EALA

Topic Area: Staffing

  • 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.

  • Principal Navigator: Special Educator Retention

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    This resource is an interactive tool that helps school and district teams strengthen student and teacher retention. It provides research-based strategies, practical tools, and examples from schools to improve school culture, support staff, and engage families.

  • The Power of Examples in Action: Catalyzing Change for All Learners

    The Power of Examples in Action: Catalyzing Change for All Learners

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    The EALA School Study Tours Learning Agenda Research Brief showcases how guided school visits, reflection protocols, and collaborative planning help educators adopt inclusive practices that benefit all learners. Featuring 12 Promising Practices—from leader commitment to community engagement—the brief offers evidence-based strategies and real-world examples for improving outcomes for students with disabilities and learning differences.

  • Timeline for UDL Implementation

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    A seasonal timeline for implementing UDL into your school or classroom.

  • North Carolina’s Goal: Access for All

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    In the case study, we dive into how North Carolina, with the help of the National Center on Accessible Educational Materials (AEM), created a system for accessible educational materials and technology within North Carolina school districts.

  • Opening Doors to Collaboration

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    In Opening Doors to Collaboration, we share a collection of best practices for improving learning outcomes, experiences, and environments in secondary students — particularly Black and Latinx students with disabilities experiencing poverty — by bolstering collaborative practices between general educators and special educators.

  • Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in K-12 Classrooms

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    Oregon released guidelines on how districts can introduce AI into the classroom.

  • Aurora Institute’s 2024 State Policy Priorities

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    The Aurora Institute has released state policy recommendations to enable our education system to transition from an industrial age “one-size-fits-all” model, to a future-focused model that supports education innovation, student agency, builds knowledge, and prioritizes mastery of skills and knowledge over seat time.

  • 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.

  • Planning Toolkit for Collaborative Goal-Setting Events

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    This guide was created to help leaders plan a local collaborative goal-setting convening and includes considerations for the planning process, invitees, program elements, and follow up that leaders may choose to use in their planning.