eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2022

Finally, educators can serve those with print or reading disabilities effectively via digital audio, and encourage students to spend more time reading by leveraging Sora’s badges and achievements. Also, educators can create their own digital book clubs for students as well as encourage involvement in regional or global programs.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 4, 2022

This is considered ‘deficit thinking,’ or thinking that defines a diagnosis by its challenges, in order to treat, fix, or minimize specific features of a student’s disability. My lived experience with a disability and my professional positionality in disability scholarship and education systems is driving my efforts.

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Cal Matters

APRIL 16, 2025

Almost everyone gets nervous during a traffic stop, but people with disabilities also worry about whether an officer understands their condition or could misinterpret their symptoms. Ochoa Bogh acknowledged some people dont want to disclose their disabilities; no one would be required to participate.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

“A disability may be the result of combinations of impairments and environmental barriers , such as attitudinal barriers, inaccessible information, an inaccessible built environment or other barriers that affect people’s full participation in society [i].” For instance, in 2019, 6.2% of Canadian undergraduate students and 2.4%

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

“A disability may be the result of combinations of impairments and environmental barriers , such as attitudinal barriers, inaccessible information, an inaccessible built environment or other barriers that affect people’s full participation in society [i].” For instance, in 2019, 6.2% of Canadian undergraduate students and 2.4%

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

Becky Oristaglio, Speech and Language Pathologist. Hearing and understanding what is being said in the classroom play a crucial role in a student’s speech and language development, reading and spelling ability, attention and concentration, and overall academic achievement. Listen and Learn. Central Falls School District, Rhode Island.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2024

Accessible conferences ensure that all attendees, regardless of physical, sensory or cognitive disabilities, can participate fully and engage with the content and networking opportunities. This involves engaging with disabled individuals directly, seeking their insights and perspectives to inform decision-making.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 11, 2024

By taking a data-driven approach to individual IEP development and review, leaders can, with suitable systems, aggregate IEP data to look at ways they can better serve students with disabilities as a whole.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2024

We are the only school in the region who started a dual language program,” said Rossina Sandoval, Southwest DuBois County School District’s director of community engagement, in an interview with the Daily Yonder. That has proven to be the most effective way to develop language skills,” she said.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It gives language for the dissonance of the repeated realization of a fractured personhood and how we persistently reassemble ourselves. The African Diaspora Lives in Education About 30 percent of our participants reported having at least one parent or grandparent from the Caribbean or the African continent.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

It is difficult for the 1,200-student district to offer STEM, foreign language or Advanced Placement courses year-round. Students are expected to participate in mentoring and internships. Check out this inspiring video of CAPS students changing the life of a disabled student.).

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eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2022

” Educators that participated in the initial pilot testing with ParentSquare and MyVRSpot are eager to begin implementing this new video capability school- and district-wide. Live streaming is also available with MyVRSpot’s “Anytime, Anywhere, from Any Device” Live Broadcasting solution.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

For the center’s report, researchers set out to find information in each state about student achievement in English language arts, math, science, and social studies, as well as student growth–or the progress students made year over year–in English and math.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

What she and about 100 other participants experienced now has a name: “Zoombombing.” The note began: “We are sorry to report we learned today that some of our online Zoom classes were disrupted by people who used racist and vile language that interrupted lectures and learning. Zoombombing doesn’t always involve internet strangers.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

As an education community, we are beginning to understand the depth of the pandemic’s impact, especially on our students of color, our English Language learners and our students with disabilities. But we are also beginning to understand the breadth of connection, growth and networks that we have encountered over the past two years.

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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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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

Over multiple semesters, more than 2,000 students voluntarily participated in IRB-approved surveys and follow-up interviews. Ann Fredricksen, a dedicated advocate with Disability Resources and Educational Services, kept disability at the center of our equity frameworknot as an afterthought, but as a foundation.

