EALA

Theme: Assessment and Feedback

  • How has the pandemic affected students with disabilities? An update on the evidence: Fall 2022

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    This report is the second installment of an updated set of papers that assess the best available evidence on how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected America’s students.

  • Student-led Conferences

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    Student-led conferences are meetings between students, parents, and teachers where the student actively leads the conversation by reflecting on their progress toward goals and sharing examples of their work. Allowing students to pick examples of their work that illustrate their progress helps their Motivation and Metacognition about their own learning. Having students reflect on their…

  • Appropriate Assessment Strategies

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    Children and youth with deaf-blindness are a highly diverse population. They have different types andseverities of visual impairments and hearing losses and different levels of communication, ranging frompre-symbolic to language fluency. Many have additional disabilities, including intellectual disabilities, and somehave complex medical conditions.

  • Potential Indicators of Dyslexia

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    This checklist is designed to aid educators in identifying students with characteristics orpotential indicators of dyslexia and to document any skill deficits confirmed duringscreening to inform instruction

  • Struggling readers: Questions needing answers

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    Given COVID-19’s domination of the 2020-2021 academic year and the severe damage it did to the education of countless struggling readers, parents and teachers need to ask critical questions; questions that will help to accelerate the reading and writing achievements of struggling readers. For special education students, it’s best to address these questions to the…

  • Using Videos to Give Students Personalized Feedback

    Using Videos to Give Students Personalized Feedback

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    Video messages make commenting on student work easy and interactive—and can enhance teacher-student relationships.

  • Academies for Learning Advancement: Research and Practitioner Perspectives

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    Short-term “vacation” academies are a learning recovery option that have shown positive literacy and mathematics results in several sites. This collection of short videos, actionable checklistis, and other materials explains the features of successful academies, reports on research about the impact of academies on student achievement, and describes ways to adapt the academies to address…

  • How to Universally Design and Administer a District Survey

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    It is important that all groups have voice and choice regarding the happenings in the district and in the school but without a universally designed approach, the results may not represent all of the stakeholders. In order to get accurate data, the barriers that keep people from participating in surveys need to be considered and…

  • High-Quality Instruction & Materials: Ensuring Equity & Inclusion for ALL Students

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    Blue Engine and SPED Strategies, two organizations on a mission to improve outcomes for students who think and learn differently, have come together to elevate strategies and practices that school systems can use to design for and meet the needs of students with disabilities as part of continued school reopening. Over many years working with…

  • Leading for Literacy: Building an Effective Schoolwide Multi-Tiered System of Support

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    What are the elements of an effective schoolwide reading model? How do leaders evaluate the health of their multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) reading model? How can leaders guide a continuous effort of sustained reading improvement practices through the use of evidence-based literacy practices? These questions and more will be covered in this interactive web…