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Fully Seen and Fully Known: Teaching that Affirms Disability

Cult of Pedagogy

Over the past few decades, significant strides have been made in the field of special education to make every classroom a place where students, regardless of ability or disability, can reach their full potential. While these efforts have succeeded in improving access, they still position disabled students as lacking in some way.

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Supporting delayed readers: Strategies for success

eSchool News

Delayed readers are students whose reading development lags behind typical age or grade expectations. Foundational skills to support reading for understanding in kindergarten through 3rd grade (IES Practice Guide). Intensive interventions for students with reading disabilities: Meaningful impacts. What is a delayed reader?

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

eSchool News

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. For instance, we conduct empathy interviews where we talk with students and staff to find out more about their experiences.

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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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Why Districts Are Turning to Esports to Reach More Learners

Edsurge

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. The way the Showdown brought together students from every district and grade level. What stood out most?

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Through Comedy Classes, Students Take ‘Big Swings’ for Mental Health

Edsurge

Most recently, Gethard completed nine workshops at a high school where over half of the student body are on Individualized Education Plans (IEP), or accommodations for students with learning, developmental, or behavioral disabilities. To ease students into the experience, he’d tell them to simply take a breath and try to be present.

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

eSchool News

In a ninth grade class, he researched the earning potential for a STEM degree (“so much more money”) and the demand for mechanical engineers (“exploding”). By the end of eighth grade, they’ve learned about 10 different careers. Pathways can also help schools expose students to career options earlier.

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