Educators deserve better education
There is so much variability among our students, each will experience “tiger moments” in different ways and at different times. You may ask, “how can we possibly design instruction to address this emotional variability?” Here are tips on how to address variability…
Tips on how to talk with your child’s teacher. How to build collaboration, offer feedback, and embrace the critical partnerships.
5 coping skills to help students cope with stressors that can get in the way of learning.
One of the best tools in the online teacher’s toolbox to support executive function (EF) skills is to use good learning Module design in a learning management system (LMS). Eric Moore outlines the best practices to effectively design canvas modules.
Educator and Inclusion Advocate Zach Smith shares the rookie mistake he made in Special Education and how he learned from it through fostering relationships through Specially Designed Instruction (SDI) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Deeper Learning seeks to empower students to think deeper, collaborate better, and problem-solve meaningfully. As employers turn their focus to “skills” like dependability, self-motivation, and problem-solving, teachers, schools, and districts must do the same.
Guiding words to help educators connect with their students and peers in support of the Black Lives Matter Movement and Racial Justice
In a time of Emergency Online Learning, the founding principles of UDL (Multiple Means of Representation, Engagement, and Action and Expression) provide solutions that are critical in an online environment.
Even though our conventional use of using UDL to design lesson plans has changed, there are guiding questions that educators use when designing conventional instruction that are still applicable and, perhaps, more critical in the online environment. Here are Guiding Questions to build out an (online or in-person) UDL Lesson Plan
Simple Tools for Surviving Virtual Meetings By Sarah Kyriazis When the pandemic hit, like most of us who work in offices or classrooms, I grabbed the essential things I thought I would need in the case we wouldn’t be back for weeks. My first priority was my coffee machine and my extra pods, I then packed some books (that I haven’t had a chance to read), an extra device, my colorful felt tip pens, and the last bottle of hand sanitizer. On my way out the door I thought, what else do I need? I popped into our office’s supply