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A State Guide to Establishing a Statewide System of Accountability and Support to Improve Results and Functional Outcomes for Students with Disabilities
Evaluation > Infrastructure Changes, General Supervision, Infrastructure Development > Local Education Agency Capacity, Infrastructure Development > State Education Agency Capacity
Ensuring that local education agencies (LEAs) meet IDEA requirements and improve student outcomes requires a strong, results-driven state accountability system aligned with a robust statewide...
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Guidance
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: Addition Fact Strategies
Distance Learning > How to Provide Distance Learning, Distance Learning > Instructional Resources
These resources were created by Patricia Maxwell from Coventry Public Schools in Rhode Island to help with virtual mathematics instruction and intervention. The long-term goal is for students to...
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Tools
How can I help my elementary child stay focused during online learning?
Distance Learning > Support for Families
This Parent Tip Sheet created by the IRIS Center offers ideas for helping elementary aged children to stay focused during online learning. January 2021
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Guidance
Virtual Lesson Example: Writing Lesson
Distance Learning > How to Provide Distance Learning, Distance Learning > Support for Families
This lesson provides a structure for a writing intervention with examples of asynchronous and synchronous virtual delivery. The lesson is informed by the Simple View of Writing (Berninger &...
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Tools
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
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
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
Individualized Education Program (IEP) Goal Data Collection Tool: Choice Making
Data, Distance Learning > How to Provide Distance Learning, Distance Learning > Virtual PD, FAPE/Individualized Educational Programs > Tools for Decision Making, FAPE/Individualized Educational Programs > Virtual Evaluation and Assessments
This tool was developed by Krystal Uricchio a special education teacher at Narragansett High School in Rhode Island. Choice making is a common goal for students with significant disabilities....
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Tools
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
Reading for All Webinar Series
Distance Learning > How to Provide Distance Learning, Distance Learning > Instructional Resources, Distance Learning > Support for Families, Distance Learning > Virtual PD
In this 3-part webinar series, you will learn the "what, why and how" of EPUB, a format for creating accessible, customizable content that adapts to the variable needs and preferences of diverse...
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Guidance
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