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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. This will allow teachers to intervene early with tailored strategies to help every student succeed, ensuring minor setbacks don’t become major obstacles.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2023

Students who participated in SEL programs reported better relationships with their teachers, witnessed less violent and aggressive acts at school, and expressed that their school environments have fair policies and rules. What remains less clear is the impact that SEL programming has on marginalized youth.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

The new programs also have increased training for leading special student populations, including students with disabilities, English language learners and early childhood students. that would use a technology-based language development and literacy program to English language learners (ELLs) in grades K-6.Approximately

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2022

Meeks was introduced to us after participating in the UDL Product Certification listening sessions, a project sponsored by the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA), a coalition of organizations dedicated to supporting students with disabilities and learning differences. That was huge! And the same is true with Canvas, our LMS.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Teacher 2: Guided Reading and Discussion Station In this station, all students participate in a guided reading session, where the teacher facilitates a deep dive into the text. This may include varying sentence structure, using precise language, and incorporating rhetorical devices to enhance their arguments.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

Colleges have long had offices designed to support students who have learning disabilities and to encourage broader accessibility in the classroom and beyond. Students who struggle because they have reading disabilities or struggle to read on a computer screen because of blurred vision. For that,] a text-to-speech software saves us.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

In fact, research shows that 80 percent of esports teams are comprised of students who have never before participated in extracurricular activities. Much like participation in an athletic team, esports players learn how to work together as an effective team by communicating and collaborating with each other. –Amy Gulley, M.Ed

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2019

Some efforts to foster neurodiversity on campus build on programs college administrations have long bolstered, like offices for disability services. Changing language reflects this shift. Information from a presentation created by Barbara Bookman, university director of disability programs at City University of New York.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2023

Student projects helped to improve accessibility for individuals with disabilities by developing an AI-powered system that helps to translate spoken language into sign language for the deaf and hard of hearing. Student-led AI projects have a significant impact on communities in a variety of ways.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

We have a complex language where one letter pattern can stand for different sounds (COW and SNOW), and where similar sounds can be spelled in different ways (WAIT and WEIGHT). Second, we need to acknowledge and allow for the time it takes students to move toward fluent reading of a complex language, even when our instruction is excellent.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

After participating in the Omaha and Raleigh discussions, most of the 140 educators who attended expressed strong interest in participating in research, communicating their research needs to research bodies and/or co-designing research.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

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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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2016

Supporting students with disabilities is not only an important social justice issue, it is the law. Some of the ways CI faculty use VoiceThread include flipped student presentations, peer review, instructor video feedback, critical discussions, reflections, foreign language practice, mobile field trips and book conversations.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The six participating libraries include: The Public Library Albuquerque and Bernalillo County , Belen Public Library , Santa Fe Public Library and three of New Mexico’s Rural Bookmobiles: Bookmobile East ( Tucumcari ), Bookmobile Northeast (Cimarron Library) and Bookmobile West ( Los Lunas ).

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In fact, research shows that 80 percent of esports teams are comprised of students who have never before participated in extracurricular activities. Much like participation in an athletic team, esports players learn how to work together as an effective team by communicating and collaborating with each other. –Amy Gulley, M.Ed

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 17, 2015

Tech-infused alternatives to granular education activities such as note-taking, math, and reading allow students with specialized needs to use their abilities (strengths) to work around their disabilities (challenges). Stories are delivered in sign language by ASL master performers. No worries, though. Educational Applications.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 7, 2018

Thanks to improved access to digital technology, people who previously may have been left behind in a global learning experience are now able to participate. When we’re a global participant online, it’s easier to acknowledge others’ cultures, as we hope they will consider ours. .

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

In addition to funding, NewSchools provides management assistance and participation in a cohort experience. Our previous grant challenges have focused on science learning, middle and high school math, English Language Learners and students with disabilities. We can’t wait to see who will be in the new cohort.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Given how participating students have bolstered their foundational reading skills in Massachusetts and nationally with Ignite Reading, we are optimistic that this program will supercharge literacy progress in Fall River,” said Stephanie Kennedy, Director of English Language Arts K-12 of Fall River Public Schools. Hispanic, 11.9%

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It looks like KeeKo is able to assist the teacher in the classroom, and the students seem to be participating and enjoying the activity (access allowed only through YouTube). Robot teachers can integrate students with different learning styles, disabilities, or who speak different languages into the classroom better.

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