Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

You can read part one here. The COVID-19 outbreak disrupted daily life for virtually every educator, parent, and student in the U.S. It has disabled our education system, creating challenges to educational access, barriers to student academic progress and strains on teachers’ and students’ physical and emotional well-being.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

My first year in education, my student teaching year, was incredibly difficult. Amid my anxiety, I could not read the room during classwide discussions. As it turns out, the checklist format is a recurring accommodation given to many students with IEPs and is often discussed outside the context of special education as chunking.

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Teachers Failure Attention Disabilities 182

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.

Technology 103

Technology Universal Design Learning Writing 103

Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Beginning Add literature/resources from neurodivergent, disabled, and diverse authors to assigned course readings and class activities. Replace and/or supplement outdated readings. Provide electronic files of reading, resources, presentations, and other materials. Handbook of research on multicultural education.

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Accessibility Disabilities Learning Disabilities Special Education 70

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

What are you reading?” Who says the passage we read about in a grammar lesson can’t be from Martin Luther King, Jr.? But the problem was, I never knew if any of it mattered to them, until I saw Elif reading The Diary of Anne Frank. The power of education and exposure. Seeing her read that book changed me.

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Education Special Education Middle School Middle School 122

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

It involves designing courses that accommodate diverse learning needs and preferences. Key components of accessible course design include: Universal Design for Learning (UDL): UDL principles guide the creation of courses that provide multiple means of representation, engagement, and expression.

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Accessibility Disabilities Education Culture 105

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

In my work with kids, if I’m going to get a 12-year-old to talk about something they feel vulnerable about — not reading fluently, failing the test, not understanding the homework — then I need to be both vulnerable and honest with them. It takes some students longer to learn to read the symbol system of Algebra. H., & Damasio, A.

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Math Testing Learning Failure 112

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

It involves designing courses that accommodate diverse learning needs and preferences. Key components of accessible course design include: Universal Design for Learning (UDL): UDL principles guide the creation of courses that provide multiple means of representation, engagement, and expression.

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Accessibility Disabilities Education Culture 98

Elevate k12

JUNE 24, 2024

Reading and math scores are at their lowest in decades, while mental illnesses, absenteeism, and bullying are on the rise. Our education system has not kept up with the modern world. It’s an especially severe problem for specialist roles, as seen in the special education teacher shortage. Where did it all go wrong?

Education 52

Education Learning Styles Special Education Feedback 52

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

It is important that situational factors be identified as a key component to make planning decisions since retrofitting ones instructional design, delivery or assessment only after one finds out who is being instructed, are not effective use of faculty time, effort or university resources (Schreiner, Rothernberger and Scoltz, 2013).

Course Design 60

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 60

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

It is important that situational factors be identified as a key component to make planning decisions since retrofitting ones instructional design, delivery or assessment only after one finds out who is being instructed, are not effective use of faculty time, effort or university resources (Schreiner, Rothernberger and Scoltz, 2013).

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Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 59

eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2025

Yes No Δ For World Autism Awareness Day on April 2, ProCare Therapy , a staffing agency for school-based therapy roles and teachers, is sharing best practices for educators on supporting students of varying abilities in the classroom while support staff is limited. Five ways to support students of all abilities in the classroom 1.

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Disabilities Learning Disabilities Students Assistive Technology 228