How to Provide Distance Learning
Family Engagement: Collaborating with Families of Students with Disabilities
Distance Learning > How to Provide Distance Learning, Distance Learning > Support for Families
Created by the IRIS Center, this module—a revision of Collaborating with Families, which was originally developed in cooperation with the PACER Center—addresses the importance of engaging the...
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Training Module
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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