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Virtual Lesson Example: Problem Solving for Students with Disabilities
Distance Learning > How to Provide Distance Learning, Distance Learning > Instructional Resources
This activity was developed by Tammy Moran a special education teacher in Ferris Independent School District. In this lesson, she illustrates the use of the Understand-Plan-Solve-Evaluate (UPSE)...
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Tools
Returning to School: Considerations for Students with the Most Intensive Behavioral Needs. A Guide to Supporting Students With Disabilities, Their Families, and Educators During the 2020–21 School Year
Distance Learning > How to Provide Distance Learning, Distance Learning > Support for Families
This guide and accompanying video include a set of strategies and key practices with the ultimate goal of supporting students with the most intensive behavioral needs, their families, and educators...
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Brief
Virtual Assessment Example: Administering Decoding and Spelling Assessments
Data, Distance Learning > How to Provide Distance Learning, FAPE/Individualized Educational Programs > Tools for Decision Making
This activity was developed by Krysta Muspratt a Reading/Language Arts Specialist at Downtown Denver Expeditionary School. In this example, she illustrates the virtual implementation of EL...
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Tools
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Exceptional Children Teachers: Supporting Students, Families and Each Other During COVID-19 Restrictions
Distance Learning > Instructional Resources, Distance Learning > Support for Families
"Staff from the Exceptional Children department in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools convened a group of their teachers in Spring 2020 to share their perspectives and ideas. This advisory group...
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Report
Success Starts with Collaboration
COVID-19 Policy Guidance, Stakeholder Engagement
Whether it’s general and special education, families and teachers, or assistive technology and educational technology specialists, Collaboration as part of the CITES Four C's proved to be the key...
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Guidance
Virtual Lesson Example: Supporting Students’ Foundational Reading Skills
Distance Learning > How to Provide Distance Learning, Distance Learning > Instructional Resources
This lesson, featuring Karen McWilliams, a 504 Coordinator and Dyslexia Teacher in Rochelle ISD in Texas, supports educators in using technology to teach foundational reading skills to students in...
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Tools
Virtual Lesson Example: Show Me the Number Using Base Ten Blocks
Distance Learning > How to Provide Distance Learning, Distance Learning > Instructional Resources
This lesson features Carla Jo Whatley, a First Grade Teacher at Ferris Intermediate in Ferris ISD in Texas. In the lesson she illustrates how to use virtual manipulatives within a math lesson....
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Tools
Virtual Lesson Example: Tips on Implementing Area of Polygons
Distance Learning > Instructional Resources
This lesson includes a tip sheet, slides with activities, and supplemental materials that are associated with finding the area of various polygons, the area of circles, and the relationship between...
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Tools
Maintaining Screening and Progress Monitoring Practices in Virtual/Remote Settings
Data
This resource developed by Sarah Thorud, Elementary Reading Specialist from Clatskanie School District in Oregon focuses on implementing screening and progress monitoring virtually. It includes...
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Guidance
Don’t Socially Distance, Physically Distance! How to Support Social-Behavioral Needs in Virtual, In-Person, and Hybrid Learning
Distance Learning > How to Provide Distance Learning, Distance Learning > Instructional Resources
Are you confused about how to support the social-behavioral needs of your learners as you return to school this fall? How can you ensure that all students, including those with intensive needs,...
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Webinar
Using Remote Learning to Turn Emergency into Opportunity
Distance Learning > How to Provide Distance Learning, Stakeholder Engagement
The COVID-19 emergency school building closures have highlighted the importance of technology planning and contingency planning. For districts around the country, the “impossible” had to quickly...
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Webinar
IEP Considerations for the 2020-2021 School Year
Distance Learning > How to Provide Distance Learning, Distance Learning > Virtual PD, FAPE/Individualized Educational Programs > Tools for Decision Making, FAPE/Individualized Educational Programs > Virtual IEP Meetings
Presenter guide for use by individual staff or administrators regarding IEP team decisions. December 2020
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Training Module