Special Education

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…
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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…
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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,…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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