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This powerpoint is a guide to important definitions, and foundational information regarding IEPs. This could be a good resource when I am needing a refresher on IEP goals or when assisting someone else better understand IEPs.

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This article outlines the racial and ethnic disparities in special education data. This resource helps me better understand what I can do to provide an appropriate learning experience for English Learners. By learning what disadvantages they may be facing, I am able to better accommodate and create a productive learning environment for all students.

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In this Ted Talk, Isael describes the cultural differences he experienced in his home and in his classroom. To create sustainable practices, classrooms must be inclusive of all cultures and include them as a part of the education. By only teaching to the traditional culture within the classroom, students are loosing the opportunity to learn about cultures, traditions and lifestyles different from their own.

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Cultural Pedagogy: Educational Equality for Our Youth | Isael Torres | TEDxSaltLakeCity

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2020 NC Policies Governing Special Ed. Services

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2020 NC Policies Governing Special Ed. Services

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Every public school in NC must abide by the policies and guideline provided in this document. Information regarding referrals, IEP guidelines, FAPE, and more are outlined here.

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This document includes new information about the ASD evaluation process. Specifically about behavioral assessments, sensory processing evaluations, and required screenings.

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NC 2020 Specific Learning Disabilities Addendum 

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The document reflects the most recent policy changes for specific learning disabilities. It reviews definitions, referrals, screening processes, and additional procedures that need to be done to evaluated children with specific learning disabilities.

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This document covers all the rights parents hold in regards to their student. This can be given or recommended to parents, but should also be reviewed by the IEP team to ensure that the parents rights are being respected. The document covers, consent, confidentiality, disability procedures, information about how to advocate for their child if their needs are not being met, and more.

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This documents is written in Spanish for parents who do not speak English as a first language. The document lays out the same information as the English version of the NC Parents Rights. It is important to have these forms available to ensure that parents are giving informed consent and understand what their rights are.

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This video explains students rights to privacy in a simplified way. This is a good refresher for educators and can be recommended to families. The video uses "plain language" to help promote the privacy of families. This video could also be used in the classroom setting to teach students about their own rights.

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Student Privacy 101:  FERPA for Parents and Students

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This example provided by DPI breaks down what an IEP should look like and include. It adds notes to explain sections in more detail and is great for IEP beginners. This document can be a refresher or a teaching tool for families or educators who are new to the IEP process. It never hurts to have an example to go by to ensure that the IEP is written correctly.

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The homepage of NCDHHS. This program allows educators to loan assistive technology devices. This federally funded program also allows demonstrations and training opportunities.

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North Carolina Assistive Technology Program

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This page includes an explanation of NCATP's mission with links to NCATP services, training opportunities, major events, best practices, staff, centers, funding, reuse and other resources.

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This video outlines how assistive technology benefits a student with a vision impairment. This student is interviewed and we see how her uses of assistive technology allows her to participate in a general education classroom with little conflict. This inclusion benefits the student and her peers because they are able to learn and share from one another.

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Fairfax Network - Fairfax County Public Schools

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Best Practices: Successful Inclusion — Dea's Story

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The website assists educators in writing a lesson plan that includes all students. When logged in you can see examples of other lesson plans and write your own. The website provides tips and details on certain sections and can be very beneficial for teachers who are beginning the UDL process. It can also be shared to show that using UDL does not have to be complicated and only takes a few adjustments.

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Message to our Loyal Users of CAST UDL Lesson Builder, UDL Book Builder, UDL Exchange, and UDL Studio

On January 15, 2024, we will retire this website, along with a few others. We know it has many devoted followers who will be sad to see it go. We're sad, too.

Making these creative tools and offering them free-of-charge to educators, parents, and learners at no charge the past decade-plus has been our joy, we also know that usage is way down, funding for the tools ran out years ago, and their underlying technologies are no longer contemporary.

To ensure a smooth transition, we're providing a three-month sunset period so you have sufficient time to download any stored materials you may have on the sites and to find alternative tools. After January 15, we will also close all user accounts.

Thank you again for your understanding and be sure to visit www.cast.org to learn more about the exciting innovations we are pursuing today and tomorrow! Questions: questions@cast.org

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Message to our Loyal Users of CAST UDL Lesson Builder, UDL Book Builder, UDL Exchange, and UDL Studio On January 15, 2024, we will retire this website, along with a few others. We know it has many devoted followers who will be sad to see it go. We're sad, too.

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This outlines what UDL is, the benefits and how to implement it. IT includes a video and specific guidelines on engagement, representation, and action & expression

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1. Home

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UDL at a Glance

Find out how the UDL framework guides the design of instructional goals, assessments, methods, and materials that can be customized and adjusted to meet individual needs.

UDL to Change the World

CAST created the Universal Design for Learning framework, and it remains one of our core levers of change to help make learning inclusive and transformative for everyone.

Universal Design for Learning Guidelines

The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning. These guidelines offer a set of concrete suggestions that can be applied to any discipline or domain to ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities.

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Engagement

For purposeful, motivated learners, stimulate interest and motivation for learning.

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Representation

For resourceful, knowledgeable learners, present information and content in different ways.

Explore Representation

Action & Expression

For strategic, goal-directed learners, differentiate the ways that students can express what they know.

Explore Action & Expression

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This website goes deeper on UDL and provides a dive into engagement, representation and action & expression. It also provides a video of the co-founder of CAST explaining the highlights of UDL. The website is very interactive and allows the viewer to dive deeper into specific subject of interest.

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The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. Learn more about the Universal Design for Learning framework from CAST. The UDL Guidelines can be used by educators, curriculum developers, researchers, parents, and anyone else who wants to implement the UDL framework in a learning environment. These guidelines offer a set of concrete suggestions that can be applied to any discipline or domain to ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities.

