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Transitioning to a workload approach in K-12 special education

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Key points: Transitioning to a workload approach offers room for more effective and personalized support See article: Is the ‘Growing Your Own’ pipeline working for special ed teachers? Special education providers continue to use the caseload approach to guide them in counting the number of students they are expected to provide services to.

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3 strategies to optimize virtual learning in special education

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Special education was one of the areas hit hardest, with 45 percent of schools needing to fill positions. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates 37,600 yearly openings for special education teachers over the next decade. Unfortunately, this trend is expected to continue, as the U.S.

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Minority children underrepresented in special education

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Special education programs have been the target of legal challenges on the grounds of discrimination and racial bias, yet the study found that minority children are underdiagnosed across five disability conditions for which U.S. schoolchildren commonly receive special education services.

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Navigating Special Education with Open Communication

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Expert IEP founder Antoinette Banks outlines how special education has been chronically underfunded for decadesand how the potential dismantling of the Department of Education adds new complications. There’s so much happening with special education, and I know that on some days it seems we have a million moving parts.

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Flipped learning is changing the face of special ed

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Hill was speaking at a June 17 briefing on Capitol Hill that focused on the intersection of technology and special education. have some kind of learning disability, said Kim Hines, associate director for the National Center for Learning Disabilities. million children in the U.S. million children in the U.S.

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How a collaborative mindset helps teachers reach all learners

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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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Early screening and intervention are the key to math success

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But there’s a similar learning disability that is holding back the achievement of students in mathematics, and it’s much less widely known. million students–about the population of Kansas–with some degree of math learning disability. Yet, dyscalculia remains dramatically under-identified among students.

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