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"This site is designed to provide you with resources to help you successfully implement inclusive practices in your classroom, differentiate your instruction, collect data on student achievement and behavior, and provide modifications and accommodations to your les"

Development of the "All Children Can Read" site began in 2006 as part of the National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness (NCDB) Literacy Practice Partnership. The goal of this site is to provide information and resources for teaching and working with children who have complex learning challenges. Specifically, the site is designed for individual state deaf-blind projects, teachers, family members and related services providers interested in beginning or enhancing literacy instruction for children who have combined vision and hearing loss.

"The first one is about the Declaration of Independence and uses One Republic's Too Late to Apologize. The second video, which won an Emmy for Best Informational / Instructional Program in 2012, is about women's suffrage and it uses Lady Gaga's Bad Romance to tell this important story. These two music videos make great additions to any history teacher's history lesson."

"Math Webinar Series "Maximizing ALL Students' Mathematical Learning Through the Use of Powerful Instructional Strategies and Techniques" Archive:"

"The Accommodations Wheel is a resource educators can use to find and develop opportunities to provide students equal access to instruction and assessments"

"Math Reasoning Inventory (MRI) is an online formative assessment tool designed to make teachers' classroom instruction more effective."

"The non-profit ReadWorks is committed to solving the nation's reading comprehension crisis by giving teachers the research-proven tools and support they need to improve the academic achievement of their students. ReadWorks provides research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages directly to educators online, for free, to be shared broadly. The ReadWorks curriculum is aligned to the Common Core State Standards and the standards of all 50 states. Most importantly, ReadWorks is faithful to the most effective research-proven instructional practices in reading comprehension."

"A space to share my own creations, and other interesting bits that cover combining assistive technology, instructional technology and curriculum creation for students with special needs. My personal passion within teaching is finding a way to teach my students the functional academics they need to learn, while still meeting the requirements to teach to state standards. The fusion is possible, but it is a lot of work. I hope that this will grow to become a repository of sample materials that other teachers can use to support their classrooms."

"The process of transforming learning in our schools from an industrial, assembly line model to a modern, learner-centered and learning focused approach involves much more than adopting an expanded set of instructional skills and strategies. It is not just one more thing that educators are asked to do. In reality, this transformation is about approaching the work of learning and teaching differently and implies some fundamental changes in the roles learners and educators play in the educational process."

Thirty years of research shows us that when all students are learning together (including those with the most extensive needs) AND are given the appropriate instruction and supports, ALL students can participate, learn, and excel within grade-level general education curriculum, build meaningful social relationships, achieve positive behavioral outcomes, and graduate from high school, college and beyond. How do we transform education to achieve these goals? According to the research, it takes administrative leadership, multi-tiered systems of support, family and community partnership, an inclusive educational framework including organizational structure and school culture, and policies and practices providing the backbone to these features

"The Motivation Equation: Designing Lessons that Set Kids' Minds on Fire takes that work another big step. Using a lively multimedia platform, Cushman brings the actual work of teachers, the feedback of students, and the commentary of learning scientists to describe how-and why-high motivation and academic mastery develop in the classroom. Guided by an "actual adolescent brain" named Ned Cephalus, readers listen in as six case studies of highly effective curriculum and instruction unfold in diverse middle- and high-school settings. At a touch readers can access: Audio and video clips of students, teachers, and scientists Pop-up summaries of key research Live links to related information Downloadable worksheets for diagnosis and planning Chapter-end discussion prompts for teacher book study A lesson-study collegial protocol focused on motivation"

"Center for Best Practice We are fortunate in Maine to have a number of schools and districts that have taken promising steps toward making a proficiency-based, learner-centered instructional system. The Department's Center for Best Practice, supported by the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, was established to focus on research and reporting related to proficiency-based systems here in Maine"

"The guided reading lesson plans on this webpage were submitted by various WCS teachers. They are to be used as a resource in planning lessons that meet the instruction needs of the learners. They should not be used in a scripted manner."

"Effective instructional leaders don't just focus on student learning. They relentlessly search out and interrogate evidence of that learning."

Key Findings "Teacher leaders can immediately boost student learning in their schools. Some 70 percent of participants achieved notable gains in student achievement across classrooms they supervised during their training year. Teacher leaders can quickly develop and apply critical leadership skills. Participants made significant, measureable gains on high-impact skills, such as using student data and coaching to improve instruction. Teacher leaders can fill gaps in the leadership pipeline. After one year of Emerging Leaders, 80 percent of participants who were accepted to a principal apprenticeship started that training having mastered key leadership skills. The report includes recommendations for steps stakeholders can take to unleash the potential of teacher leadership to support student success."

Turning Around Chronically Low-Performing Schools Low-performing schools can quickly increase student achievement using multiple turnaround actions that need to be jointly implemented. These actions target leadership and instructional practices, staff commitment, and visible improvements early in the process.

"Effective Classroom Assessment: Linking Assessment with Instruction Successful middle schools engage students in all aspects of their learning. There are many strategies for accomplishing this. One such strategy is student-led conferences. As a classroom teacher or administrator, how do you ensure that the information shared in a student-led conference provides a balanced picture of the student's strengths and weaknesses? The answer to this is to balance both summative and formative classroom assessment practices and information gathering about student learning. Assessment is a huge topic that encompasses everything from statewide accountability tests to district benchmark or interim tests to everyday classroom tests. 4 In order to grapple with what seems to be an over use of testing, educators should frame their view of testing as assessment and that assessment is information. The more information we have about students, the clearer the picture we have about achievement or where gaps may occur."

Olmsted Falls City Schools Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment website - where information on their OIP process is shared