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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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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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New PD focuses on dyslexia

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Program aims to help K-12 teachers identify students who may have dyslexia and teach these students how to read. Understanding Dyslexia is an online program that helps teachers identify students who have dyslexia, a learning disability that affects as much as 10 percent of the population.

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Where Does Personalized Learning End and Special Education Begin?

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I’ve committed to personalizing learning, but how can I do that for every student in my inclusion classroom when the range of abilities among them is so vast? This is my third year teaching at William Penn High School in the Colonial School District in New Castle, Delaware. Does personalized learning mean every student gets an IEP?

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Inside the unique STEM school for students with learning difficulties

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But in the world of special education, these numbers take on a special significance. Ellis Crasnow, the director of a newly-opened high school in Los Angeles devoted to STEM-related schools to students with learning difficulties, such as autism. “It teaches you to be analytical; it teaches a kind of exactness.”.

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Steps Toward Creating a More Accessible and Inclusive College Classroom

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Creating a classroom in the service of social justice (The Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, 2008) requires a profound understanding of the impact of human diversity on teaching and learning (Cushner et al., Avoid negative descriptions of disability (ex: suffers from a condition, confined/bound to a wheelchair).

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AI is the solution to costly and ineffective dyslexia programs

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1 Within this larger pool, a core group is considered to have a reading disability or dyslexia. Orton’s work on dyslexia started in the 1920s and led to multisensory teaching techniques due to his (incorrect) hypothesis that dyslexia was vision-based. Feasibility of implementation Cost Special ed: U.S. 20k+ per year).