k12 Digest

JUNE 30, 2025

Why Protocol Needs AI AI doesn’t replace soft skills and would never, but it elevates them. Microlearning modules can now be powered by AI to address exactly what a learner needs whether it’s understanding Chinese banquet etiquette or mastering the language of leadership in West Africa. This is not science fiction. It’s already here.

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Elevate k12

JULY 3, 2025

In many districts, the programs at risk are the same ones that support compliance with federal education laws: Title III-supported English language services, Special Education instruction, and after-school accommodations often written into IEPs. For district leaders, compliance is becoming both more expensive and less predictable.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

This foundational knowledge includes study skills. Have all students set skill-based goals at the beginning of the year. Others may feel disengaged because the work is unchallenging or stressed because they lack the study skills needed to find success.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 27, 2025

Vision Board Project & Rubric – Back-to-School, New Year, End-of-Year Activities By Jenn Liu — Engaging to Empower Grades: 9th-12th Subjects: Life Skills Teach middle and high school students how to make a vision board using this no-prep, interactive Google Slides lesson!

Learning Disabilities 52

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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.

Language 291

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2020

may have fallen critically behind in the basic skills they need to become good readers and be successful in school. The HearBuilder online, research-based, foundational literacy program provides an excellent way for students to build their early education and literacy skills. Sequencing. Auditory/Listening Memory and Comprehension.

Skills 246

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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.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

The status quo fails to capture the full spectrum of an individual’s range of skills and creates a bias favoring credentialed learning, which hurts the nearly 70 percent of Americans who don’t have a college degree. Up until recently, skills-based data has been siloed. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo.

Language 174

Language Languages Skills Disabilities 174

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

I shared strategies designed to develop self-regulation skills, sustain effort and persistence, and recruit interest. Different learners enjoy engaging with information in different formats, and some learners have sensory or perceptual disabilities that make it challenging to interact with information presented in traditional print formats.

Universal Design 546

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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.

Language 189

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2019

Many of those struggling were English-language learners (ELLs) whose English proficiency wasn’t at the level needed to comprehend challenging texts within these exams. Some were students with learning disabilities. Related: School leaders reveal the common sense keys to ELL success.

English 210

English Language Languages Learning Disabilities 210

Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

The same class may have students who don’t have the necessary prior knowledge or language skills to understand the information presented. The class may include students with a hearing impairment, auditory processing disorder, or attention deficit disorder. Teachers want all students to be successful.

Blended Learning 545

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2017

It is an umbrella term for the neurologically-based skills involving mental control and self-regulation.”. The skills that comprise executive functioning are not definitively agreed upon by educators and researchers. Guy, and Lauren Kenworthy have identified, through their own research, a proposed list of executive functioning skills.

Skills 223

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

She wanted me to know that although she could not yet speak English, she felt confident as a learner in her first language. Research shows that students who are classified as English language learners may be perceived by teachers as less capable than their non-ELL peers. It’s so important that Esther spoke up about this.

English 200

English Language Languages Teachers 200

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

1 Within this larger pool, a core group is considered to have a reading disability or dyslexia. Worse, some screeners do not even test students’ skills. This ignores the language processing differences between typical and exceptional brains. Dyslexia was later proven to be language-based.) 20k+ per year).

Disabilities 282

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

With the rise of AI and increase in employers who say AI skills will be a necessary component for workplace success, learning computer science is more critical than ever. “The data is clear: computer science equips students with essential skills for future careers in all industries.

Science 338

Science Accessibility Education STEM 338

eSchool News

JULY 15, 2024

This increase–driven by improved identification and diagnosis, heightened awareness, advocacy, and broader definitions of disabilities–presents substantial challenges for school districts. Academically, they may fall behind in acquiring essential skills like reading, writing, and math. million over the past decade.

Disabilities 291

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Super Duper currently offers a successful line of occupational therapy products, including best-sellers like Yogarilla , Sensory Diet Cards and the Pre-Handwriting Fun Deck which address areas of development such as gross motor/bilateral coordination, sensory integration, visual perception, and fine motor skills.

