Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s Time for All Schools to Learn How to Support Neurodivergence At the start of this school year, there were about 7.3 million students in public K-12 schools in the United States who qualified for special education services. One size fits some and benefits less — not all students — in education.

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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). He explains his specific learning needs and calls on all educators to see life from his and millions of other students’ perspective.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Marisa Kaplan: I spent 11 years in classrooms in New York City as a special-education teacher, an ELA teacher and an instructional coach. One of my early teaching jobs was as a special-education teacher in a first-grade inclusion class, and some of our students had motor impairments, used wheelchairs and walkers.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

This principle of “high expectations, flexible means” comes from Katie Novak’s work on Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Universal Design for Learning Guidelines version 2.2. We feel, therefore we learn: The relevance of affective and social neuroscience to education. Mind, Brain, and Education , 1 (1), 3–10.

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Elevate k12

JUNE 24, 2024

It’s an especially severe problem for specialist roles, as seen in the special education teacher shortage. The crisis in public education is widening student achievement gaps, causing a dangerous feedback loop that disproportionately affects Black students, low-income students , and students with special educational needs.

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