Resource Format: Web-based Content

  • 8 Ways to Elevate Your Specially Designed Instruction Skills for Hybrid Settings

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    Here at The Ability Challenge, we were concerned with the lack of information about how to implement specially designed instruction in hybrid settings (especially for hybrid classrooms teaching students in person and at home concurrently). So, we created our own resource. We know the format and parameters for what hybrid looks like in your settings…

  • A Closer Look: Meeting the Needs of Students with Disabilities

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    Presentation focusing on the needs of students with disabiltiies during COVID recovery

  • The Active Learner

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    HighScope’s journal for early educators’ article “Seeing Without Sight: Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Adopts the Highscope Curriculum”.

  • The Acceleration Imperative

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    In school districts and charter school networks nationwide, instructional leaders are developing plans to address the enormous challenge of safely returning back to classrooms full time. This model recovery plan can be used as a starting point or an aid for your own planning purposes. Take a look at chapter three to find information on…

  • Addressing the Impact of COVID-19 through Summer Learning and Enrichment

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    This archived online discussion, intended to elevate evidence-based components of high-quality summer learning and enrichment programs, describes how American Rescue Plan funds can be used to support program design and implementation, and how these opportunities can be available this summer and beyond by building district capacity, which includes philanthropy and community-based partnerships.

  • Turning Around a Co-teaching Relationship

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    This article not only summarizes the highlights of my podcast conversation with Shawna Carnahan, one of my co-teachers, but it also is a reflection of how we turned our collaboration around.

  • Summer Learning Program Guidance 2021

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    The Department’s new summer learning program guidance helps systems develop offerings that mirror summer camp. Along with core content tutoring in small groups, the sample structure provided by the LDOE includes field trips, the arts, library visits, recess and well-being supports. 

  • Classroom video calls. You can do this. Here’s how.

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    The past two years have dramatically increased videos conferences, both in and outside the classroom. As schools transition to back to hybrid and classroom spaces, here are resources to help keep up interactive, digital technology practices.

  • What Are the Different Types of Dyslexia?

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    Reading specialists and psychologists can help identify the specific dyslexia challenges an individual has. No institution has created an official, diagnostic list of dyslexia subtypes, and some experts believe there aren’t “types” of dyslexia so much as a continuum or spectrum of various cognitive issues. While research is ongoing, other experts contend that the four…

  • Takeaway 1: Relationships and learning are inseparably connected

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    In spring 2020, Instruction Partners launched the Rethinking Intervention project—a series of conversations with education leaders, researchers, and practitioners—in order to think deeply about what drives and challenges intervention and how we can accelerate student learning after many months away from school. Across these conversations, the most prominent theme about learning pointed to the central…