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Why Districts Are Turning to Esports to Reach More Learners

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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.

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

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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.

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Head Start’s Future Is Uncertain. Rural Americans Aren’t Ready for What Happens Next.

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Children enrolled in Head Start receive more access to comprehensive care, including annual physicals, trips to the dentist, disability testing and an overall focus on nutritional services. Access to pediatric care can also be limited for families lin rural areas. Kennedy Jr.s defense of the well-debunked claim that vaccines cause autism.

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How are ELLs, students with disabilities IDed for gifted and talented?

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States with formal policies around gifted and talented programs tend to identify more English learners and students with disabilities for those programs, according to a new study from NWEA , a not-for-profit research and educational services organization serving K-12 students.

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How Monolingual Teachers Can Support English Language Acquisition for Multilingual Learners

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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. Research shows that students who are classified as English language learners may be perceived by teachers as less capable than their non-ELL peers.

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How to ensure digital equity in online testing

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A study published in 2019 by Ben Backes and James Cowan from the nonprofit, nonpartisan American Institutes for Research found that students who took the Massachusetts state exam online performed worse, on average, than students of similar abilities who took the same test on paper.

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How to build relationships with students

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I’ve been a reading specialist, a special education teacher, and an English teacher, among others. Students with disabilities often require more frequent check-ins. Students who struggle with disabilities, especially in high school, have been struggling for a long time, and it’s still really hard. I can’t be in their shoes.