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When the Variability of All Learners Is Addressed

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Bringing together more than 100 organizations across the fields of disability advocacy, special education, civil rights and K-12 nonprofits, the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is one such network formed to ensure equity and support for students with disabilities and learning differences across education environments.

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How to Serve Students With Special Needs From Afar

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About 14 percent of all public school students receive special education services, and for many of them the switch to remote learning has been difficult on families and the schools that teach them every day. What is Universal Design for Learning? How are schools adjusting? What resources are they turning to?

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Our Nation’s Public Schools are Failing Neurodivergent Learners. That Needs to Change.

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million students in public K-12 schools in the United States who qualified for special education services. billion in implementing evidence-based practices in schools nationwide to support special education students, including increased resources for staffing and implementing diversified instructional practices.

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Special Ed Students Have Lost Many Services. Here’s How SEL Strategies Can Help.

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All teachers and students are currently experiencing challenges with accessibility, the promotion of emotional and physical wellness, and academic progress—issues that the special education community knows all too well. Can best practice be translated to this way of educating? And our teachers are under tremendous pressure.

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With Innovation and Empathy, Remote Learning Becomes Accessible for All Students

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And most critically, are the materials appropriately differentiated for students who learn and think differently, and have they been universally designed with learner variability in mind? Would it be easier to navigate if organized by subject or project?

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How to Build an Online Learning Program Students Crave and Employers Want

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What’s made the work possible, Schneider says, is a special combination of online learning tools that is helping NAIT educate students so they are prepared for the complexities and responsibilities of real world situations from the day they graduate. Video Podcast - Education and Industry, Working Together.

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How I Navigate the Classroom as a Neurodivergent Teacher

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As it turns out, the checklist format is a recurring accommodation given to many students with IEPs and is often discussed outside the context of special education as chunking. I believe my disabilities are not a burden to my teaching practice because I know the importance of scaffolds, accommodations and universal design learning.

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