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Kara Arundel

Curriculum & Instruction

Parent training: 5 ways to help parents support distance learning

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Collaboration between school and home results in better outcomes for students, and during the pandemic school districts can take action to support struggling parents, especially parents of children with special needs.
Leadership

Designing instructional cohorts for students with disabilities

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Here are four do's and one don't for using pods or cohorts within special education to help maintain social distancing and minimize outbreaks.
Student Success

Specific Learning Disability identification during COVID-19

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Educators must ensure a lack of appropriate instruction during school closures isn't the only factor when considering if a student has a SLD.
Leadership

8 tips to prevent communication challenges while wearing a mask in school

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Masks will make verbal communication more challenging, especially for those with hearing loss who rely on reading lips to understand speech. Here's what educators can do to help.
Special Education

Avoid punitive approach to school discipline during the pandemic

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Trauma-informed approaches to school discipline support students with challenging behaviors and help create a positive school climate.
Admin & Management

Educators, lawmakers discuss ways to offer in-person services to vulnerable students

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Students with disabilities, and those from poorer families, likely struggled the most during extended school closures this spring, testified witnesses at a hearing on reopening schools hosted by a House subcommittee.
Cybersecurity

Exclusionary school discipline approaches not effective at preventing school violence

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A new Government Accountability Office report examines school shooting data by type, location, time of day, school year and relationship of the shooter to the school community.
Admin & Management

Supreme Court ruling on religious school tuition

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Exclusion of religious schools in a tax-based scholarship program is discriminatory, according to the decision, which is a disappointment to many public school supporters.
Admin & Management

4 ways to incorporate inclusive practices

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Prioritizing inclusion for students with disabilities, during both in-person and remote learning, is challenging, but such practices increase engagement and create supportive school communities for all.
Health and wellness

Lessons from South Korea on social distancing in schools

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An early childhood English teacher in South Korea, originally from West Virginia, shares how social distancing and sanitizing measures have been frustrating and distracting to learning—and have helped keep students and staff safer.
Assessment & Standards

How to lessen the ‘enormity of challenge’ when students return to school

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Learn the five key considerations educators should ask when responding to students' academic, behavioral, and social-emotional needs when school resumes.
Admin & Management

Avoid pandemic penalties by knowing your special ed spending levels

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Special education administrators should understand current and anticipated funding levels, be aware of how the coronavirus outbreak impacts their budget, and collaborate with other local and state leaders to form plans to address revenue challenges.
Curriculum & Instruction

Videoconferencing for serving physical therapy students

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In this first installment of the Bright Spot of Innovation series—profiling education service providers across the country using innovative and collaborative approaches to serving student with disabilities during school closures—a school physical therapist guides families with individualized exercises through video
Special Education

6 strategies to continue postsecondary transition services during COVID-19

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Tweaking transition planning and services in this time of social distancing involves determining how best to assess, document and communicate with families and students through remote instruction.
Leadership

What will 2020 graduation requirements look like?

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To make graduation determinations during the COVID-19 pandemic, school administrators and IEP teams will need to understand new diploma flexibilities and whether each student with disabilities met the revised course credit requirements.
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