Network Sessions
"Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life." – Amy Poehler
Session Materials and Summaries
Find everything you need from each AN session HERE. Slides & agendas will have live links to everything covered that day.
Creating a Web of Support Series
Session 2 - Unstuck & On Target: A Journey to Real Behavior Change
Unstuck and On Target (UOT), a highly effective intervention for students ages 8-15, is an executive function curriculum designed to improve flexibility, planning, organization, problem solving, emotional regulation/coping, and goal setting. Watch as Radford City Public School's Behavior Interventionist, Blake Burdack, shares his division's implementation journey of Unstuck & On Target. He will briefly discuss/demonstrate:
Why schools are seeing increasing issues with emotional regulation
How the use of UOT can help boost the critical skills needed by so many students
Specific ways UOT materials and strategies are being used in Radford
Data to support the positive impact of using this model
Join us for an exciting live virtual session: Using Project Based Learning to Level the Playing Field!
If you would like to know more about the work Chad Ratliff is doing in his school, you can watch this free edWeb webinar: Teaching in the Time of COVID: The Challenges and Opportunities for Transformation
UDL & Project Based Learning Resources
The IRIS Center offers Universal Design for Learning: Creating a Learning Environment that Challenges and Engages All Students, a free module that examines the three principles of Universal Design for Learning. Related service providers may refine their understanding of how to apply these principles to student goals, instructional materials, instructional methods, and assessments to better serve their students and support educators.
First, a new body of research on Project Based Learning was just released that makes the case for PBL with the strongest evidence yet, using randomized control studies.
And as a result of this new research, we’re offering a new Advanced Placement PBL Series this summer.
Here’s a look at 6 PBL Strategy Guides that include tips for remote learning. Plus, explore another 12 Strategy Guides on other PBL topics, too! Download the PDFs
Get the PBL Project Designer, and start adapting projects for your classroom. Includes access to 72 Gold Standard PBL projects.
"Project Based Learning as a pedagogy is a great vehicle for meaningful inclusion because each of its project design elements and teaching practices are geared toward creating the kind of engaging and dynamic learning environment that are also known to best serve students with a wide range of disabilities."
This webinar was recorded live and edited into three parts with the goal of professional development material for administrators, all teachers as well as co-teaching teams, either individually or as a community of practice. This can be used in your division, your school, your department, or at any grade level. Attendees will learn about the High Leverage Practices (HLP’s) in Special Education, the importance of HLP #16, explicit instruction (EI), in all learning environments followed by videos of these practices in action. Access to this webinar series is free, but registration is required as it is possible to earn professional development hours by completing it.