

eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2015

44 percent of students are English language learners, have special needs, or both. If schools are to meet the learning needs of every student, including those with disabilities, then “we have to think differently about how we provide instruction,” Hill said. Haynes High School in Washington, D.C., million children in the U.S.

Disabilities

Disabilities Learning Disabilities Special Education Learning

A tale of two pilots

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.

Learning Disabilities

Learning Disabilities Disabilities English Languages

The secret to good teaching? Teamwork

eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

I expected the obvious: general content teachers, teachers who work with English language learners and students with disabilities, counselors, social workers, paraprofessionals, and other support staff. Who is needed on this team?

Teaching

Teaching Social Studies History Disabilities

2020: The Year Of the Edtech Paradox

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). There are many curb-cut effect opportunities in education.

English

English Languages Language Beliefs

How to Bring to Life the Science of Reading

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2024

I spoke to Aylynn as part of a visit to Pendergast with my colleagues from Imagine Learning to hear about educators’ and students’ experiences using the Imagine Learning EL (English Learner) Education curriculum. Reading requires building connections in the brain that wouldn’t exist without explicit instruction.

Science

Science Reading Interdisciplinary Languages

Helping All Learners Achieve Success on Their Own Terms

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.

Achievement

Achievement Learning Disabilities Disabilities English

Assessments to play reduced classroom role

eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2015

The federal announcement also notes that, however unintended, certain populations, such as English Language Learners or students with disabilities, have often been at a disadvantage when it comes to assessments. The Department of Education outlined seven principles for fewer and smarter assessments: 1.

Fairness

Fairness Disabilities Testing English

Forget Memorization: Here's Why Language Class Should Focus on Excitement Instead

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. Taking Things Despacio.

Language

Language Languages Culture Learning Disabilities

Schools have struggled to add learning time after COVID–here’s how one district did it

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

About three-quarters of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and more than half of students are learning English. The year before the pandemic, 22% of students in the district met or exceeded Illinois’ English language arts standards, while 16% cleared that bar in math.

Schools

Schools Math English Reading

This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

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. There are so many functions that support English language learners.”

Math

Math Testing English Disabilities

3 steps to a more accessible classroom

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In my first-grade classroom, a third of my students were learning English as a second language. Though my English learners were the initial reason I starting using closed-captioning on videos, I soon realized that students with special needs also benefited. Evaluating accessibility.

Accessibility

Accessibility Disabilities English Evaluation

This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

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. There are so many functions that support English language learners.”

Math

Math Testing English Disabilities

Marketplace trend update: 6 new products, teaching strategies, and learning initiatives

eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

The new programs also have increased training for leading special student populations, including students with disabilities, English language learners and early childhood students. that would use a technology-based language development and literacy program to English language learners (ELLs) in grades K-6.Approximately

Teaching

Teaching Exams Disabilities Learning

When the Variability of All Learners Is Addressed

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

As an education community, we are beginning to understand the depth of the pandemic’s impact, especially on our students of color, our English Language learners and our students with disabilities. We, as an education community, must commit to the principles of Universal Design for Learning for the benefit of all learners.

Disabilities

Disabilities Universal Design Special Education English

How to Prepare K–12 Students for Online Testing

EdTech Magazine

MARCH 28, 2022

Additionally, critics have voiced concerns about digital equity, a sentiment supported by research that shows that students from low-income families, English language learners and students with disabilities…

Testing

Testing Disabilities Exams English

How our district turned a sea of data into a compass for change

Many states picked diploma pathways over high school exit exams. Did students benefit?

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How we turned around our English language learner (ELL) program

Removing Barriers with UDL and Blended Learning

How to ensure digital equity in online testing

Flipped learning is changing the face of special ed

Data Shows More Discipline, Less College Prep for Students With Disabilities

Improving online accessibility for students a major issue for schools

HEARBUILDER Online Foundational Literacy Program Builds Basic Skills in Young Students

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So you think you understand UDL?

5 ways to support students’ access to diverse books

Capstone Interactive eBook Platform Relaunches With Enhanced Accessibility for Children

Screen-free students: How Spokane Public Schools is helping kids engage in real life

With Rising Concerns About Dyslexia in Young Learners, Riverside Insights Introduces First-of-its Kind Playbook to Streamline Evaluations

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

Think Through Math adds geometry to interactive math system

Computer science education sees more investment, but access gaps linger

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Students using AI: It’s not that scary and shouldn’t be banned

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These 9 free apps help every student hit Common Core Standards

Editor’s Picks 2015, No. seven: Flipped learning is changing the face of special ed

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2020: The Year Of the Edtech Paradox

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Helping All Learners Achieve Success on Their Own Terms

Assessments to play reduced classroom role

Forget Memorization: Here's Why Language Class Should Focus on Excitement Instead

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This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

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