EALA

Theme: Student Engagement and Agency

  • UDL Observation Checklist

    UDL Observation Checklist

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    The UDL (Universal Design for Learning) Observation Checklist by SELF is a practical tool for evaluating classroom implementation of UDL principles. It helps educators assess whether learning goals, assessments, materials, and teaching methods are inclusive and provide multiple means of engagement, representation, and expression. The checklist ensures that students have diverse options to demonstrate mastery,…

  • Disability Justice in the Classroom

    Disability Justice in the Classroom

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    The Disability Justice Classroom Audit by SELF helps educators assess and improve classroom inclusivity. It covers key areas like sensory environment, representation, accessibility, language, and student autonomy, providing actionable steps for creating a supportive, equitable learning space for all students, particularly those with disabilities.  

  • Amplifying Excellence in Career Education and Development

    Amplifying Excellence in Career Education and Development

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    This resource from Getting Smart explores the growing importance of career education and workforce development in shaping future success. It highlights key strategies for amplifying excellence in career education through innovative partnerships, equitable access, and industry-aligned pathways. Dive into best practices and success stories that are redefining career readiness for students of all backgrounds.  

  • Educator Preparation Program Report

    Educator Preparation Program Report

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    This report builds on national and state research by highlighting opportunities to increase the number of prepared special education and ESL teachers in Tennessee’s educator workforce.

  • High-Dose Tutoring and Other Academic Recovery Strategies

    High-Dose Tutoring and Other Academic Recovery Strategies

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    When leaders design systems with learner variability at the center, all students benefit. This CoP aimed to ensure leaders can name the criteria for inclusive school-wide systems, specifically as it relates to learner variability, and evaluate their existing vision and systems through this lens. Leaders walked away with a framework for inclusive schools and an…

  • Research-to-Impact Practices

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    Download more than 20 best practices to improve learning experiences, environments, and outcomes for Black and Latinx students with disabilities experiencing poverty.

  • Igniting Post-Secondary Aspirations

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    Proven school-based practices to empower students to transition into meaningful college, career, and community postsecondary pathways

  • Anchoring Emotions

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    One school’s skill-based practices for supporting students with emotional-based disabilities.

  • Learner-Centered Classrooms: Creating Experiences for Learners to Thrive

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    Gain insights into the Learner-Centered Collaborative’s framework and discover concrete strategies that center learners and prepare them for a rapidly evolving world. Join an insightful panel of education professionals with extensive experience leading learner-centered classrooms.

  • Including Neurodiversity in Computational Thinking

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    This paper reports on a study of teaching and learning materials designed for the inclusion of neurodivergent learners in computational thinking (CT) in grades 3–8. We define an inclusive classroom as one that has at least 20% of students with individual education plans (IEPs) or equivalent alternative programming for cognitive differences. The study examines how…