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Luft, Pamela; Brochu, Charlotte; Rasizzi, Ashley; Tanner, Courtney – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2022
When Charlotte Brochu, Ashley Rasizzi, and Courtney Tanner taught deaf and hard of hearing students in public schools to complete their course assignments at Kent State University, they wanted to incorporate transformative strategies and their state's standards into their instruction. To become transformative teachers, Brochu, Rasizzi, and Tanner…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Deafness, Students with Disabilities, Public Schools
Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disabilities, 2022
This booklet has been developed in hopes that it may aid in keeping communication open and focused between families and schools. Building communication between parents and the school staff through letters offers a way of keeping records of ideas, concerns, and suggestions. This booklet provides general guidelines to writing letters as well as…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Communication Skills, Skill Development, Parent School Relationship
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Schmidt, Elizabeth K.; Robek, Natalie; Dougherty, Megan; Hand, Brittany N.; Havercamp, Susan; Sommerich, Carolyn; Weaver, Lindy; Darragh, Amy – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2021
Introduction: According to the World Health Organization, sexuality education (SE) is considered a human right and aims to increase understanding, decrease abuse, unplanned pregnancies, and sexually transmitted infections. Yet, individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities are less likely to receive or SE is primarily focused on…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Access to Education, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
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Michael S. Garet; Kerstin Carlson Le Floch; Daniel Hubbard; Joanne Carminucci; Barbara Goodson – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2024
Boosting literacy among school-age children remains a national priority. Nearly one third of students in the United States have not developed the foundational reading skills needed to succeed academically, with students living in poverty, students with disabilities, and English learners especially at risk. Starting in 2010, Congress invested more…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Literacy Education, Evidence Based Practice, Grants
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Graham, Steve; Wolbers, Kimberly; Dostal, Hannah; Holcomb, Leala – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2021
Forty-four elementary grade teachers of deaf and hard of hearing students were surveyed about how they taught writing and their beliefs about writing. Beliefs about writing included their self-efficacy to teach writing, attitude toward writing, and epistemological beliefs about writing. These teachers from fifteen different states in the United…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Students with Disabilities
Graham, Steve; Wolbers, Kimberly; Dostal, Hannah; Holcomb, Leala – Grantee Submission, 2021
Forty-four elementary grade teachers of deaf and hard of hearing students were surveyed about how they taught writing and their beliefs about writing. Beliefs about writing included their self-efficacy to teach writing, attitude towards writing, and epistemological beliefs about writing. These teachers from 15 different states in the United States…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Students with Disabilities
Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disabilities, 2019
This booklet has been developed in hopes that it may aid in keeping communication open and focused between families and schools. Building communication between parents and the school staff through letters offers a way of keeping records of ideas, concerns, and suggestions. This booklet provides general guidelines to writing letters as well as…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Communication Skills, Skill Development, Parent School Relationship
Meghan Comstock; Adam K. Edgerton; Laura M. Desimone – Grantee Submission, 2022
Background/Context: Instructional policy aims to shift the nature of teaching and learning. Decades of policy studies have highlighted the challenges inherent in these aims and the conditions necessary to support such change, including a robust infrastructure to support teacher learning. Further, teachers themselves must perceive and experience…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Practices, State Policy, Educational Change
Meghan Comstock; Adam K. Edgerton; Laura M. Desimone – Teachers College Record, 2022
Background/Context: Instructional policy aims to shift the nature of teaching and learning. Decades of policy studies have highlighted the challenges inherent in these aims and the conditions necessary to support such change, including a robust infrastructure to support teacher learning. Further, teachers themselves must perceive and experience…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Practices, State Policy, Educational Change
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Edgerton, Adam K.; Fuchs, Douglas; Fuchs, Lynn S. – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background/Context: The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA, 2004) requires that all students with disabilities (SWD) receive a free, appropriate public education designed to meet their unique needs to prepare them for post-school education and employment (American Psychological Association, 2018). In the past two decades, momentum…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Educational Policy
Edgerton, Adam K.; Fuchs, Douglas; Fuchs, Lynn S. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Background/Context: The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA, 2004) requires that all students with disabilities (SWD) receive a free, appropriate public education designed to meet their unique needs to prepare them for post-school education and employment (American Psychological Association, 2018). In the past two decades, momentum…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Educational Policy
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Swerdan, Matthew G.; Rosales, Rocío – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2017
An adapted alternating treatments design was used to compare the efficacy of echoic and textual prompts to teach three students with autism (ages 8-15) to ask questions related to two pre-selected topics of conversation. Participants were first required to answer questions related to the topics to determine whether accurate responses were within…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Developmental Disabilities, Elementary School Students
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Telfer, Deborah; Howley, Aimee – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2014
This article presents case studies of two rural districts--both confronting economic and demographic challenges--that were making significant strides toward closing achievement gaps between students with and without disabilities. The districts accomplished this work by using six practices, common to both but implemented differently in each: (a)…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Rural Schools, Disabilities, High Achievement
Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning, 2018
The Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning (C-SAIL), examines through four lines of study to determine how college- and career-readiness (CCR) standards are implemented, if they improve student learning, and what instructional tools measure and support their implementation. This brief presents findings from C-SAIL's…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Language Arts, Mathematics Education, School Districts
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Edgerton, Adam K.; Desimone, Laura M. – AERA Open, 2018
Using state-representative teacher surveys in three states--Texas, Ohio, and Kentucky--we examine teachers' implementation of college- and career-readiness (CCR) standards. What do teachers report about the specificity, authority, consistency, power, and stability of their standards environment? How does their policy environment predict…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Program Implementation, College Readiness, Career Readiness
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