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How can educators engage these families?
To successfully achieve family engagement, educators must get to know, build positive relationships with, and meaningfully involve families. Establishing positive relationships creates an atmosphere conducive to family involvement. This is vital in improving outcomes for students, families, and the school, as well as in the greater community. Let’s look at a number of actions educators…
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Supporting Students with Disabilities in K-12 Online and Blended Learning
The intent of this document is to supply educational teams content that will provide support for the planning, implementation, and evaluation of programs and services for students with disabilities enrolled in online and blended learning environments. This document is organized by the following eligibility categories for the provision of special education programs and services: autism,…
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Neurodiversity: What you need to know
For kids with learning and thinking differences, the idea of neurodiversity has real benefits. It can help kids (and their parents) frame their challenges as differences, rather than as deficits. It can also shed light on instructional approaches that might help to highlight particular strengths kids have . One such approach is Universal Design for…
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Equity and Accessibility Considerations for Digital Learning:
This resource is designed to help ensure digital learning is equitable for all students by offering guidance on cultivating a culturally responsive learning environment with consideration for the neurodiversity of students and access to internet and devices. Specifically, it offers guidance on implementing accessible practices for digital learning in consideration of students with individualized education…
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Coaching for Ongoing Professional Learning within Tiered Support Models
The purpose of this document is to provide content-specific examples of how to structure educator-level and/or systems-level coaching as a mechanism to ensure ongoing professional learning to support tiered intervention. This document provides examples of coaching supports, models, and functions within the context of tiered intervention (e.g., RtI, PBIS, MTSS) and data-based decision making (e.g.,…
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Using Videos to Give Students Personalized Feedback
Video messages make commenting on student work easy and interactive—and can enhance teacher-student relationships.
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Supporting Educators through Employee Wellness Initiatives
Nearly half of all U.S. teachers report experiencing high levels of stress daily during the school year. Chronic stress is associated with higher teacher absenteeism and turnover, which are most prevalent in schools that serve low-income students. Symptoms such as depression, anxiety, heart disease, and exhaustion impair teachers’ performance
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Self-study Guide for Implementing Early Literacy Interventions
This Self-study Guide for Implementing Early Literacy Interventions was developedto help district- and school-based practitioners conduct self-studies for planning andimplementing early literacy interventions. It is intended to promote reflection about currentstrengths and challenges in planning for implementation of early literacy interventions,spark conversations among staff, and identify areas for improvement. This guide providesa template for data…
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Self-Study Guide for Implementing Literacy Interventions in Grades 3-8
This guide is intended to help district- and school-based practitioners conduct selfstudies for planning and implementing literacy interventions in grades 3-8.
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Self-Study Guide for Implementing High School Academic Interventions
This guide is intended to help district‐ and school‐based practitioners conduct self‐studies for planning and implementing high school academic interventions.