eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

“The State of Computer Science Education report shows that while investments and participation in computer science education have grown, the disparities in access are still profound. We need every state to require a computer science graduation requirement.” public high schools offer foundational computer science (up from 57.5

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2023

So, by adding gamification elements during teaching sessions, schools can significantly increase their participation and engagement levels. Students will find it hard to resist participating when a leaderboard out front announces current individual scores. It will also disable or freeze devices after repeated attempts at access.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2015

Understanding Dyslexia is an online program that helps teachers identify students who have dyslexia, a learning disability that affects as much as 10 percent of the population. Participants may earn three hours of continuing education credit for successfully completing the course. Nancy Mather, Ph.D., and Barbara J. Wendling, M.A.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The first complex challenge the UW College of Education will use AI-human collaboration to tackle is co-creating and co-evaluating Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) for students with disabilities in Wyoming and beyond. Serving as the cornerstone of special education ( Yell et al., under review ).

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2025

Over the past two years, Engage IRL has been the catalyst for increasing access and opportunities for K-12 students to participate in clubs, sports, arts activities, and other community events. Partnering with Special Olympics also helped SPS build new unified sports programs that gave children with disabilities a chance to play.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2023

Using the metaverse can assist greatly with this by providing the opportunity to invite students with different needs to participate in positive and engaging learning experiences. Many immersive learning experiences are difficult or impossible to access for students with physical disabilities or impairments.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2023

To test the intervention, approximately 50 public high school students from Jefferson City, Hallsville and Fulton will participate. Ultimately, we want the students to have the skills they need to increase academic engagement and decrease their disruptive behaviors so that they can access the school curriculum.”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2019

Recent projects implemented successfully at the Middletown Middle School in Ohio include the engineering/design challenge of creating throwing devices to help students with disabilities participate in the Special Olympics, and then working with those students to explain and test the devices.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2024

My role in launching specialized schools in Louisiana for students with low-incidence disabilities reinforced the importance of educational options, a need that is universal regardless of a student’s abilities, grade level, learning style, preferences, social class, and geographic location.

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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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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Over the last 30 years, federal laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) opened the door for more students with disabilities to enroll in college. Surprisingly, only one-third of students with disabilities reported it to their institution (NCES, 2022). Most common accommodations by students with disabilities.

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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

JUNE 3, 2016

Students with learning disabilities face the greatest challenges in access to reading year-round; and because of their disability, they are often left out of traditional programs, which can damage self-esteem and cause them to fall behind in school. to participate. million pages, culminating during Read Across America Day.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Ninety-four percent of participants successfully completed the program, and these equity liaisons have developed equity plans that are currently being rolled out to the teachers in their school. The outcomes were significant.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

I hear over and over that the main thing students are excited about is belonging to something: 40 percent of GSE athletes don’t participate in any other school activities but find community and belonging in esports. Some students playing esports have never been on a team before because they aren’t physically able to participate.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2022

According to researchers from the foundation, the participants in the study described problems with online trainings that were incompatible with screen-reading software or visual adjustments like changing the font size, with quizzes that didn’t work with a keyboard and with educational images and videos that weren’t verbally described.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Low participation in class or complete withdrawal can be a sign of student anxiety. Problems at home can cause sadness or hopelessness, unrealistic expectations can lead to perfectionism and hidden disabilities can cause shame as students fall behind in class. Perhaps their academic performance dropped off for no apparent reason.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Additionally, their administration requested and participated in a unique learning opportunity this past spring with Illuminate’s Learning and Development Team.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Teachers must employ cultural scaffolding to help diverse students use their backgrounds to enhance academic achievement, including collaborative learning opportunities that empower students to participate actively in decision-making processes. Despite its advantages, CRT faces challenges.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

More than 10,000 educators participated in the training over the course of four weeks, with registrations from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Canada. This is not the first time Winsor Learning has provided its resources at no cost in response to COVID.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Younger students, and students with disabilities that impact executive function, struggle more in fully asynchronous learning environments, and may require adult supervision to work through asynchronous assignments. In many ways, asynchronous online learning is similar to homework.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

However, building community with Black women educators as a participant in the EdSurge Research and Abolitionist Teaching Network healing circle, showed me how the intersections also collide for other Black women educators. It can feel lonely and isolating balancing this fractured personhood.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

When I asked students, who were a mix of general education students and students with disabilities, to do Harvards Project Zeros see-think-wonder protocol, where they look at an image and consider the ideas and questions it brings up for them, I realized that many students had trouble with thinking and wondering.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

What she and about 100 other participants experienced now has a name: “Zoombombing.” The page walks through what controls conference organizers can use to secure meetings, remove participants, and disable screen-sharing and audio features that can be abused. Zoombombing doesn’t always involve internet strangers.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Research indicates that active participation leads to higher retention rates, which can be upwards of 60% for students engaged in interactive learning. Additionally, research shows that students who participate in hybrid learning tend to retain information better, as they actively engage with content rather than passively receiving it.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2020

A major sticking point is not the access gap, but provisions under three federal laws: the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Without a doubt, students with special needs deserve equal access to high quality education.

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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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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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The funding was led by Eric Reiner and Dan Povitsky of Vine Ventures , with participation from Global Founders Capital , Great Oaks and social media influencers Josh Richards, Griffin Johnson and Noah Beck of Gen Z-focused venture capital fund Animal Capital , among others. in funding to date.

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eSchool News

MAY 23, 2018

an inclusive education consultant and co-founder of the National Center on Inclusive Education, offered participants in the recent edWebinar, “ Inclusion is More Than ‘Just Being In ,’” a new way to define the term. Jorgensen, Ph.D., Jorgensen argued that there should be no prerequisites, especially regarding communication. “We

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

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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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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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This service aims to convey a speaker’s intended meaning in as few words as possible so that a reader can quickly understand the information and participate in the discussion.

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