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What Is Universal Design for Learning ?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

As Higbee and Goff (2008) suggest, UD emphasizes accommodating the needs of a diverse user base in the creation of spaces, products, or programs. individuals on skateboards or parents with strollers), as well as automatic doors, elevators, and lever-style door handles (Higbee & Goff, 2008).

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Unique Learning System: Realize the Potential in Every Student

N2Y

When Unique Learning System launched in 2008, special educators found the content and instructional support they needed to help unique learners achieve this goal. In this webinar you’ll learn how to: Take advantage of flexible delivery options and use data to automate differentiated lesson planning, assessment, and reporting.

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Transforming Schools and Outcomes by Using a Culturally Responsive Curriculum

edWeb.net

He also believes the arts are especially important in a district like Mount Vernon because many of the students turned out to be “twice gifted,” despite having received standardized assessment scores that did not reflect their proficiencies. He also directed the development of the Instructional Framework, a multimedia database on teaching.

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To Succeed, Ed Tech Must Be Easy to Use, Good Fit, Analyst Says

Marketplace K-12

percent per year through 2019, when 5 percent annual growth had been the norm before the 2008 recession. Looking ahead, a long period of tech adoption is coming up as the print-to-digital transition continues because most K-12 instructional materials and assessments are still print-based. percent to 3.5

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Explicit Instruction Best Practices for Teaching Math to Unique Learners

N2Y

The Panel published its findings in a formal report in 2008. In an inclusion classroom, a special education teacher may use this real-time formative assessment data to pull a small group of students who are struggling with the same misconception for re-teaching and re-modeling.

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Catholic schools turn to blended learning as a way to address students’ individual needs

The Hechinger Report

The 2008 economic crisis compounded the situation, as fewer families could afford tuition, said Patrick Haggarty, the superintendent of Seattle’s Catholic schools. The blended learning software the school uses allows teachers to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of individual students. Photo: Ben Stocking.