EALA

Topic Area: School Culture

  • EALA Multilingual Learners Resource Catalog

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    At EALA, we know multilingualism is a strength; the ability to navigate multiple languages reflects deep cognitive and cultural knowledge that benefits all students, classrooms, and communities. This collection of resources is designed to highlight and build on those strengths.

  • Centering Youth Voice in Education Webinar

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    The Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) takes an inside look at the Youth Action Project, a collaborative initiative dedicated to closing the gap in meaningful participation for disabled and neurodivergent youth. This webinar features leaders from three pilot sites: Social Optics, Transition Academy, and LiberatED.

  • Youth Action Project Resources

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    Youth-led pilot projects demonstrate the power of community-connected learning to help students navigate their futures with confidence and purpose. Centering student voice and storytelling, these initiatives show how education can evolve when youth are trusted as change-makers and supported with care.

  • Helping Learners Thrive: Lessons From Youth Leaders

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    Through our Youth Action Project, we conducted interviews with five neurodivergent high school students to better understand their educational experiences and needs. We invite you to explore the lessons learned from these student voices and consider how you might create more opportunities for students to share their insights.

  • Principal Support Framework

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    The Principal Support Framework is a tool to support central office leaders working to center the student experience and to address education inequity. This framework provides system leaders with a student-centered vision for growing equity leadership practices in partnership with school leaders.

  • Professional Learning in an AI World: A Playbook for State and Local Leaders

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    The rapid adoption of AI-powered tools in K-12 classrooms, paired with the national discourse around developing AI literacy skills, have spotlighted the need to address the digital design divide–defined in the 2024 National Educational Technology Plan.

  • Inclusive Social Media: 9 Ways to Celebrate All Students on Your School’s Social Media Channels

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    This article encourages school communicators to intentionally and respectfully share stories about all students, including those with disabilities, alternative educational paths, and minority cultures, to build community trust and showcase an authentic culture of belonging and inclusion.

  • A Guide to Talent Management for Leaders Serving Students with Disabilities

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    This one-page guide, informed by the reflections of the 2024 EALA New Champions and their mentor, provides crucial insights on navigating the common talent management challenge of balancing execution with team capacity.

  • Demonstration Classrooms

    Demonstration Classrooms

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    The Special Education Cooperative’s Demonstration Classrooms Report highlights a professional learning model that uses classroom demonstrations to share instructional practices. The report details how these classrooms were structured, what strategies were used, and how schools and educators applied lessons learned.

  • A for Effort, Needs Improvement on Execution: Lessons Learned from Failures of AI EdTech Tools

    A for Effort, Needs Improvement on Execution: Lessons Learned from Failures of AI EdTech Tools

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    This report from the Center for Democracy & Technology reviews challenges with AI-based education tools. It outlines how issues with design, implementation, and oversight have limited their effectiveness and offers considerations for future use.