Disabilities 267

Disabilities Learning Disabilities Learning Styles Language 267

eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2021

According to the Centers for Disease Control, approximately one out of every 54 children has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, making it one of the most common developmental disabilities in the USA. I also use the autism assessments on Super Duper’s site,” said Thaashida Hutton, a speech language pathologist in New York.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

was first spoken during the height of gang wars in Los Angeles, when I was a new speech language pathologist in the Los Angeles Unified School District. More than 30 years later, I now work at a 700-student elementary school in Washington state and I have a caseload of 50 students consisting of varying disabilities.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Adjusting to a rigorous curriculum, learning new skills and understanding the nuances of classroom learning are just a few of the many pressures students face. For students with learning disabilities such as dyslexia and related language processing difficulties, these struggles are amplified even in the most ideal learning environments.

Assistive Technology 213

Assistive Technology Learning Disabilities Disabilities Technology 213

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Concerns about academic dishonesty, loss of critical thinking skills, and inappropriate content creation have sparked discussions about banning AI tools like ChatGPT, Grammarly, and others. This skill–information literacy–is essential in today’s information-saturated world. Rethinking AI as a tool for empowerment 1.

Ethics 329

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2025

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. There are barriers to finding community for some kids, she shared.

Disabilities 290

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The movie model, I learned, underplays the extent to which a school’s success depends on collaboration and on an interconnected web of complementary skills of teachers and school staff. They need school staff who speak the home languages of the students and teachers who reflect the students’ ethnic, religious, and racial backgrounds.

Teaching 296

Teaching Social Studies History Disabilities 296

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Students are grouped based on their skill or ability levels and rotate through all the stations. Teacher 1: Provides targeted instruction tailored to each group’s needs, abilities, and skill levels. Teacher 2: Delivers the same instructional content or activity to all groups, regardless of their skill levels.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2018

When I was in middle school, I was diagnosed with a learning disability, so the “typical” school experience was always a challenge for me. As a teacher of world language, I want my students to realize that you don’t have to learn Spanish by studying verb conjugations out of a textbook every day.

Language 127

Language Languages Culture Learning Disabilities 127

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. Today it sits at 9.5

Teaching 204

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

As the skills expected of today’s graduates change rapidly, school districts have to overhaul their thinking on what it means to be “college and career ready.” It is difficult for the 1,200-student district to offer STEM, foreign language or Advanced Placement courses year-round. New skills for a new economy.

Disabilities 279

Disabilities Textbooks High School High School 279

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].” of Australian undergraduate students reported having a learning disability.

Disabilities 98

Disabilities Learning Spaces Universal Design Learning Disabilities 98

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].” of Australian undergraduate students reported having a learning disability.

Disabilities 98

Disabilities Learning Spaces Universal Design Learning Disabilities 98

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.

Achievement 163

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eSchool News

MAY 3, 2017

CCC-SLP, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Center for Communication Enhancement and the Autism Language Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, discussed some innovative communication tips for students with autism. In “ Communication Innovations for Individuals with Autism ,” Howard C. Shane, Ph.D., Shane, Ph.D.,

Communication 197

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

One in ten people have dyslexia, and in the US, 12% of students are in special education, 15% of children at school are learning their 2nd language, and the average reading age is 7th to 8th grade. has developed technology tools and curriculum that have helped students and educators build literacy skills. “Don Johnston Inc.

Assistive Technology 246

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eSchool News

JULY 29, 2016

Here are 5 apps to help children and adults with autism develop skills, learn, and interact better with others. Designed for young children with autism and other learning disabilities, Kindergarden.com has created flash card apps to stimulate learning and provide tools and strategies for creative, effective language building.

Learning Disabilities 189

Learning Disabilities Disabilities Special Education Language 189

EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Adjusting to a rigorous curriculum, learning new skills and understanding the nuances of classroom learning are just a few of the many pressures students face. For students with learning disabilities such as dyslexia and related language processing difficulties, these struggles are amplified even in the most ideal learning environments.

Assistive Technology 155

Assistive Technology Learning Disabilities Disabilities Technology 155

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2024

Her words describe the transformative power of reading — a skill that, unlike spoken language, humans are not naturally hardwired to master. Language comprehension involves developing background knowledge for context and mastering language structures, such as grammar and syntax, to make sense of sentences and larger texts.

Science 174

Science Reading Interdisciplinary Language 174

eSchool News

MAY 16, 2024

Most notably, analysis of the platform data showed that for over a third (36%) of chats, students wanted to process feelings and feel heard, outranking other session purposes like building a skill or receiving advice about a problem. ” Dr. .” More than 78% reported difficulty in hiring special education staff. Yet more than 7.5

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