The COVID-19 crisis has caused unprecedented and inequitable learning loss across American K-12 education, particularly for students with learning differences at schools in marginalized communities. This makes equitable learning acceleration more important now than ever before. As schools adapt, how will teachers help all students catch back up? This session describes a potential solution, differentiated flexible small groups, and offers a roadmap for classrooms to implement it. Together, we’ll explore how to leverage granular student data to inform collaborative planning sessions where teachers use UDL principles to design learning environments that help every student make progress, whether in-person or online.

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Presenters
Janet Peters from CITES at CAST & Alise Crossland from AIR

Audience
All educators and families, technology leaders (InfoTech, EdTech and Assistive Tech)

Level of Expertise
All levels

Description

The COVID-19 emergency school building closures have highlighted the importance of technology planning and contingency planning.  For districts around the country, the “impossible” had to quickly become “possible”. The rapid shift to remote teaching and learning exposed areas of significant need in schools and districts, such as access to technology and addressing the needs of students with disabilities. In the context of these challenges, building a strong and inclusive technology ecosystem that incorporates assistive technology, educational technology, and information technology is more critical than ever. In this webinar, leaders at the Center for Inclusive Technology and Education Systems (CITES) will discuss identifying the challenges uncovered by the shift to emergency remote learning, and how school systems can use best practices in technology planning to convert the discovery of challenges into an opportunity to develop innovative solutions.

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Presenters
Janet Peters and Joy Zabala, CITES

Guest Panelists
Janice Carson, Director, Idaho Assistive Technology Project (IATP)
Susan Hardin, Assistive Technology Consultant and UDL Coordinator, Macomb ISD 
Angela Lindig, Executive Director, Idaho Parents Unlimited

Audience
All educators and families, technology leaders (InfoTech, EdTech and Assistive Tech)

Level of Expertise
All levels

Description

In this webinar, CITES leaders host a conversation with CITES advisors and colleagues in-the-trenches to take a closer look at Coordination. We will discuss services that may be available through school and community organizations. The session will provide examples of services that enable students and families to participate and achieve while learning at a distance. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.

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Presenters
Janet Peters & Joy Zabala, CITES, with Chris Bugaj (Loudoun County, Virginia), Dr. Drew Hinds (Silver Falls, Oregon), and Jessica McKay (Ysleta ISD, Texas)

In this webinar, CITES leaders host a conversation with CITES advisors in-the-trenches to take a closer look at Communication and Collaboration–two of the essential elements for working together to support students and their families during the COVID-19 crisis. The discussion will include examples of how communication and collaboration are helping to ensure that students with disabilities and their families have the opportunity to participate in and benefit from learning opportunities using technology and other strategies. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.

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