ACCELIBEAT WEEKLY RECAP 2/29 – 3/04
March 4, 2016
The final days of winter are upon us, but that doesn’t keep these students in Maine from hitting the slopes, and neither do their disabilities, thanks to new advances in adaptive technology. Speaking of technology, we have dubbed the month of March #EdTech month, and rightly so it seems, looking at this week’s education news. We’ve got stories about apps for students with special needs, about a network of schools where technology doesn’t replace teaching, but enhances it, and a blog about how technology can be the key to fending off due process suits.
All of that and more in this week’s AcceliBEAT!
Tavenner had founded Silicon Valley charter school and quickly, that Summit quickly grew into seven privately run, publicly funded charter.
3 Ways Technology Can Safeguard Schools Against Due Process
When disputing IEP services through mediation or a due process hearing, these disputes present significant consequences to students with disabilities and the schools that serve them.
Is ‘Grit’ Doomed To Be The New Self-Esteem?
A group of big-city districts in California is among the first to try to measure students’ self-control, empathy and other social and emotional skills — and to hold schools accountable for the answers.
Special Education Announcement Provides a Lesson in Social Justice
An announcement was address disparities in the treatment of students of color with disabilities, we asked two educators to react to the news drawing on their own experiences as special education teachers.
At A School For Kids With Disabilities, The Ski Team Hits The Slopes
The Massachusetts Hospital School, a state-run facility. It’s half school, half pediatric hospital, and all 85 students are patients, with disabilities. That doesn’t keep them from activities kids at other schools do: like skiing.
Obama Administration Aims To Curb Disparities In Special
Federal education officials want states to take action to ensure that minority students aren’t overrepresented in special education.
7 Reading Readiness Apps for Special Needs Students
Savvy app developers are making great products to foster reading readiness, many inspired by their own children or students who struggle with learning.
ESSA Spotlights Strategy to Reach Diverse Learners
Sprinkled throughout the newly reauthorized version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act are references to an instructional strategy that supporters think has enormous potential for reaching learners with diverse needs.