5 coping skills to help students cope with stressors that can get in the way of learning.
Fight or Flight: 5 Coping Skills to Assist in Remote Learning
How to Design Effective Canvas Modules
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.
My Rookie Mistake in Special Education
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)
Exploring the Depths of Deeper Learning
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 Racial Justice
Guiding words to help educators connect with their students and peers in support of the Black Lives Matter Movement and Racial Justice
UDL: An Instructional Anchor From the Past, For the Present, and Into the Future
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.
Remote or Not, UDL Lessons Still Apply
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
Post-it Protocols
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