Month: February 2025
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Navigating Special Education with Open Communication
This article was written and published by Laura Ascione — February 20th, 2025 Navigating Special Education with Open Communication Special education services improve when parents and educators can trust one another Expert IEP founder Antoinette Banks outlines how special education has been chronically underfunded for decades—and how the potential dismantling of the Department of…
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Inside One Teacher’s Effort to Help Students Take Charge of Their Own Learning
This article was written and Published by Jennifer Vilcarino — February 21st, 2025 While teaching high school math in Washington, D.C., Robert Barnett faced a common classroom dilemma: how to best instruct students who learn at different paces. Barnett, alongside another math teacher in his school, Kareem Farah, started self-producing video lessons that could…
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Insights: AI and Accessibility
This article was written and published by Fable Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to change how we work, socialize, shop, and access critical services like healthcare. Growth in AI is happening exponentially, and it’s faster than most of us can keep up with. It’s exciting and scary at the same time, but especially…
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Integrating special education students is necessary for equitable education
This article was written and Published by Niveda Hari and Suhana Mahabal — February 2nd, 2025 FUHSD should continue to take steps to provide opportunities for all students to learn together At schools nationwide, special education students, or students who require specialized instruction and support due to diverse abilities, are too often isolated from their peers and…
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From Ideas to Action: How the EALA Community of Action is Driving Real Change
This article was written and published by Aurora Dreger — February 10th, 2024 Back in December, the Educating All Learners Alliance hosted our latest Community of Action convening—an in-person event that brought together 40 participants from 22 organizations for two days at the ASU campus in Scottsdale, AZ. When I joined EALA in 2022, launching…
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3 Things Every Teacher Should Know About Learning Differences
This article was written and Published by Arianna Prothero — December 4th, 2024 Teachers often graduate from their preparation programs without a firm grounding in common learning differences like dyslexia, which affects the ability to read. This is the case even though teachers will, over the course of their careers, educate many students with learning…
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ED: How to Prioritize Accessibility in K-12 Technology
This article was written and Published by Government Technology — January 24th, 2025 The U.S. Department of Education issued guidance this week on steps school systems can take to make accessibility a core component of K-12 learning technology, including who to involve and what resources to consult. More collaboration among IT, special education and curriculum…
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Art Saved My Life When I Was a Student. Now, It’s Helping My Multilingual Learners.
This article was written and Published by Edgar Miguel Grajeda — January 22nd, 2025 Earlier this month at Truesdell Elementary, in the last five minutes of one of my classes, I called for my students’ attention. “Class, class!” I called. “Yes, yes,” they responded in unison. “I have a recognition to make.” I held up one…
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Report: Only 27% of States Prepared to Sustain K-12 Digital Access as Federal Programs End
This article was written and Published by SETDA — January 14th, 2025 SETDA’s Universal Connectivity Imperative report outlines strategies to prevent millions of students from losing internet access and further falling behind. WASHINGTON, Jan. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — SETDA, the principal association representing state and territorial educational technology and digital learning leaders, today released a new report, Universal…