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11 Things Supervisors Should Do to Support Instructional Coaches

December 9, 2025 Instructional coaching is a highly effective form of professional development and learning (PDL) in K-12 schools. As Daryl Michel and Dawn Brookhart point out in their popular new guidebook Instructional…

10 Ways to Support Executive Function Skills

October 21, 2025 Executive function skills, including flexibility, organization, planning, and working memory, play a key role in your students’ success in the classroom and beyond. In this infographic—adapted from some great, practical…

12 Academic Supports to Help All Students Succeed

October 9, 2025 If you’re reading the Brookes blog, you’re probably here for practical tips on helping all students—with and without disabilities—have a successful school year. Adapted from eight of our popular books,…

10 Worst Modifications for Students with Disabilities (and 100+ Good Ideas!)

July 29, 2025 Good modifications are a wonderful way to support your students with disabilities so they can experience everything the general curriculum has to offer. But bad modifications---at best, they don't help,…

11 Strategies for Helping Your Students Develop Disability Pride

July 1, 2025 Updated 7/1/2025 If you teach in an inclusive classroom, here's one critical way you can support your students with disabilities: by helping them strengthen their sense of disability pride and…

4 Key Steps to Student Conflict Resolution

June 11, 2025 Conflicts between classmates are a normal part of growing up. But left unchecked, peer problems can interrupt classtime, cause emotional stress, and derail your students' learning. Giving students some simple…

Supporting Students on the Path to Disability Pride

October 27, 2024 *Updated 10/28/24 How can you best support students with non-visible disabilities---such as speech/language disorders, learning disabilities, and behavioral disorders---on their path to disability pride and empowerment? That's what we'll discuss…

4 UDL Books Every Teacher Needs

June 5, 2024 Universal design for learning (UDL) has long been one of the most-discussed topics among our blog readers and social media followers. In this week’s post, we’re highlighting four acclaimed UDL…

17 Ways to Improve Your Students’ Oral Language Skills

June 4, 2024 UPDATED: June 2024 Oral language skills are vitally important for your students to master---both for social and academic success. Learners use this skill throughout the day to process and deliver…

Delivering Special Education Online: 4 Types of Engagement to Promote

May 28, 2024 Engagement is a prerequisite for learning wherever instruction is delivered—whether in-person or virtually. Because distance education will continue to be an effective way to meet the needs of many students,…

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