EALA

Resource Format: Web-based Content

  • Peer-to-Peer Supports for Students with ASD: Communicating with College Professors

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    Peer-to-Peer resources are designed to support adults with autism and are created by young adults for young adults. This Peer-to-Peer brochure is a guide for supporting communication with college professors.

  • Feelings Wheel Download and Facilitation Guide

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    This resource provides a downloadable feelings wheel and facilitation guide for resource rationale and implementation. The feelings wheel has both pictures and words to help kids name their emotions. Kids who don’t yet have the words for their emotions can use the pictures.

  • Creating Authentic Partnerships with Historically Marginalized Families and Other Stakeholders: Embracing an Equity Mindset

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    Educational systems in this country have been shaped by the influence of White dominant culture, frequently precluding the authentic partnership of families and stakeholders who are vested in the success of historically marginalized students in their communities. This resource describes characteristics associated with White dominant culture as compared to those rooted in an intentional equity…

  • Educator Pronoun Guide

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    This guide is created to help anyone learn how to use people’s correct pronouns. Everyone in your school community should engage in learning, educating, and advocating for the inclusive use of pronouns for all. 

  • Responding to Recovery Needs by Creating a More Equitable Whole School Schedule

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    It takes all members of the school team including – classroom and specials teachers, building leaders, paraprofessionals and aides, counselors and clinicians, special education teachers, families, and last, but certainly not least students – to improve a school or district’s special education program. This resource provides a written guide, recorded webinar, and downloadable School Scheduling…

  • Student-led Conferences

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    Student-led conferences are meetings between students, parents, and teachers where the student actively leads the conversation by reflecting on their progress toward goals and sharing examples of their work. Allowing students to pick examples of their work that illustrate their progress helps their Motivation and Metacognition about their own learning. Having students reflect on their…

  • SEL Goals for IEPs: What Are They and How to Write Them

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    Students who receive special education services often need additional supports that allow them to be taught in a special way. An Individualized Education Program (IEP) sets reasonable learning goals for the student and describes the services the school district will provide for the child. Educators can strengthen supports and focus on a student’s most pressing…

  • Modeling & Thinking Aloud

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    Modeling is an instructional strategy where a teacher demonstrates a new concept or approach to learning and students learn through observation. This one-pager offers strategies for teachers to use modeling, scaffolding, and thinking aloud to narrate their decisions and choices to help students internalize and build their schemata.

  • How to Get the Whole Class Engaged in Rich Conversations

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    Giving high school students agency in open-ended dialogue encourages meaningful conversations involving every student. This resource outlines how teacher, Anne Beaton, weaves together two facilitation models, designing a full-class inquiry that gives students agency when discussing a current issue and facilitates a meaningful dialogue.

  • Raising the Whole Child: Social-Emotional Development in Deaf Children

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    This resource from Gallaudet University offers a research review on social-emotional development in children from birth to 12th grade, focusing on children who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing (DHH). The document includes recommendations for parents and educators.