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How to Serve Students With Special Needs From Afar

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Find some way, some moment to connect—especially with elementary students, but all your students really—because they’re challenged,” he says. We’re using a variety of methods to provide access to the content and then also in how they’re able to express their understanding in a variety of ways. And then of course, accessibility.

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Support Struggling Readers District Wide with Assistive Tech

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Assistive technology teachers working at schools in the Fairfax County, VA school district, one of the largest in the United States, are finding that the use of audiobooks is improving access to grade-level content while also developing the love of reading that motivates many students to continue improving.

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The Real Crisis in Jewish Education- The High-Functioning Neurodivergent Child Applying to a JDS High School- Part 1 of The "FORGOTTEN MAN" of Jewish Education

Saving Socrates

Some of these neurodivergent children have already been unable to fit into Elementary School Jewish Day School and attend public schools or other non-Jewish private schools. Imagine being a parent of a child who has been asked to leave a JDS in lower elementary school and is now grading 8th grade, ready to re-enter a JDS.

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Students Reflect on Being edWeb Presenters

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In a recent edWebinar, Turn Struggling Readers Into Leaders Using Assistive Technology , Gavin and Marley, two middle school students, along with dyslexia specialist Dana Blackaby, presented on their use of assistive technology that helps struggling readers. We’ve done this a lot at different schools,” Gavin told us.

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Back to School with Choice Boards – SULS0121

Shake Up Learning

Optimize access to tools and assistive technology. . Elementary Digital Playground: Tic-Tac-Toe (Sarah McKinney). Pam also shares in a blog post how she has used choice boards to help teachers learn technology. Pam also shares in a blog post how she has used choice boards to help teachers learn technology.

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How Early Intervention with Dyslexia Benefits Your Students and Your School

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Academically, an investment at the elementary age can keep students reading on level; emotionally, it gives them confidence and makes them feel included with their peer group. Finally, administrators can look for ways to pool resources from different budget streams to assist students.

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Top 10 K–12 Educational Technology Trends

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Schools often have to address issues of equality and funding to ensure that all students, regardless of economic status, have access to a mobile device in the classroom so no one is disadvantaged. 3 Wearable Technology —Wearable technology is an up-and-coming trend in edtech.

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