Serving English Learners and Dual-identified Students During Remote Learning
This webinar will describe the national context about the challenges for English learners and students with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Helping Children Manage Stress, Surmount Trauma and Thrive: A Whole-Child Approach
In this discussion, Turnaround for Children Founder and Senior Science Advisor, Pamela Cantor, M.D,. and Gretchen Livesey, Vice President of Partner Impact, will explain the neurobiology of stress and trauma and how educators can design the environments, experiences and relationships that build the vital skills or “muscles” for all students to surmount the current crisis […]
Working with your School Psychologist to Serve Students with Disabilities
Join us for a webinar, with Dr. Brittany Greiert, who discussed how to utilize your school psychologist during remote learning to support students with disabilities. This webinar discussed the role of a school psychologist, remote learning resources offered through the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP), and strategies that can be implemented to support the […]
Choosing Educational Technology to Support Learner Variability
Digital Promise works at the intersection of educators, researchers, and edtech developers. In this webinar, Vic Vuchic, chief innovation officer, will discuss how Digital Promise is helping teachers and parents understand their learners and what is important to look for in edtech products to support them and their individual needs. He also will share a […]
Exploring the High Leverage Practices in Special Education
Join us for a webinar with Debra Herburger, Senior Program Associate with the WestEd Special Education Policy & Practice Team. This webinar will provide a brief background and purpose of the HLPs for Special Education, how the HLPs are categorized, the alignment between the HLPs and evidence-based practices for general education. We will also explore […]
Sam Drazin on Social Emotional Learning
As a result of the current health crisis, many schools have closed and moved to distance learning. Now more than ever, students need opportunities to develop critical social-emotional skills for well-being. Social-emotional learning (SEL) is a critical part of every child’s education and can be nurtured even when students are not in school. SEL is […]
NCLD on Federal Guidance
This session focused on the legal obligations of schools in light of school closures due to COVID-19 and their impact on educators of students with disabilities. Since COVID-19 has turned the lives of the majority of the nation’s students and educators upside down, state and federal entities are left with the task of finding solutions […]
Paul O’Neill on Student Privacy
This session focused on ways that challenges to student privacy are playing out during the COVID-19 crisis. It is not proving to easy to maintain traditional confidentiality protections under FERPA and HIPAA in the sudden shift to online education and in some of the other hastily-assembled practices that many schools and district have switched to […]
Wendy Tucker on Student Agency
This webinar focused on what educators can do to partner with families to ensure FAPE in distance learning situations. We looked at the recent federal guidance for providing special education during this pandemic, along with specific instances of work being done in schools around the country.
Deaf Learners: Designing Practice to Support Their Learner Variability Using a Whole Child Framework
This webinar discusses the extreme amount of variability among deaf learners- not only in their communication preferences, but also in their language development and learning needs.