This brief adapts the suggestions and strategies provided in Improving Attendance and Reducing Chronic Absenteeism to guide practice during remote instruction.
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This resource focuses on how to use inclusive practices in online environments and highlights how the best practices for including special populations are also the best practices for all students. There are also considerations for teachers around planning inclusive online learning.
Communication is necessary whether students are schooling at home or in school. This resource describes what teachers can do to support students who are using Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) even when they are not in the same location as the student.
Even during distance learning, children’s independence can be improved. This resource discusses how parents can support their child’s time-management skills to improve their child’s independence and help parents find time to meet their own needs.
Even during distance learning, children’s independence can be improved. This resource discusses how self-determined schedule making can be used to increase a child’s independence.
This resource offers ideas to support teachers as they set norms and build routines in an online learning environment during the first days of school.
Families may start to feel “stuck” during distance learning. This resource offers strategies and tools to help families and students get “unstuck” when frustrated with distance learning.
We have talked with many administrators, advocates and teachers and a pressing concern is “How do you collect data for students with significant cognitive disabilities when you are not in the same room?” This resource offers some suggestions.
While most change happens slowly, COVID has forced schools and families to change quickly. This resource offers questions and suggestions for administrators, teachers, and families as e
This resource can help educators create and modify online learning experiences to engage all their students, including students with complex learning needs.
Many classrooms use morning meetings to check-in with students and lay out the goals of the day, and this is still possible with asynchronous distance learning or work packets that go home. See elementary and middle school examples of a morning meeting check-in.
Created by the National Center for Families Learning (NCFL), this website poses an intriguing question—the Wonder of the Day®—and invites students to explore it in a variety of ways.
In this article, online instructors offer wisdom they've gathered -- what to do and what not to do -- from years of experience teaching in the modality.
This pre-recorded webinar provides a message from the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on online education and website accessibility.