eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The most common of all neuro-cognitive disorders, dyslexia impacts about 20 percent of the US population and represents 80-90 percent percent of all individuals who have learning disabilities. Related: Decoding supercalifragilisticexpialidocious with dyslexia 3 keys to teaching students with dyslexia to read.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2018

It’s hard to overemphasize the importance of teaching our students how to use technology appropriately and responsibly. The students in our classrooms are unique, each with their own individual learning needs. So how can you best think about teaching these critical skills to your students with learning and attention issues?

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MAY 18, 2025

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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

On top of this, only one-third (33 percent) of surveyed educators feel that they have the support they need from their district and school leadership to successfully implement generative AI into their teaching.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Eventually, I felt I had no choice but to finally take my son for a thorough evaluation that revealed not only ADHD but also dyslexia and dysgraphia, a writing-related learning disability. Teaching dyslexic students requires more than just following a curriculum. schools goes from a simmer to a boil.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2015

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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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

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. 15 The largest category is learning disabilities, mainly dyslexia.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2023

However, many students from schools that aren’t designated for Title I support and who haven’t been diagnosed with a learning disability struggle with reading as well. Students who have an Individualized Educational Plan (IEP) , as well as those from Title I schools, typically receive special attention and services.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Winsor Learning provides Orton-Gillingham, science-based reading, teaching materials, and professional development using its best-in-class Sonday System® programs and training. Winsor Learning, the publisher of the Sonday System, believes in giving children their best chance to succeed in school.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

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.”. The STEM3 Academy — that’s STEM cubed — was started by the Help Group , an L.A.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2019

Although many students have logistical circumstances keeping them from being successful—homelessness, employment, learning disabilities, etc.—many As a public high school administrator, I lead interventions for students in poor academic standing. many of them are school avoidant because of anxiety that is, quite frankly, debilitating.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2019

Curriculum itself must be personalized in order to truly meet the needs of students with learning disabilities. Curriculum itself must be personalized in order to truly meet the needs of students with learning disabilities. Math is his favorite subject, and he enjoys learning it. Bring on the learning revolution!

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2017

Problem-based learning through Discovery Education and NextLesson are changing the way students learn and teachers teach at Cox Middle and across the district. — Parent and community support are strong. But this is only the beginning. Dr. Tim Webb, principal of E.A. Cox Middle School in the Maury County School District (TN).

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

. – Riverside Insights ®, a leading developer of research-based assessments and analytics, today debuted a new Assessment Playbook focused on streamlining the evaluation of dyslexia, the most common learning disability, affecting 20% of the population.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

Here are two case studies of how carefully planned and executed pilots helped districts make informed choices—and improve teaching and learning. Listen and Learn. Central Falls School District, Rhode Island. Becky Oristaglio, Speech and Language Pathologist.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Parallel’s platform provides cross-disciplinary support services to diagnose, teach and empower students with learning and thinking differences directly to families and to school districts on a contractual basis. Executive Function Coaching ?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

In a recent report by the National Center for Education Statistics, it was found that among the 15 percent of students receiving special education services, the largest proportions have specific learning disabilities (32 percent) and speech or language impairments (19 percent).

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In the quest for educational equity, it is essential that all students, especially those with specific learning disabilities (SLDs) in reading and math, receive the support they need to succeed. public schools are identified as having specific learning disabilities (SLDs). Here are some key points: Prevalence : About 4.8

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2015

UDL is tough enough in a face-to-face environment, but the real challenge might be how to implement the principles in an online world where students’ abilities and learning styles differ drastically. Knowing Where to Start.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In this monthly column, I share the most popular post from the past month on my writer’s blog, WordDreams : Surprisingly, 15-20% of the population has a language-based learning disability and over 65% of those are deficits in reading. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

It’s not ‘What do I plan to teach today?’ but rather ‘What do these individual students need to learn today?’”. For the core courses, PGA employs its own local teachers, who oversee instruction for students whether learning at home or at school. “Our teachers are rock stars,” said Heather Hiebsch, PGA principal.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

Based on the assessment system I use, many of my students were reading at a level between kindergarten and second grade, which is not ideal, given that I teach high schoolers. In my classroom, I usually teach English language arts in 70-minute blocks. To be clear, I don’t see John’s progress as a reflection of my teaching.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

Colleges have long had offices designed to support students who have learning disabilities and to encourage broader accessibility in the classroom and beyond. On the latest installment of our monthly online discussion forum, EdSurge Live , we explored accessibility in this unusual era of emergency remote teaching.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 8, 2023

With the implementation of AI, teachers can optimize grading, and replying to students to increase overall teaching efficiency. As a result, teachers can use that time for something more important such as educating themselves, improving lessons, and developing more engaging ways to teach.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

Tech giants Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have unintentionally assigned educators around the world major homework for the summer: Adjusting their assignments and teaching methods to adapt to a fresh batch of AI features that students will enter classrooms with in the fall. The tools are coming fast, though.

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OCTOBER 21, 2022

Surprisingly, 15-20% of the population has a language-based learning disability and over 65% of those are deficits in reading. Thankfully, the International Dyslexia Association sponsors an annual Dyslexia Awareness Month in October aimed to expand comprehension of this little-understood language-based learning condition. .

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Surprisingly, 15-20% of the population has a language-based learning disability and over 65% of those are deficits in reading. Thankfully, the International Dyslexia Association sponsors an annual Dyslexia Awareness Month in October aimed to expand comprehension of this little-understood language-based learning condition. .

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2019

Some were students with learning disabilities. Many of those struggling were English-language learners (ELLs) whose English proficiency wasn’t at the level needed to comprehend challenging texts within these exams.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2024

As a result, teaching students how to read is a complex and challenging endeavor — that’s why it takes years. Imagine Learning EL Education aligns with the concept of high-quality instructional materials (HQIMs). Reading requires building connections in the brain that wouldn’t exist without explicit instruction.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And universal assessments that test multilingual students in English can provide inaccurate information that teachers use to guide their practice or can wrongly indicate learning disabilities. Just the recognition of this counter narrative has changed my teaching. It’s just my students and I, without a live interpreter.

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MARCH 19, 2024

How do I teach keyboarding? So I enthusiastically answered every question the producer had with my thoughts from thirty years of teaching. Answer: See the last point above under ‘When should children learn keyboarding’. Answer: Teach what is developmentally appropriate, not more. dysgraphia How do I teach keyboarding?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

But of these states, only 30 legally require an intervention for students with this extremely common learning disability. Even more alarming is that these programs provide minimal instruction on how to teach students with diverse needs, such as those with dyslexia.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

For example, design a lesson for a fifth grade boy with a reading learning disability who is interested in sports. So I think for that kind of teaching, you can use the generative to help you develop lessons that can be a little bit more tailored to student interest, but I don’t think that. Now you get.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2018

The tools span everything from music to time-saving shortcuts and supports for struggling students or those with learning disabilities. It’s also a great way to teach AB patterns. It’s also a great way to teach AB patterns. Check out these educators’ top picks or explore a list of attendee favorites here.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

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. Should it be different than how I was teaching before?

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2017

What’s the difference between precision education and personalized learning? To be, er, precise, the goal is not to make a totally unique experience for every student, but to create a few distinct paths of teaching materials. Why don’t we start monitoring them sooner, rather than waiting for them to start to fail?” she asks. “We

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Teach Hub

MAY 9, 2024

It can also signal something more like a learning disability. Next, you can conduct informal or formal assessments to pinpoint any deficiencies in knowledge or skills or to check for any learning disabilities. Teach students how to manage their time and assignments, study for tests , and take good notes.

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