eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In 1990, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) renewed our national focus on the least-restrictive environment. We began providing accommodations through differentiated instruction and teachers figured out what to change or modify to accommodate “disabled” learners.

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2024

That level of transparency requires three primary things: context, the use of vernacular and understandable language in an accessible format, and routine use. We are regularly told to avoid jargon and put materials into accessible language. This allows for deeper dives, interactive learning, and space for questions.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

For more than a decade, University of Kansas researchers have been developing a virtual reality system to help students with disabilities, especially those with autism spectrum disorder, to learn, practice and improve social skills they need in a typical school day. Right now, the closest we can come to that is training peers.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2025

The question was not How do we get kids off their phones? Creating opportunities for all kids Key to Engage IRLs success was ensuring partnerships and programs were centered in equity, allowing every child to participate regardless of ability, financial or transportation constraints, or language barriers.

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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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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. For both novice and veteran teachers, Poe.com provides access to a behavior intervention bot in real-time to help with questions that might arise with paperwork or strategies for student behavior.

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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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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. Did we meet our programmatic goals this year? How do we compare to last year?

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eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2016

The Common Core app organizes the Common Core standards by subject area (math traditional, math integrated, language arts, history/Social Studies, and science and technology) and grade level. This particular app seems to include more resources for the primary grades and contains more extensive mathematics than English Language Arts resources.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

The teacher uses guided reading strategies, asking questions that help students focus on basic elements like characters and setting before discussing the moral. The teacher uses questioning techniques to encourage students to cite textual evidence supporting their understanding of the story’s moral.

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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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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This project started with a deceptively simple question: What arent our students telling us? I wanted to change thatnot just by asking better questions, but by building an open-access platform that would amplify student voices and inform actionable change. Not because they lacked courage, but because they didnt feel invited to speak.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2019

An Individualized Education Plan (IEP) attempts to not only identify areas of challenge for a student—fine motor skills, language development, reading and comprehension, written and verbal language skills, social interaction, etc.—but Personalized Learning: Meeting the needs of students with disabilities.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Super Duper Publications’ Jeepers Peepers The “Ask and Answer” Question Game has earned a 2020 National Parenting Product Award (NAPPA). They then ask other family members questions such as “Am I an animal? This popular family favorite won in the Best Board & Card Games category. Am I a worker?” About Super Duper Publications.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2020

The necessary and rapid move to distance learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been disabling for our education system. We asked the same questions to more than 1,000 special educators and they added feeling exhausted, frustrated and confused. And our teachers are under tremendous pressure.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

As schools, teachers and families face the shock of abruptly shifting to online education, one small question has been how to shift these read alouds to Zoom, Facebook, Google Hangouts and YouTube, the spaces where many classes continue to meet. The short answer is, well, yes. In the U.S.,

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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. They also addressed audience questions about how to get faculty motivated to adjust their courses to improve accessibility. For that,] a text-to-speech software saves us.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Worries about using AI for academic help and answering questions led to many discussions on its role in the classroom. By analyzing patterns in students’ grades, attendance, participation, and other behavioral indicators, AI algorithms can predict potential academic risks and learning disabilities.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

This thread of inequity continues through other groups of students such as English Language Learners and Students with Disabilities. This is the question we are always asking ourselves and working toward in our professional development for educators and educational leaders. We are clearly not serving our Black students.

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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. W]hen I think about UDL, that's the question I'm looking for: How am I going to engage all learners?

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2022

There's one fundamental question that I ask myself, and it's always, “How do I create a content lesson so that it is engaging for all learners?” Meeks: There's one fundamental question that I ask myself, and it's always, “How do I create a content lesson so that it is engaging for all learners?” How can I make it fun? That was huge!

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It can handle a variety of language tasks, including answering questions, writing essays, generating creative content, offering explanations, giving advice, and engaging in natural-sounding conversations” (as explained by ChatGPT itself). What is ChatGPT?

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

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. In Butash’s district, school officials have disabled the camera and muted the microphone for students upon joining a Zoom conference.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In my first-grade classroom, a third of my students were learning English as a second language. That means that a student with a disability (cognitive, physical, or learning) will be able to engage and interact with the content in the same way a student without a disability can. Evaluating accessibility.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

This begs the question: What’s next for education? Oftentimes, when a person reaches their forties, a big life question ensues. “Is 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).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

I’m a special education teacher serving students in a self-contained class, and all of my students have moderate to severe learning disabilities including ADHD, intellectual disabilities, emotional disabilities, specific learning disabilities and autism spectrum disorder. John’s sharp intellect was apparent.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

Yet the rapid transition to a new instructional territory called into question everything we thought we knew about our educational systems. Moskowitz says, “ Their reading analysis skills have increased as they contemplate how poets might have felt and why they chose that particular language.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Brick and mortar charter schools have been known to use questionable (and unethical) recruitment techniques and “counseling out” poor standardized test-takers. Charter schools have been known to cherry pick students by race, class and even disability levels. In fact, charter schools have been accused of re-segregation.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

In other words: no world language program = no diploma. World Languages Maine is a large—and largely rural—state, with a dwindling student population. World languages have been some of the most difficult positions to fill, yet they are a requirement for earning a proficiency-based diploma. Special Education.

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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. My department simultaneously professed concern while ignoring my needs and rights under the American Disabilities Act. It took four more years to get it fully under control.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

As these tools become more integrated into the classroom, teachers will want to ensure that all students, including those with disabilities or language barriers, are being supported. Literacy and Curriculum, Certified Academic Language Therapist C.A.L.T Literacy and Curriculum, Certified Academic Language Therapist C.A.L.T

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2023

The report revealed that school connectedness was low among racial and ethnic minorities, LGBQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Questioning, Other Non-Heterosexual Identity) and female students. What remains less clear is the impact that SEL programming has on marginalized youth.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

That thorny question is still being negotiated. Some should focus on how to use AI to increase equity, by, say, supporting students with disabilities and students who are English language learners, according to the Education Department report. But what does AI mean for education broadly? At the moment, more research is needed.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

This is especially true when the conversation shifts to groups of students who have been marginalized by race, culture, language, family income, or disability. Can we answer this question satisfactorily for our students? … I have had the humbling opportunity of deeply listening to students. Related Posts.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

These questions have been circulating for years, as schools have increasingly embraced technology to aid in learning. But now, with entire school systems using technology as a means to access learning, those questions are growing in volume and urgency. How is that data being used? Who has access to it? And how long is it kept?

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2021

The question was, how? 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. We had to do better.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In SSR, the question, “What would a good adult reader do?” In SSR, the question, “What would a good adult reader do?” Are there any limitations or drawbacks of SSR for certain groups of learners, for instance, English language learners? SSR works incredibly well with language learners. is helpful. “I is helpful.

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