Disabilities Language Learning 
Catlin Tucker
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
In my last blog, I focused on the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principle of engagement. I highlighted how blended learning can help educators more effectively provide multiple means of engagement to increase student motivation and ensure all students can successfully engage with learning experiences. Language and Symbols.
eSchool News
MAY 26, 2025
Common issues include deficits in phonological awareness (Kilpatrick, 2015), limited exposure to language-rich environments, and instructional mismatches. Support must be personalized, often requiring collaboration among educators, families, and specialists to overcome socio-economic barriers, learning differences, or other challenges.
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Catlin Tucker
MAY 11, 2021
Like many, this teacher felt intense pressure to teach the standards and wasn’t sure how to embrace Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and blended learning. There is often a tension created by the pressure put on teachers to cover content with the student-centered approach to learning described by UDL and blended learning.
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. What I hear is that while public, magnet, and charter schools are legally required to offer language services, schools simply aren’t using interpreters as much as they should.
Faculty Focus
MAY 18, 2025
Creating a classroom in the service of social justice (The Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, 2008) requires a profound understanding of the impact of human diversity on teaching and learning (Cushner et al., Recognize that disability is often defined by the environment in which an individual exists.
eSchool News
JUNE 28, 2015
Flipped learning and one-to-one are a powerful combo for some populations. 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.
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 28, 2016
Florida Senate votes to consider coding a foreign language for graduation requirements. State senators in Florida overwhelmingly approved a proposal to allow high school students to count computer coding as a foreign language course, although questions linger about whether the two subjects should be considered one and the same.
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