This form was designed to provide classroom teams with a way to reflect on their practice and set priorities to focus their efforts to address the conditions in their interactions with students.
Learn about eight conditions or principles associated with literacy learning success for students with significant support needs.
Learn about each of the elements of daily comprehensive instruction that are required for a student to learn to read with comprehension and to write to convey thinking.
Learn about the importance of having cognitive clarity—understanding why you are doing what you are doing—for teachers, classroom staff, and students alike.
Learn about instructional practices that teachers can apply to promote cognitive engagement and support students in turning their brains on and engaging because they want to engage, not because they have to complete the task.
Learn about the need for more knowledgeable others to provide instruction, to support and problem-solve learning challenges, and to help students experience the value and joy of reading.
Learn about the importance of students having ways to communicate, whatever the means, to engage in literacy learning.
Learn about the power and necessity of students making personal connections to the curriculum and practical ideas for teachers to promote these critical connections.
Learn about how teachers can provide repetition with variety to give students opportunities to use new information in familiar experiences.
This guide includes the steps to use the Establishing the Condition for Success videos with teachers.
This module will help participants to support student learning of addition facts, the properties of addition, and the use of manipulatives for students with physical barriers.
In this module, participants learn how other mathematical operations play a role in learning division as well as gain greater understanding of the importance of receptive and expressive language in communicating about division.
Participants of this module will learn how repeated addition and arrays support understanding of multiplication, will use multiple representations to model multiplication, and how the properties of multiplication help to support student understanding.
In this module, participants will make connections between addition and subtraction, as well as learn subtraction strategies, structures, and properties for students with significant cognitive disabilities.
In this self-contained elementary classroom, students work as a group with a teacher to complete an "Internal States Chart" that identifies events, characters involved, and the characters' feelings in a text.