# Special Education ## Articles ### [11 Things Supervisors Should Do to Support Instructional Coaches](https://blog.brookespublishing.com/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](https://blog.brookespublishing.com/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](https://blog.brookespublishing.com/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!)](https://blog.brookespublishing.com/10-worst-classroom-modifications-for-students-with-disabilities-and-100-good/) 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](https://blog.brookespublishing.com/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](https://blog.brookespublishing.com/4-steps-to-student-conflict-resolution-2-student-activities/) 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](https://blog.brookespublishing.com/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](https://blog.brookespublishing.com/3-udl-books-every-teacher-needs-giveaway/) 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](https://blog.brookespublishing.com/11-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](https://blog.brookespublishing.com/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,… --- 123…25>>