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Resource Format: Web-based Content

  • Engaging Parents in Productive Partnerships

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    IEP teams are intentionally composed of parents, educators, and service providers who bring different expertise to the development of effective educational programs. This resource from the Center for Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Special Education (CADRE) includes suggestions on how educators and service providers can effectively collaborate with parents including specific recommendations for IEP meetings.

  • Navigating Social and Emotional Learning from the Inside Out

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    ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Looking Inside and Across 33 leading SEL Programs: A Practical Resource for Schools and OST Providers; Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition (Preschool and Elementary Focus)​​​

  • What’s the Difference Between an IEP and a 504 Plan?

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    Explanation of the difference between qualifications for an IEP or a 504 plan.

  • UDL Flowchart

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    Infographic that can be used while planning universally-designed lessons.

  • UDL Implementation Timeline

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    If you are in a leadership position (principal, instructional coach, teacher leader, etc.) you may be wondering what your first year of UDL implementation may look like. Shannon Schultz, and instructional coach in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, came up with this brilliant exemplar to help you get started.

  • Long COVID under Section 504 and the IDEA: A Resource to Support Children, Students, Educators, Schools, Service Providers, and Families

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    This resource is issued jointly by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and theOffice of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) to provide information about long COVIDas a disability and about schools’ and public agencies’ responsibilities for the provision of services andreasonable modifications to children and students for whom long COVID…

  • Struggling readers: Questions needing answers

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    Given COVID-19’s domination of the 2020-2021 academic year and the severe damage it did to the education of countless struggling readers, parents and teachers need to ask critical questions; questions that will help to accelerate the reading and writing achievements of struggling readers. For special education students, it’s best to address these questions to the…

  • Rolling Text Sets Make Content Accessible for All Students

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    Teachers can encourage critical thinking by giving students reading assignments that build their knowledge gradually.

  • How to Find College Disability Documentation Requirements

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    When students with disabilities request accommodations at college by registering with the disability services office (this occurs after they are admitted and enroll at the college they’ll attend), they may be asked to submit documentation of their disability. (Read about the registration process here or watch a video about it here.) Families may hear lots…

  • Universal Design for Learning (UDL): A teacher’s guide

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    Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework developed by CAST, an Understood founding partner. UDL guides the design of learning experiences to proactively meet the needs of all learners. When you use UDL, you assume that barriers to learning are in the design of the environment, not in the student. UDL is based on…