PDF Resource: UDL Strategies to Provide Specially Designed Instruction in the General Education Classroom helps to clarify the differences between a universal design that includes scaffolds and accommodations and specifically designed instruction and modifications for students with disabilities.
Specially Designed Instruction: Quality Practices for Inclusive Settings
Here is a FREE professional learning series for paras on Inclusive Education
Special Education Paraprofessional Supports in Inclusive Schools - Provides alternative models for organizing para support to support a caseload.
SDI/Accommodation Support Resource & IEP and Lesson Plan Development
The Role of Special Education Teachers in Promoting an Inclusive Classroom
Aligning IEP Goals to Common Core Standards (Video: 1 hr 11 minutes)
How ALL Teachers Can Support Students with Disabilities in the General Education Classroom - Tool to support planning
5-15-45 Tool - Tool to support collaboration b/w sped and gen ed teachers
Accommodations for All Learners: Website with ideas on practical options and choices that increase accessibility.
Comprehensive Inclusive Education: General Education and the Inclusive IEP
Myths and Facts About Inclusionary Practices in Washington State
Improving Instruction for Students with Disabilities and All Students at Tier I
Watch: Friendship Circle - 10 Examples Of Inclusion: For Those Who Need To See It To Believe It (10 different videos included in link)
Read:
The American Occupational Therapy Association Article - Occupational Therapy and Universal Design for Learning
This article, Universal Design for Learning: Speech-Language Pathologists and Their Teams Making the Common Core Curriculum Accessible is about how speech and language pathologists can make rigorous instruction accessible to all learners through the principles of UDL. This is peer-reviewed and a heavy read but the findings are awesome.
Resources About Growth Mindset - How You Can Incorporate SEL into Your Small Group Time With Students
Watch: Message of Growth Mindset
Watch: This Is Why Will Smith Wants You to Fail Before You Succeed - Fail Forward
Read & Listen: Supporting Student Productive Struggle
Read: 8 Teaching Habits that Block Productive Struggle in Math
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