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Resource Format: Resource Compilation

  • Advancing Digital Equity for All

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    The “Advancing Digital Equity for All: Community-Based Recommendations for Developing Effective Digital Equity Plans to Close the Digital Divide and Enable Technology-Empowered Learning” resource illuminates insights from the Digital Equity Education Roundtables (DEER)  to highlight the barriers faced by learner communities and promising solutions for increasing access to technology for learning.

  • Students with Disabilities in Mathematics: Frequently Asked Questions

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    This document provides an overview of the characteristics of mathematics disability and presents evidence-based strategies to support students with mathematics disability and/or difficulty at all instructional levels. Importantly, the strategies outlined in this document are targeted at improving learning outcomes for the following student populations: • Students with a formal school identification of a specific…

  • Evidence-Based Specially Designed Instruction in Mathematics: Resource Guide

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    In an effort to enhance the performance of students with disabilities in the mathematics’ classrooms, this resource guide serves as a resource for educators, administrators, and parents to address the educational needs of students with mathematics disability and/or mathematics difficulty. This resource guide provides an overview of five evidence-based strategies that educators can utilize to…

  • INFACT: Computational Thinking Teaching and Learning Materials

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    INFACT is a collection of on- and off-line materials and activities that provides an opportunity to engage districts in researching the intersection of computational thinking skills and neurodiverse students in grades 3-8. The materials were designed with scaffolds to support executive function and to be accessible to all learners. EdGE at TERC is interested in…

  • Paraeducator Competencies & Resources

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    Paraeducators are critically important to schools, teachers, and students—and they face unique challenges in classrooms they work in every day. Here are some of the resources that CEC has developed for paraeducators and the teachers and Administrators who work with them.

  • Planning Your Future: A Guide To Transition

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    In 2022, with support from the Educating All Learners Alliance, the National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) hosted listening sessions with young adults, parents, educators, transition specialists, transition service providers, college disability services staff, and researchers in the field. A common theme expressed by all of these stakeholders was the lack of resource and knowledge sharing…

  • ESSER Guidance for School Staffing, Spending, and Scheduling

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    The three-year infusion of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds from the federal government provided a unique opportunity for districts to support school recovery and redesign. But with districts busy putting out fires, ESSER guidance for school staffing, spending, and scheduling was needed to implement meaningful strategies and programming. These detailed guides provide a blueprint for…

  • Individualized Education Plan (IEP) Processes Grounded in the Science of Learning and Development

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    Together with Digital Promise and the Educating All Learners Alliance, Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools released this guide that embraces a “whole-child” and strength-based approach to rethinking IEPs. It incorporates the latest research on learning and brain development to create and share resources, reflection tools, and guidance to support the work of teachers as they strive to update their approach to IEPs.

  • VL2 Foundational Skills Resources

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    The optimal time for all children to build a strong language foundation is between ages 0-4. During this time, children need regular and clear access to language. These 3 early visual language skills will boost academic achievement, social skills, and social-emotional development. Early access to sign language builds the foundation your child needs for lifelong…

  • How Schools Can Meet the Moment With Programs to Teach the Whole Child

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    The emergence of COVID-19 variants is impacting schools working through exactly how to spend the federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) stimulus funds. On the one hand, these American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds give school leaders a chance to incorporate research-based whole child teaching and learning that focuses on each student’s learner variability, unique…