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Students Reflect on Being edWeb Presenters

edWeb.net

When we “flip” the learning, and have students present to educators in our edWebinars, it’s a great example of how much we can learn from our students. But Gavin felt it was different giving the presentation to adults rather than students. Gavin pointed out that doing the presentation online also meant that more people could attend.

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How we built a whole-child, wraparound approach to special education

eSchool News

We recently had the honor of presenting our model to stakeholders from across the country at AESA’s most recent conference. Opening the Learning Journey We believe in an intentional focus on literacy, numeracy, and assistive technology. For example, we have zen dens where students can relax, take a break, or do some art.

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Support Struggling Readers District Wide with Assistive Tech

edWeb.net

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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To fight teacher shortages, schools turn to custodians, bus drivers and aides 

The Hechinger Report

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. Jenna Gros, head custodian at Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana, stops to tie a student’s shoe. MORGAN CITY, La.

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How to Serve Students With Special Needs From Afar

Edsurge

Find some way, some moment to connect—especially with elementary students, but all your students really—because they’re challenged,” he says. It could be a video, it could be a podcast, it could be a presentation. Because if I can’t do that, then neither can assistive technology. They don’t know what tomorrow holds.

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How we built a whole-child, wraparound approach to special education

eSchool News

We recently had the honor of presenting our model to stakeholders from across the country at AESA’s most recent conference. Opening the Learning Journey We believe in an intentional focus on literacy, numeracy, and assistive technology. For example, we have zen dens where students can relax, take a break, or do some art.

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Back to School with Choice Boards – SULS0121

Shake Up Learning

Optimize access to tools and assistive technology. . However it’s presented the basic concepts are the same. . This means it’s not effective to count how many graphics were used in a presentation and equate that to a point value. Summer VACAY Bingo (Anderson One Instructional Technology Team).