Self-Advocacy Skills and Self-Determination for Students With Disabilities

Self-Advocacy Skills and Self-Determination for Students With Disabilities

Personalized learning requires students to make good choices about their learning, assert their needs and pursue their goals in order to be successful. This report from the National Center for Learning Disabilities summarizes three actions teachers and schools can...
Four Tips for Teaching Students with Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Four Tips for Teaching Students with Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Oppositional defiant disorder is a condition in which children regularly demonstrate anger, opposition and defiance, especially toward those in authority. This article provides four tips from experienced teachers on working with students who are diagnosed with this...
Using Sentence Frames to Assist Struggling Writers

Using Sentence Frames to Assist Struggling Writers

This presentation provides the rationale for using sentence frames with struggling writers, as well as provides example sentence frames to use in various forms of writing including character analysis, compare and contrast, opinion, and others! Click here to access the...
Tween Tribune; Various lexile levels per story

Tween Tribune; Various lexile levels per story

New from the Smithsonian:This free K-12 resource for teachers consists of daily news sites for kids, tweens, and teens at various lexile levels per story. The stories include text, photos, graphics, and audio and/or video materials prepared by the Smithsonian and...
Fifty-Six Formative Assessment Strategies and Ideas

Fifty-Six Formative Assessment Strategies and Ideas

When incorporated into classroom practice, the formative assessment process provides information needed to adjust teaching and learning while they are still happening. This document provides a few examples that may be used in the classroom during the formative...