Coming soon! UDL Guidelines 3.0

The UDL Guidelines are a living, dynamic tool that is continuously developed based on new research and feedback from practitioners. In 2020, CAST launched our most recent effort to update the UDL Guidelines, with a specific focus on equity. There has been a strong call from the field-both practitioners and researchers alike-to more fully develop the Guidelines to address critical barriers rooted in biases and systems of oppression. The current update aims to respond to this call and to work toward fulfilling the promise of the Guidelines as a tool to guide the design of learning environments that more fully honor and value every learner.

Since our launch in 2020, we have been committed to a community-driven, inclusive, and transparent updating process. As part of this effort, we are:

Collaborating with an Advisory Board, a UDL Guidelines Collaborative, and a Young Adult Advisory Board to guide our work

Conducting focus groups with a diversity of participants to learn from their perspectives, lived experiences, and feedback

Reviewing the research on the UDL Guidelines research pages to understand the balance of different research fields, methodological approaches, epistemological approaches, and author positionalities

Conducting literature reviews of equity-oriented research that connect to and extend the Guidelines, such as disability studies and critical pedagogy studies

We are excited to share this next iteration of the UDL Guidelines in 2024. If you are interested in receiving our UDL Guidelines 3.0 newsletter to stay updated on our progress and to share your ideas and perspectives, please complete this brief form.

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Indiana University provides a transition matrix to provide educators with assessments baed of their students. The matrix asked for the domain, age range, language and disability area.

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Indiana Secondary Transition Resource Center

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Transition Assessment Matrix: Transition Resources: Indiana Secondary Transition Resource Center: Indiana University Bloomington

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The US department of education created a guide for educators to follow when transitioning their students out of high school. It overviews policies, post secondary options for students, and lays out how educators can best support their students in the transition.

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Public Schools of NC provides a table of specific forms and documents educators will need. Some of the forms include an invitation to an IEP meeting, consent form, referrals, supplement forms and eligibility worksheets for a number of disabilities.

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Licensure FAQ License Requirements for EC Administrators Memo Licensure Guidance Tool Memo Fall 2014 PANC Charts School Psychology Licensure Parameters Materials
This archived webinar is intended to provide clarification of NC licensure requirements and the parameters that exist for school psychologists in their practice. Please note, the information is specific to practice within the state of North Carolina. Across the country, states vary in what is considered permissible practice for those credentialed by a State Education Agency in the area of School Psychology. These variances occur as a result of how the laws that guide the practice of psychology are written from state to state. School Psychology Licensure Parameters

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North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Exceptional Children Division website contains resources for parents, teachers, and administrators.

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Autism Spectrum Disorder Policy Changes PPT

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Autism Spectrum Disorder Policy Changes PPT

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This powerpoint breaks down the policy changes we saw in 2020 regarding ASD. The changes focus on evaluation and identification of ASD. This powerpoint is beneficial for visual learners and breaks down the changes in a simple format.

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This module covers cultural and linguistic differences in the classroom. It works through situations where educators are faced with the decision to look through the lenses of a different culture or continue to view the situation from their own culture. The module provides beneficial examples, questions and solutions to situations revolving around differences in cultural.

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This module examines the ways in which culture influences the daily interactions that occur across all classrooms and provides practice for enhancing culturally responsive teaching (est. completion time: 1 hour).

Work through the sections of this module in the order presented in the STAR graphic above.

Related to this module

Copyright 2024 Vanderbilt University. All rights reserved.

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Cultural and Linguistic Differences: What Teachers Should Know

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This webpage includes an implementation guide for using MTSS in North Carolina. Including the six key components, how to measure MTSS, data evaluation, and monitoring, and much more. The webpage is a good overview of everything MTSS.

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If someone emailed you this link, please let them know that (for security reasons) they need to enter an access key in LiveBinders to share a private binder or shelf.

If this is your binder, please log in (top right on this page.)

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Duke Law created a guide for parents to better understand their role as a parent of a child with a disability. It educates the parent, covers IDEA, frequently asked questions, 504, sample letters and more. This resource can be beneficial for parents and for to understand their rights and role more organized form than the document provided by Public School of NC.

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The Duke Children's Law Clinic has produced a comprehensive Guide for parents of children with special education needs. The Guide explains the special education law in clear terms so that parents can learn the vocabulary, navigate the special education system, and become an effective advocate for their children. The Guide is especially geared to assist North Carolina parents.

The Guide contains 11 chapters, beginning with the broad concepts of the special education law and the important terms, then moving to specific topics. Readers can access the Guide by clicking the desired chapter on the list below, or by downloading the entire Guide to their own computer. The Frequently Asked Questions are answered orally as well as in the text. See the videos below to hear answers to common questions.
Download the guide Descarga la Guía en Español
Frequently Asked Questions

Chapter 9 of the Guide provides answers to frequently asked questions about special education in North Carolina. The questions, which are divided into six groups, are also answered in the videos below. Click the play buttons to watch each grouping in its entirety, or use the links to jump to individual answers.

Eligibility for Special Education

Special Education Services and IEPs

Least Restrictive Environment and Placement Issues

Accommodations, Modifications, Supplementary Aids and Services, and Related Services

IEP Meetings

School Discipline

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A Parents' Guide to Special Education in North Carolina | Duke University School of Law

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The Duke Children's Law Clinic has produced a comprehensive Guide for parents of children with special education needs. The Guide explains the special education law in clear terms so that parents can learn the vocabulary, navigate the special education system, and become an effective advocate for their children.