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Exit ticket to be used as a formative assessment to make adjustments in instruction to address barriers in the curriculum and teaching.
Find out how CISL is using adaptivity to promote expert learning.
Consider are the pros and cons of children performing for TV and in other competitive performing environments.
Solar panels, windmills, and public trash compactors are expensive, but is it even more costly to the environment to do without these green technologies?
Should kids act to stop bullying, or should they leave it up to adults?
Guidance and sample language for agencies looking to include accessibility requirements and/or guidance in communications with publishers and developers of digital materials and technologies.
The Center on Inclusive Software for Learning's flexible, adaptive, and customizable digital learning environment.
This Lesson was created to use in conjunction with materials in Clusive [https://clusive.cast.org], a free, online learning environment that makes materials flexible and accessible. The Lesson is designed for students in grades 6-8, and targets ELA standards as well as SEL skills of self-awareness and learner agency. As you use this lesson, students will be guided to recognize, understand, and apply key elements of a mystery story, tools that they can use to build learner agency, self-awareness, and comprehension
What makes a revolution possible? Values, beliefs, grievances, and solutions formed a potent mixture that made the American Revolution happen. In this lesson, students use a variety of materials to learn about the making of the Declaration of Independence. The lesson culminates in students recreating the Declaration in their own words, or making their own personal declaration of independence.This Lesson Plan was created to use in conjunction with materials in Clusive [https://clusive.cast.org], a free, online learning environment that makes materials flexible and accessible.
This Lesson Plan Template was created to use in conjunction with materials in Clusive [https://clusive.cast.org], a free, online learning environment that makes materials flexible and accessible. The Lesson Plan Template is designed for teachers to build lessons for students in grades 4-12.
This Lesson was created to use in conjunction with materials in Clusive [https://clusive.cast.org], a free, online learning environment that makes materials flexible and accessible. The Lesson is designed to engage and support middle school teachers and their students to evaluate Tom Sawyer as one of a long-line of trickster characters in world literature.
Explanation of what "accessible" means, and how it differs from terms such as assistive technology and accommodations.
This page is meant to be an entry point into the creation of accessible content with familiar tools such as Microsoft Office and Google Docs.
Learn how to make your posts on a number of social media platforms more accessible by including alternative text for images, properly using hashtags to make your posts searchable and more.
Information and video tutorials to help teachers create closed captioned videos.
Overview of OER with a demonstraton of how to create accessible OER with Open Author and the introduction of a protocol for the curation of accessible OER.
An explanation of what it means to say educational materials are "accessible" and why accessibility is important.
An introduction to the four POUR principles that make for a more accessible experience in learning materials.
Practical tips for implementing the four principles of accessibility that are the foundation for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
Middle School level Narrative Retelling Rubric for students and teachers.