Nurturing Content Knowledge: Essential Tips for Special Educators
As a special educator, your role is invaluable in shaping the academic and personal growth of your students. While your expertise in working with diverse learning needs is paramount, having…
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Navigating the School Year: A Teacher’s Survival Guide
The school year can be a whirlwind of challenges and triumphs for educators. From managing classrooms to creating multiple lesson plans, teachers often find themselves juggling priorities. To help you…
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New Year, New Look! Designing Your Early Childhood Classroom
The learning environment should be safe, healthy and supportive to develop young children’s exploration and independence. The learning environment should encourage children’s initiative, active exploration of materials, and sustained meaningful…
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Effective Models of Collaborative Teaching
Decades of research has demonstrated the benefits of coteaching for teachers and students. Professional growth for teachers can include increased content knowledge, classroom management strategies, and curriculum adaptations (Scruggs et…
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Quality Indicators for Delivering Specially Designed Instruction
Overview The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA, 2004) has the following two indicators that need to be met for a student to qualify for special education services: The Quality…
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Making the Most of Your ESSER Funds
There are two years remaining in which ESSER funds, authorized in the American Rescue Plan Act, will be available. NOW is the time to assess your plan for expending these…
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Accommodations Audit Form
Accommodations are intended to provide equitable access to the general education curriculum and equitable access to the achievement of enrolled grade-level standards. Instructional accommodations remove barriers caused by the student’s…
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Paraeducators: Fact or Fiction?
As policy and procedures have evolved over the years within education, the role of teachers and paraprofessionals has also changed. Managing the work of paraprofessionals has become a more common…
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Fire Prevention vs. Firefighting in Education Today
Research continues to affirm that when schools, families, and the community work together to support learning, children tend to succeed not just in school but also throughout life. Today many…
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Behavior Strategies for Distance Learning
Classroom management during in-person instruction is challenging; with distance learning, the management of student online behavior and emotions is even tougher. Certainly, there are school rules and disciplinary procedures that…
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Differentiating Instruction Ideas for Electives Teachers
Recent work with secondary electives teachers on the topic of Differentiated Instruction revealed high interest in this area, as well as a desire for information specific to their discipline. After…
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Returning to School: Flattening the Curve of COVID-19 Trauma
As students reenter school after the trauma of the Coronavirus Pandemic, they bring with them anxiety, anger, irritability, and the fear of the unknown. They no longer trust previously known…
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