05.05 Diverse Learner Resource Roundup
It’s May! Thanks for all of the kind messages last week on how useful these are. Glad to be of service and point you to the resources that’ll be impactful for your practice. Please let me know what you’re looking for (or if you find anything great I should share!)
By May 2021, we can confidently say that our diverse learners have equitable access to high quality educational opportunities that inspire progress toward their individualized goals across learning environments.
As always, use what you need, when you need it. Comment below with how you’re putting these ideas to work, what you’ve found most useful, or where gaps continue to exist or show up.
READ TO THIS: Forget Learning Loss, This is Learning Realignment - what a helpful metaphor for the changes we’ll need to employ to student experience in the next season!
PLANNING FOR INSTRUCTION
EALA’s accessible guide on supporting remote learning in equitable, engaging ways
ABC’s 8 Ways to Elevate Your Specially Designed Instruction Skills for Hybrid Settings would be a great coaching tool!
NIET’s Student Engagement versus Student Ownership makes me think of our focus on supporting diverse learner independence
A reminder of the wealth of ideas contained in CAST’s UDL Guidelines
NEXT YEAR
Reimagining MTSS through UDL - I know many of reimagining RTI and MTSS, this provides tangible criteria for success to this end
EL Advocacy Case Study - Some great examples of how to dig into the EL experience this year and plan for better
Professional Learning Needs Assessment - understand what your team will need and how to deliver
4 Ways to Include Student Mental Health in Reopening Plans and CASEL’s SEL Roadmap - both are practical for now and in planning for a new school year
Looking for something specific, let me know!
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