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VOICES FROM THE FIELD Explore practical examples from the field of how educators are adapting to serve all students in the era of remote learning. Educators share technical descriptions of how they are working to move from face-to-face to at-a-distance learning with reflections and lessons learned about their experiences. These cases are for the field and we will continue to add more - use the forum to tell us what kinds of practical examples you need! ​ Please note: We have gathered stories and examples from schools and educators working hard to continue educating students with disabilities in the rapidly evolving situation around COVID-19. Our aim is to share information and inspire potential ways educators may incorporate these approaches in their individual school settings. While we know everyone is working hard and doing their best, we also have to recognize that, in the interest of getting information out to the field as expeditiously as possible, these approaches are too early to demonstrate outcomes and/or an evidence base prior to sharing. We are learning together. Leading by example. Special Educators Serve as a Source of Stability in Uncertain Times This case study describes a special educators journey through online learning outlining how her journey was made successful with the help of parents, and school leaders. She describes specific steps she took to keep the student at the center of their learning in the virtual environment. Learn More Planning Alternative Futures With Hope: Connecting Students to Their Goals and Dreams at a Distance Checking in with students is extra important during distance learning and the pandemic. This case study describes how educators can turn the act of checking in with students into a deeper and more tangible empathy-building opportunity. This practical guidance can help ensure that we meet the social and emotional needs of students while also making progress on learning goals and responding to the needs of the entire family. Learn More Changing and Learning Together In this case study, a principal describes critical strategies to surface and learn about the experiences of staff, students, and families during distance learning. Learnings about strengths and challenges of the online approach during closure are discussed, along with plans for transition back to face-to-face, hybrid, or further online learning. Learn More Supporting Communities During the Pandemic This case study highlights how a community organization stepped in to improve families’ access to community resources. It details specific resources that were made available to families and children and how the community organization worked with school districts to make sure students’ basic needs were being met. Learn More Co-Teaching Virtually: A Model to Support All Learners Two eighth-grade teachers discuss the success they have found in co-teaching in a distance learning setting during the pandemic. They highlight collaboration strategies to create an accessible and mutually supportive teaching model for math instruction that engages all learners. Learn More Flexible Mindsets to Change: Navigating the Challenges of Shifting Contexts for Learning Three staff members of a charter management organization discuss how they implemented and continue to update a plan to provide a comprehensive learning environment for all students. They discuss the importance of a flexible mindset, their efforts to create a sense of culture for students and staff, and how they approach challenges with translating special education services to a virtual environment. Learn More The Opportunity for Stronger Connection to Your School Community A high school special education teacher who teaches in a self-contained classroom discusses positive changes to his practice and classroom community during distance learning. He describes practical tips for strengthening communication in classrooms where the first language of many parents is not English, while also improving overall relationships with your classroom community. Learn More Meeting Students Where They Are: Strategies for Adapting Services for Students with Disabilities A paraprofessional at a rural high school discusses how she has adapted her services to a virtual learning environment. She shares specific strategies she has used with her three students, who have social and emotional disorders, significant physical disabilities and dyslexia, respectively. She discusses how she has tailored her services not only to accommodate her students’ disabilities, but to their individual levels of motivation and interest as well. Learn More Inclusion in Remote Learning: It Isn’t One-Size-Fits-All A principal and executive director of an inclusive charter school describes a case-by-case approach to special education in the virtual environment and reflects on elements of virtual learning that can be carried forward into the brick and mortar setting. Key takeaways about educating English Language Learners remotely are shared. Learn More Providing Services to Students who are Deafblind: Coming together as a field In this case study, an expert in special education and mother of a child who is deafblind describes replicable strategies that can be leveraged with deafblind students in distance learning. The author uses her family’s experience to discuss the struggles deafblind students face when moving to the virtual learning world, as well as the potential of the distance learning experience for students who are deafblind. Learn More Supporting Students with Significant Needs in Distance Learning A school leader at a full-time special education day school discusses critical strategies for distance learning with students who have significant needs. Transitioning technology, communicating with parents, establishing routines, prioritizing engagement, and implementing many ways for students to show what they know as learning demands are increased are addressed with illustrative examples. Learn More Social Emotional Growth through Academic Content for All Students This case study describes the experiences of a fifth-grade special education teacher in New York City as she works to support her students’ basic and social-emotional needs—as well as their need for academic process during distance learning. She reflects on her experience and specific strategies, and she describes her classroom’s transformative experience during a unit on poetry. Learn More Practice based models. Using Pets to Meet Occupational Therapy Goals in the Virtual Setting This case study explores the calming and motivating presence of pets during virtual learning, particularly within the context of school-based occupational therapy. In it, an occupational therapist talks about the benefits of leveraging students’ surroundings in their virtual environments to keep students engaged. Learn More Occupational Therapy in the Park: A Creative, Socially Distant Solution for a Child With a Learning Disability and ADHD An occupational therapist describes her solution for a student who was responding negatively to virtual lessons: They met up for a socially distant lesson in a local park. She describes the strategies she put in place and how she used the surroundings to make a meaningful and engaging lesson. She also highlights the ways that face-to-face practices don’t always need to be in an office or a school to be successful. Learn More Uplifting Student Voices: Using Accessible Templates and Tools for Virtual Presentations This case study describes a middle school special education teacher’s creative solutions for pushing students to create and virtually present using Google Slides in a self-contained classroom. Students present projects they develop and are proud of during the time of distance learning. The use of