eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Potential of AI for accessibility AI tools can significantly improve personalized learning by tailoring educational content to meet the unique needs and preferences of each student, especially those with disabilities.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

Today, a staggering nearly one in 10 children have a developmental disability, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Five ways that schools, educators, and communities can support neurodiverse students in the classroom: 1.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Authored by Fernanda Pérez Perez, a recipient of The Blaschke Fellowship, the report explores the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance educational accessibility and support for students, particularly those with disabilities. I look forward to sharing this report far and wide.” “At

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

One significant development is collaborative e-learning, which integrates social interactions among peers and teachers. From podcasts, YouTube captions, personalized learning dashboards, and social annotation, teachers now have a variety of e-learning methods at their disposal.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

And teachers across the country reenact the scene daily—or did until a few weeks ago. 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.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2016

When special and general ed teachers collaborate, everyone benefits. General education teachers have had to learn and apply new instructional strategies to address the new standards and the vision that the standards embody, particularly universal design for learning. This can be a stressful time for everyone.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2024

His ambitions to learn were thwarted because his teacher had assigned handouts and a three-week-long lesson plan that relied on a website that wasn’t easy for him to navigate. Like Jacob, many students with disabilities are forced to work extra, advocates argue. Will all this translate to greater access for disabled students?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

As 2023 winds down, it is important to note this trend and its origins from use primarily in special education to the current, continuing shift towards universal design and inclusion. Just like our students, teachers need to be mindful and practice taking regular sensory breaks. What is a sensory space?

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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. We, as an education community, must commit to the principles of Universal Design for Learning for the benefit of all learners.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

I first realized I wanted to be a teacher around the same time I received my first mental health diagnosis. Instead of seeking help, I would isolate myself and create self-destructive narratives about how awful of a teacher I was. To make matters worse, I had a mentor teacher who made sure I knew I wasnt doing a good job.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2020

This is the first of a three-part series looking at how social-emotional learning strategies can support teachers of students with learning differences during the pandemic. The necessary and rapid move to distance learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been disabling for our education system.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

While the authors of the 2017 National Educational Technology Plan recommended that, “every new teacher should be prepared to model how to select and use the most appropriate apps and tools to support learning and evaluate these tools against basic privacy and security standards,” this has not come to fruition.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2024

In the United States, there are over 15,000 esports teams in K-12 schools, and many esports teams and programs emphasize access to students with disabilities. The series concluded with a “Getting Started” session, where teachers were introduced to the game's mechanics and the educator and student guides for participation.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

This is the second of a three-part series looking at how social-emotional learning strategies can support teachers of students with learning differences during the pandemic. In an earlier essay, we discussed how teachers are leaning into SEL to adapt student services and unlock opportunities that, just months ago, may have seemed impossible.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2023

Kumar has been a teacher for 19 years and is passionate about creating a learning environment that fosters critical thinking, collaboration and creativity among her students. One group of students used AI in education, which helps children get personalized learning experiences such as through a Universal Design for Learning approach.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2022

The Academically Intellectually Gifted (AIG) Certified and Talent Development (TD) Catalyst teacher works with groups of gifted and advanced learners across the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district in North Carolina. And on top of all that, she’s a mentor and coach to new teachers. You have a teacher mode and a play mode.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

Tony Wan, Managing Editor Access and Equity How can we accommodate students who have learning disabilities in online instruction and practice universal design principles? If possible, teachers and professors should use multiple modes of conveying information (video, audio, text slides, etc.) The Power of Words (grade 3).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s every kid in this grade,” her teacher said. Her teacher said something to me from across the table that made me stop in my tracks: “Your daughter is taking instructional time away from the other students in my class.” Teachers and school leaders must start recognizing variability in development as the norm.

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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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Incorporating Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in online courses not only benefits students with disabilities, but can have significant benefits for all students, ultimately increasing retention and improving learning outcomes. Time strapped teachers need support—we all know this. high school to focus big on coding.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Efforts to include all individuals, including those with disabilities in educational settings should prioritize specific measures to ensure their full participation in all activities. Access: Building Bridges to Opportunity Accessible Course Design Accessibility in online education goes beyond compliance with legal requirements.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 11, 2019

Thank you, Jane, Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, for writing a quick overview of that topic’s intersection with education. . Even though 86% of universities currently educate students with disabilities, only 24% of the schools say that they offer those students assistance “to a major extent.”

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Efforts to include all individuals, including those with disabilities in educational settings should prioritize specific measures to ensure their full participation in all activities. Access: Building Bridges to Opportunity Accessible Course Design Accessibility in online education goes beyond compliance with legal requirements.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2015

High school senior at Newton North High School in Newton, MA, Yishai Barth, feels strongly about the importance of Universal Design Language (UDL). By sharing his specific needs with teachers, needs that are faced by millions of students across the world, he hopes to provide help in supporting their learning.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

However, these old-fashioned assessment techniques often create new barriers to learning, especially for disabled students, English language learners, neurodiverse students, and any other students that rely on technology to aid their thinking, communication, and learning. Universal Design for Learning Guidelines version 2.2.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

However, these old-fashioned assessment techniques often create new barriers to learning, especially for disabled students, English language learners, neurodiverse students, and any other students that rely on technology to aid their thinking, communication, and learning. Universal Design for Learning Guidelines version 2.2.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A study conducted in 2017 (Ng) demonstrated the value of descriptive hyperlinks and stated everyone can benefit from universal design. Developing preservice teachers’ equity consciousness and equity literacy. Accessibility within open educational resources and practices for disabled learners: A systematic literature review.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A study conducted in 2017 (Ng) demonstrated the value of descriptive hyperlinks and stated everyone can benefit from universal design. Developing preservice teachers’ equity consciousness and equity literacy. Accessibility within open educational resources and practices for disabled learners: A systematic literature review.

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Elevate k12

JUNE 24, 2024

School teachers say they’re battling to reach students while facing their own problems of understaffing, low salaries, and scarce resources. American schools have high student-to-teacher ratios driven by a massive K-12 teacher shortage. American children are struggling. Where did it all go wrong?

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

It is important that situational factors be identified as a key component to make planning decisions since retrofitting ones instructional design, delivery or assessment only after one finds out who is being instructed, are not effective use of faculty time, effort or university resources (Schreiner, Rothernberger and Scoltz, 2013).

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

It is important that situational factors be identified as a key component to make planning decisions since retrofitting ones instructional design, delivery or assessment only after one finds out who is being instructed, are not effective use of faculty time, effort or university resources (Schreiner, Rothernberger and Scoltz, 2013).

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

Thrive Online: A New Approach for College Educators ,” by Shannon Riggs (book), dispels myths about online education and emphasizes the importance of course design and facilitation. “ Cali Morrison , associate dean of alternative learning at American Public University System. Jessica Valera, science teacher.

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eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2025

Today, nearly one in 10 children have a developmental disability, according to the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Consider individualized support Teachers can work closely with students to develop personalized learning plans and strategies that address their unique needs.

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