eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Eventually, I felt I had no choice but to finally take my son for a thorough evaluation that revealed not only ADHD but also dyslexia and dysgraphia, a writing-related learning disability. After my son’s evaluation, I knew I had to take action.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

For instance, students must evaluate the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated information, distinguishing between helpful insights and misleading content. For example, text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools support students with disabilities, while language models assist non-native English speakers.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Then, they will self-monitor and self-evaluate their goal progress using a self-monitoring application called I-Connect. The students will first set goals on how they want to improve, whether that is paying closer attention to the teacher or following directions better.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2019

While the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was last reauthorized in 2004, with amendments in 2015, and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) updated back in 2008, the demand for accessibility and equality in education continues to grow. 5 steps we need to take to ensure accessibility and equality in education.

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eSchool News

JUNE 19, 2018

For our students with disabilities, this is a more involved and comprehensive process. Evaluate interests and opportunities. As educators, we have a responsibility to all students to not only help them achieve academically, but to also prepare them for life as productive, contributing, global citizens.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Processes for understanding the educational benefit of a particular IEP vary widely, and in many cases include educators printing out IEPs, collecting service records, achievement and behavioral data, and lining them up side-by-side to evaluate whether students made meaningful gains towards their goals.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2024

includes an IEP generator that will draft an initial IEP given the child’s grade level, disabilities and strengths, needs, and behaviors. During the evaluation process, a multidisciplinary team will come together to provide information as part of an evaluation to determine eligibility for services. MagicSchool.ai Easy-peasy.AI

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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.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2021

With Parallel, evaluations begin within days instead of waiting months and cost a fraction of the price of traditional evaluations which can be upwards of $5,000. This proprietary technology cuts the evaluation time in half, allowing students to receive a full report within just two weeks.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

While the authors of the 2017 National Educational Technology Plan recommended that, “every new teacher should be prepared to model how to select and use the most appropriate apps and tools to support learning and evaluate these tools against basic privacy and security standards,” this has not come to fruition.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

These were not standard end-of-semester evaluations. 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.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

As a public school teacher, I had to constantly evaluate how my teaching practices and materials could better include and empower the vast diversity in my classroom. Evaluating accessibility. My students loved having subtitles on during short videos because it gave them more opportunities to interact with and learn from the content.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But before administrators and other educational leaders fully invest in the AI fever dream, it might be wise to slow down and first develop some guidelines around using AI in education–particularly for how to evaluate and apply this new, disruptive technology.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

The company’s support and accessible technology is designed to accommodate children and adults with special needs and learning disabilities. Texthelp believes in a world where difference, disability, or language are no longer barriers. .” For more than 40 years, Don Johnston Inc. Since its inception, Don Johnston Inc.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2021

As a result of Larkin’s innovations regarding district staff’s strategic collaboration, professional development and investment in evidence-based practice, students with disabilities made double-digit gains in reading and math on the NAEP assessments.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The “ Back to School Behavior Management Course Bundle ” includes 15 evidence-based training courses in the areas of managing challenging student behaviors, key behavioral disabilities, and essential processes and procedures for handling behavior appropriately and safely.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

When evaluating vendors in any category, a key area where they can provide support is their ability to offer tabletop exercises that can engage and educate administrators and other faculty who might not understand or appreciate security. Check for important features and support.

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

1 Within this larger pool, a core group is considered to have a reading disability or dyslexia. Even lengthy evaluations by specialists have all the same limitations. 15 The largest category is learning disabilities, mainly dyslexia. 16 Reading difficulties also occur across other disabilities such as autism and ADHD.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2020

A major sticking point is not the access gap, but provisions under three federal laws: the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Without a doubt, students with special needs deserve equal access to high quality education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

The ever-changing conditions require responsible decision making, the ability to make constructive and respectful choices about personal behavior and social interactions based on consideration of ethical standards, safety concerns, social norms, the realistic evaluation of consequences of various actions and the well-being of self and others.

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2019

Some were students with learning disabilities. Teachers lead direct instruction on skills, such as how to identify the theme or central idea of a text, how to analyze the development of this idea throughout the text, and how to evaluate the strength of the arguments presented.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Younger students, and students with disabilities that impact executive function, struggle more in fully asynchronous learning environments, and may require adult supervision to work through asynchronous assignments. In many ways, asynchronous online learning is similar to homework.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

In mixed-ability groups, students can work together to evaluate and discuss their evidence, with higher-level students leading the analysis. Evidence Analysis: The teacher guides students in analyzing the quality and relevance of their evidence, encouraging them to select the most compelling pieces to support their claims.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

By analyzing patterns in students’ grades, attendance, participation, and other behavioral indicators, AI algorithms can predict potential academic risks and learning disabilities. Automated grading and feedback : Automated grading systems powered by AI can significantly reduce teachers’ time evaluating assignments and exams.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2023

In my drive to transcend the label of “the Asian teacher” that colleagues and students attached to me, I ended up suppressing another part of my identity as a disabled person with a visual impairment. In the former, it was my disability that defined who I was, but in the latter, it was my skin color.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Evaluate the staffing landscape: Assess how to address staffing needs to ensure all students receive necessary services. What would you be able to accomplish?”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

–Jessica Campos, Instructional Technology Coach, Mesquite Independent School District In the 2024 to 2025 school year, districts will be asking more questions about evidence of impact when they’re evaluating and selecting education technology solutions. Schenker, Ed.D.,

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Even when we are evaluating our colleagues in tenure and promotion files,” the professors write, “do you need to promise not to hit the button when you are plowing through hundreds of pages of student evaluations of teaching?” This is not cheating,” she stresses.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2022

The research used MAP Growth assessment data and revealed that while students with disabilities, English learners, and rural students make gains at rates equal to or faster than their grade-level peers during the school year, these students also experience greater learning loss in the summer, leading to persistent achievement gaps.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2022

Called “Research Priorities for Advancing Equitable Dual Enrollment Policy and Practice,” the report highlights the fact that there is less participation in dual-enrollment programs among racial minorities, low-income students, boys, English language learners, students with disabilities and youth who are in foster care or experiencing homelessness.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

But of these states, only 30 legally require an intervention for students with this extremely common learning disability. Last month, California joined the list of 40 other states that have legislation requiring dyslexia screenings in early education. These screenings serve as a risk indicator and not a formal diagnosis.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2019

Among its main social-impact missions is to ensure that educational texts—print or digital—are accessible to every learner, regardless of impairment or disability. The architect issues a report after the evaluation; if any features are missing, the publisher fixes them and submits the files for another round of review.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

That means psychological evaluations, finding out whether there’s an undiagnosed learning disability that’s making school acutely uncomfortable for the student, and other measures such as exposure therapy, she says. So that just shows you how desperate families are,” she says.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

To summarize, while hybrid learning models offer promising solutions, their success hinges on thoughtful execution and consistent evaluation. Moreover, the reliance on technology necessitates robust infrastructure, which isn’t always present in all educational settings.

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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. The results were monitored for student growth.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And universal assessments that test multilingual students in English can provide inaccurate information that teachers use to guide their practice or can wrongly indicate learning disabilities. Her calm, clear observation was intent on disrupting a system of oppression that weighed on her and her peers.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

When I requested to have her evaluated for additional support at school, I was told to give her time. While the school waited, we sought outside evaluations to explore if there were supports that would be helpful to reduce the challenges she was experiencing at school. It’s every kid in this grade,” her teacher said.

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