paced Google Slides templates, word banks, sentence starters, select-to-speak tools, and videoconferencing replicate the types of accommodations and supports students would (and need to) have in the classroom. Learn More A Study in Augmentative Communication in Distance Learning This case study describes a speech and language pathologist’s experience supporting a middle school student with complex communication needs and behavioral challenges. Strategies for mapping student needs to clinician strategies are discussed, with an emphasis on how to leverage student agency in the teletherapy process. The use of augmentative communication in distance learning is explored. Learn More The Push-In Model in a Virtual Classroom This case study describes a speech-language pathologist’s transition from face-to-face push-in sessions to an online push-in format in virtual classrooms. Technology resources and new strategies are trialed with a middle school–age student working on writing and comprehension at a school for students with language-based learning differences. Screen sharing, breakout rooms, chat feature, whiteboard features, and Google programs are discussed. Learn More Chemistry at Home: Accessible Experiments and Science Literacy This case study describes an inclusive highschool chemistry classroom, and use of Google Forms, Newsela and video tutorials to support all students learning from home. Practitioners describe an accessible weekly approach to distance science learning that emphasizes hands-on experimentation, the use of common house-hold materials, student explanation, and the development of science literacy. Learn More Transforming the Parent-Teacher Relationship in Remote Learning Brittany Moser, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) coach at Neighborhood Charter Schools, shares a resource aimed at partnering families and schools during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this case study, Brittany shares how her resource, “Tips and Tricks for Remote Learning,” became a foundational launchpad for supporting families in educating their children remotely. Learn More Growth Mindset and Mindfulness at a Distance This inclusive class is designed to help students manage the emotions of daily life and school. During distance learning, we can help our students find helpful strategies to center themselves when they’re feeling big emotions. We can also use this time to continue to build community and relationships so that students feel it’s safe to come to us when they need their teacher’s support. Learn More Remote Parent Coaching This case study describes a virtual Speech and Language Pathology session focused on language and social pragmatics. Clinicians describe working with a kindergarten student with autism and challenges with language. The use of Zoom, online animated story books, and digital manipulatives are described. Learn More A Virtual Session: Language & Social Pragmatics This case study describes a virtual Speech and Language Pathology session focused on language and social pragmatics. Clinicians describe working with a kindergarten student with autism and challenges with language. The use of Zoom, online animated story books, and digital manipulatives are described. Learn More Multisensory Reading Instruction This case study describes an example of multisensory reading instruction implemented through a distance learning approach. The practitioner describes working with a first grade student with a diagnosis of dyslexia and significant reading difficulty. The use of video conferencing to support strategies like modeling, family coaching/support and game-based learning are described. Learn More Middle School Math: Graphing Virtually This case study describes a virtual math support session focused on learning to graph from an equation in slope-intercept form and anxiety mitigation. The practitioner describes working with a seventh grade student with a diagnosis of dyscalculia. The use of Zoom, a magnetic whiteboard in lieu of a life-sized coordinate plane, google docs as a shared virtual notebook, and video tutorials to support learning and teaching are described. Learn More

EDUCATING ALL LEARNERS DURING THE COVID-19 DISASTER An alliance dedicated to equity for complex learners CONNECT TO RESOURCE LIBRARY The Educating All Learners Alliance is committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability. This site was created rapidly to respond to the immediate needs of educators during the COVID-19 crisis, and we are in the process of redesigning certain elements to fully meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0, Level AA) published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). We are committed to continuous improvement. Our full accessibility statement is available on the menu button in the upper right-hand corner. If you have any challenges accessing this site, please contact resources@educatingalllearners.org and we will work with you to identify an alternative way to share the site's content. 55.1m K-12 students are currently affected by school closures 7.5m students in special education are currently affected by school closure K-12 schools in the United States are closed 124,000 EDUCATING ALL LEARNERS IS FOR YOU . The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the many ways in which public schools strengthen the fabric of community life and provide a safety net for our most vulnerable students. Rapidly evolving school closures and remote operation of schools are presenting tremendous challenges to families, students, educators, and administrators alike. Each and every student deserves to learn in a supportive environment where they can thrive. The one in 13 young people in the United States who receive special education services are the most likely to benefit from inclusive and equitable school management. Remote school operation is on course to compound and further exacerbate the disparities imposed by race and class for students who receive special education services. As schools shift to online learning, the needs of students with disabilities are too often put on the back burner—instead, they must be considered from the beginning. Family communication, online instruction, teleconferencing and counseling, independent study, blended learning, needs assessment, and data tracking and analytics are each stronger and more effective when they are designed to meet the needs of all learners. ​ The Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is an uncommon coalition of organizations committed to resource sharing and community-building that supports the efforts of the education community to meet the needs of students with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. ​ We are committed to showing the path to possible for practitioners by providing curated, searchable resources, access to experts, and examples from the field. ​ MEET ALLIANCE PARTNERS ASK FOR HELP TIP OF THE WEEK As teachers move to support the classrooms in a remote learning context - models for co-teaching and team teaching - should shift. Read this week's case study about how one team is doing it. READ MORE ABOUT THE TIP OF THE WEEK Contribute a Resource We believe that there are bright spots all over the field. Share a tool, tip, or a bright spot with the Educating All Learner Community community for a chance to be featured on the EALA website. CONTRIBUTE NOW Get To Know Us We believe that there are examples everywhere of educators committed to creatively addressing student needs in this new landscape. Our Alliance comes together to empower those educators with tools, expertise and a online gathering place. LEARN MORE LATEST NEWS . Aucun post publié dans cette langue actuellement Dès que de nouveaux posts seront publiés, vous les verrez ici. READ MORE NEWS STORIES Contact Us