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Leveraging AI to help special education teachers

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Key points: AI helps reduce workload and pressure on special education staff Enhancing learning through AI and human educators 5 critical priorities for AI in education For more news on AI, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Technology has long been viewed as having the promise to make schools more effective and educators more efficient.

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Study from EPS Learning on Improving Literacy Outcomes for Special Education Students Meets ESSA Level 3 Evidence Standards

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The study’s positive, statistically significant findings support a relationship between SPIRE progress and improved literacy skills for special education students. The program incorporates evidence-based best practices for reading and language development.

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An AI Wish List From Teachers: What They Actually Want It to Do

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Tasks, Tasks and More Tasks The most consistent theme among educators is a desire for AI to tackle time-consuming, repetitive tasks that don’t require human judgment or relationship-building. That’s a game-changer for differentiation,” says Kim Zajac, a speech and language pathologist at Norton Public School in Massachusetts.

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Students Are Slipping Through the Cracks of Special Education. Schools Must Do Better.

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After some investigating on my part, I learned that Jason had been with the school district since second grade. If I did a lot of digging and the results were dismal, what could his teachers know from year to year as he transitioned from grade to grade? The truth is, they couldn’t.

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SEL Can Help Special Educators Address Rapidly Evolving Remote Learning Requirements

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A third challenge resulting from the pandemic has been how teachers should address the rapidly evolving requirements for remote learning—from what goals to teach to, to logging instructional hours, addressing absenteeism and cataloging evidence of learning—for their students with special education needs.

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Where Does Personalized Learning End and Special Education Begin?

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Dually certified in special education and English Language Arts, I teach an ELA inclusion class to 11th and 12th graders, which means I serve students with and without Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) in the same setting. There are different types of learning environments that serve students with special needs.

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AI is the solution to costly and ineffective dyslexia programs

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For example, the Shaywitz DyslexiaScreen (Yale) is a survey that asks teachers to make judgments on how often they think a student displays problems in their language behaviors such as oral expression. This ignores the language processing differences between typical and exceptional brains. 20k+ per year).