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The new leverage briefs are the culmination of OSEP’s Attract, Prepare, Retain: Effective Personnel for All Initiative and highlight 13 leverage points covering strategies recognized by various stakeholders as essential to addressing critical shortages in the special education workforce.
This webpage details eight strategies for building and maintaining a community of learners in a virtual environment.
This article from the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) describes specific considerations and strategies for parents when supporting their students with disabilities in beginning online instruction.
Do2learn provides thousands of free pages with social skills and behavioral regulation activities and guidance, learning songs and games, communication cards, academic material, and transition guides for employment and life skills.
The Learning Lab provides teachers access to millions of digital resources from across the Smithsonian's museums, research centers, libraries, archives, and more. Collections include lessons, activities, and recommended resources made by Smithsonian museum educators and classroom teachers and are supported by trainings, office hours, and models of best practice.
This website provides comprehensive, content-rich learning materials based on the Core Knowledge Sequence. Student readers, teacher guides, activity books, and other materials are available for Language Arts and History and Geography. Materials for Science, Music, and Visual Arts are in development.
Provides tips and resources in response to the top eight questions you should consider before facilitating online learning.
This report from Hanover Research outlines best practice approaches in the development and implementation of high quality online and hybrid courses for K-12 students. It includes four profiles of exemplary district-level online and hybrid programs and details the elements of the online learning options offered to secondary students.
This document from the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) lays out steps for preparing and executing an online course that can meet the needs of students with disabilities.
These behavior strategies from the National Center on Intensive Interventions (NCII), organized around antecedent modification, self-management, and reinforcement strategies, can be used to support with primary academic deficits and challenging behaviors.
Presents math word problems geared toward children from preschool to late elementary school. A new vignette with built-in math problem is posted daily, with a full archive of problems.
Provides a brief list of four things that teachers should know, and actions they can take, to guide children’s learning in a virtual setting, including links to additional resources.
This page links to resources and information for conducting speech-language-hearing services using telepractice.
This page provides guidance for using telehealth and e-visits to conduct services for PT and PTA.
This organization provides guidance for OT practitioners, educators, and students to incorporate telehealth into their practice in the absence of opportunity for face-to-face therapy.
A product of the OSEP-funded DIAGRAM Center and WGBH, this page includes videos with captions and descriptions and games that are keyboard navigable. All videos are captioned in Spanish.