Resource Format: Web-based Content

  • Visual Impairments

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    Strategies and information for teacher of science concerning students with visual impairments.

  • Seeing Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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    Seeing AI is a Microsoft research project that brings together the power of the cloud and AI to deliver an intelligent app, designed to help you navigate your day.

  • Be My Eyes

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    Be My Eyes is a free app that connects blind and low-vision people with sighted volunteers and company representatives for visual assistance through a live video call.

  • Assistive Technology

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    Assistive technology is a set of tools and devices that enhance communication and allow students who are Blind or Visually Impaired (BVI) to independently access the curriculum.

  • Overview of Visual Impairments

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    Information regarding students with visual impairments.

  • Teaching Secondary Students to Write Effectively

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    This practice guide presents three evidence-based recommendations for helping students in grades 6–12 develop effective writing skills. Each recommendation includes specific, actionable guidance for educators on implementing practices in their classrooms. The guide also summarizes and rates the evidence supporting each recommendation, describes examples to use in class, and offers the panel’s advice on how…

  • Supporting Your Middle or High Schooler’s Writing Skills at Home

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    Strong writing skills are crucial for students to communicate, succeed in school, and prepare for a career. Just like their younger peers, middle and high schoolers need opportunities to practice and improve writing skills. This resource, co-developed by REL Northwest and REL Southwest, describes several approaches that families and caregivers can use to support their…

  • 10 Key Policies and Practices for Reading Intervention

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    Reading difficulties affect students’ academic success through the K–12 years and beyond, making a preventive approach essential. Reading intervention in the early grades is the strongest preventive actionschools can take. For many students who experience early difficulties with reading, intervention puts them on track to succeed later. However, it is important to maintain intervention options…

  • Checklist for Remote Learning Strategies and Adaptations

    Checklist for Remote Learning Strategies and Adaptations

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    This checklist targets the main components needed to ensure distance learning accessibility for students with visual impairments. The tool has helped Miami Lighthouse Academy, LLC teachers make accommodations to their live sessions to meet the individual student needs.

  • 5 Practical Ways Teachers Can Respond to, “I Don’t Get It.”

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    Practical responses to get your students thinking.