eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

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. Ask relevant questions that are specific to their interests. Take time to ask questions about activities, events, or people and things you have in common.

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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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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 7, 2019

A Challenge-Based Learning model pioneered by Apple is now helping teachers engage middle school students in deep learning through projects that combine developing questions, investigating scientific phenomena, and solving problems in their classrooms, schools, and communities. Related content: How we built an immersive learning environment.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2023

Or they might find it challenging to compete against fellow students to become the first to finish a task or answer a question correctly via touchscreen. It will also disable or freeze devices after repeated attempts at access. In addition, it can be a rewarding experience to see the entire class cooperating to jointly solve a puzzle.

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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The contraband in question? Thus, the latest shot across the bow might seem an obvious solution: Disable distracting apps while leaving texts and calls unrestricted. France has banned them outright. Ontario restricts their use in all but a handful of cases. Smartphones, of course—or more specifically, smartphones in schools.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2025

The question was not How do we get kids off their phones? Partnering with Special Olympics also helped SPS build new unified sports programs that gave children with disabilities a chance to play. We know kids with disabilities are more likely to be underemployed as adults and not as connected to the community.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2023

Immersive learning makes it possible for students to reach learning objectives by activating their curiosity, and engaging with their questioning and experimentation, which ultimately helps in the development of useful problem-solving skills. For instance, imagine a class trip to study mountain ranges.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2025

Many of the top stories raise fundamental questions about higher education. The year ahead promises to raise plenty of surprising new questions. He says the question boils down to: Are colleges ready for a world without OPMs? Many Students Dont Inform Their Colleges About Their Disability. But the No. Thanks for reading!

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2019

As students watch, help them interpret the films you show, and give them direct invitations to ask questions and think critically about what they’re seeing on the screen. This moving documentary is about parents learning how to raise kids who are unlike themselves—whether they have a disability, identify as LGBTQ, or have committed a crime.

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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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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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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

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

MARCH 17, 2023

Supreme Court Case Brown versus Board of Education ruled that it was unconstitutional to segregate schools by race, and in 1975 Public Law 94-142 federally mandated that all children in the United States had a right to a free, appropriate public education, even if they had learning or physical disabilities (Dalien, 2022).

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

Let’s unravel these questions. The clever integration of UDL into e-learning makes digital learning platforms effective for all learners, including those who might have disabilities or undiagnosed learning difficulties. But how does the concept of Universal Design Learning (UDL) fit into all this?

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2024

Beyond removing jargon, consider a glossary for handbooks with links within the policy to appropriate links for the terms in question. As more than a quarter of Americans have some type of disability, for full enfranchisement, documents must be fully accessible. Accessibility goes beyond text size.

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2022

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. When questionable behaviors manifest, teachers need to determine what’s behind them before intervening effectively. The student success rate increased.

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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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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

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

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles? This shift raises questions about the efficacy and long-term viability of conventional education methods. As a result, your role involves creating a learning atmosphere that encourages questioning and exploration.

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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?”

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2023

In this session, which will have a special emphasis on mental health, disability, and neurodiversity, an autistic librarian will share tips and recommendations for making your library a place where everyone can belong. How can you discern between respectful representation and harmful stereotypes? And what is up with #OwnVoices?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2019

Curriculum itself must be personalized in order to truly meet the needs of students with learning disabilities. Curriculum itself must be personalized in order to truly meet the needs of students with learning disabilities. Personalized Learning: Meeting the needs of students with disabilities. Bring on the learning revolution!

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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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Algorithmic bias cropping up in the hiring process prompted guidance from the Justice Department and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to help businesses and government agencies keep their AI-empowered employment practices in line with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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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

JUNE 3, 2016

Sample questions are provided for many of the specific standards. Here are a handful of free apps that teachers can use with ELL students, students with disabilities (SWD), and struggling readers to scaffold instruction to meet these increased academic demands. Understanding the standards is only the first step.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2020

Alternatively, the Windows app store sells a program called Webcam System Settings that you can use to disable autofocus and adjust other camera parameters. Select the following configuration options in Zoom: Disable join before host. I particularly like questions that let the students “brag” about something they did.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In schools, sensory spaces have traditionally been used by students with special needs, such as those on the autism spectrum or those with severe/profound cognitive, intellectual, and/or motor disabilities. Building your own sensory space As an OT, I always ask the question, “What does a sensory space look like for you?”

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

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. 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

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).

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