Audience: School Leader
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Comparison Between Asset and Deficit Based Approaches
The focus on the assets of communities—rather than its needs, deficits, or problems—represents an important shift in mindset and practice for people who work with communities on issues of importance .
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The State of Learning Disabilities: Strengthening Educator Confidence to Support
To better understand the conditions necessary to support and empower educators in meeting the needs of students with LD, the National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD), in partnership with WestEd, surveyed 1,654 general and special educators.
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All Learners Action Lab: A Practitioner’s Guide to Supporting Students with Disabilities
This resource is based on insights and experiences of participants of EALA’s All Learners Action Lab and is designed to help educators across the country build systems where students with learning differences can truly thrive.
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SELF Affirmed Access Toolkit
This free toolkit helps school leaders examine how scheduling decisions shape access to services and supports, especially for students with IEPs, multilingual learners, and students whose needs aren’t always reflected in traditional school structures. It provides practical guidance for building schedules where inclusive support is integrated from the beginning.
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The Missing Piece in Math Reform: Identifying and Supporting Students with Dyscalculia
This brief explores why these students are falling through the cracks—and what states and districts can do about it now. They tackle what dyscalculia is, why students with dyscalculia often go unidentified, what early identification should look like, and what intervention should look like.
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Speech Accessibility Project
The project collects speech samples from paid volunteers representing a diversity of speech patterns. Illinois researchers are using the recordings to create a private, de-identified dataset for training machine learning models to better understand a variety of speech patterns.
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SAUSD’s Artificial Intelligence Compass
Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) is committed to providing each student with a high-quality education, offering rigorous and advanced programs in a nurturing and safe environment equipped with state-of-the-art facilities. Their efforts are guided by the District’s Graduate Profile and our Board of Education’s priorities.
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Preparing Our Kids for the Future — and Keeping Them Safe.
This guide shows every family what strong school AI policy looks like, what to ask, and how to advocate for safer, smarter use in your district and state.
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More Students with Disabilities Were Educated in General Education Settings, but State Trends Varied Widely
Seven million children received special education services in school year 2023-24. Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, these students should be learning alongside their peers in general education classrooms as much as is appropriate.
