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Steps Toward Creating a More Accessible and Inclusive College Classroom

Faculty Focus

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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Managing rising student needs under IDEA

eSchool News

This increase–driven by improved identification and diagnosis, heightened awareness, advocacy, and broader definitions of disabilities–presents substantial challenges for school districts. Persistent teacher shortages and the cost and time required to fill special education roles often exacerbate the strain.

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Feeling Overwhelmed and Overlooked, Special Educators Need SEL to Navigate the Pandemic

Edsurge

So much has changed in the last six months, and yet for educators of students who learn and think differently, what has remained the same is that navigating these evolving conditions continues to present challenges above and beyond those faced by educators of neurotypical learners.

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SEL Can Help Special Educators Address Rapidly Evolving Remote Learning Requirements

Edsurge

A third challenge resulting from the pandemic has been how teachers should address the rapidly evolving requirements for remote learning—from what goals to teach to, to logging instructional hours, addressing absenteeism and cataloging evidence of learning—for their students with special education needs.

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In Wyoming, enhancing AI-human collaboration in IEP development

eSchool News

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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Navigating Special Education with Open Communication

eSchool News

Expert IEP founder Antoinette Banks outlines how special education has been chronically underfunded for decadesand how the potential dismantling of the Department of Education adds new complications. There’s so much happening with special education, and I know that on some days it seems we have a million moving parts.

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Where Does Personalized Learning End and Special Education Begin?

Edsurge

Dually certified in special education and English Language Arts, I teach an ELA inclusion class to 11th and 12th graders, which means I serve students with and without Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) in the same setting. I’d like to see special education take a front seat in conversations about personalized learning.