Accessibility, Compliance & EQUITY in Education | Quarterly Magazine | AC&E
Every Student, Every School, Every Day
By Deborah Nelson, Music Teacher at the Royal Palm School in Florida Okay, I’m gearing up for the new academic year. My students have significant cognitive and physical challenges and each one uniquely different from the others. Yes, they are
Read More Off to a New School Year and a New Way of Including All Students
By Howie Knoff, Ph.D., President of Project ACHIEVE Educational Solutions The 65th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case was celebrated on May 17, 2019. As we all know, this unanimous Supreme Court decision determined that state
In the course of developing the recently launched Discovery Education Experience, I had the opportunity to connect with educators and learn not only what features and enhancements they wanted to see in our newly launched digital service, but also new
Read More 6 Ways Educators Can Begin to Improve Educational Equity Today
Dr. Gregory Firn serves as the Chief Operating Officer for RoboKind. With over 33 years of experience in education, Greg has done everything from teaching to running entire school districts. Greg’s deep experience and passion for helping under-served children has
Read More An Interview With Dr. Gregory Firn, Chief Operating Officer of Robokind
By Claudia Salinas The Oak Grove School District (OGSD) in San Jose, California has an enrollment of 10,000 students, with nearly a quarter of the student body classified as an English Learner (EL). The majority speak Spanish at home, but
Read More Driving Equity by Helping English Learners Achieve Reclassification
In April, 2019, our publisher Larry Jacobs had a wonderful chat with Discovery Education’s President of K-12 Education, Scott Kinney. Read the transcript below. Scott, educational equity is a term that has a lot of meanings for a lot of
Read More An Interview With Scott Kinney, Discovery Education’s President of K-12 Education
By Lisa Raiford, Ed.D. “Why would you use a robot to teach social skills to children with autism?” That was the question I heard from the start. It was a question I pondered after having the opportunity to implement a
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By Tracy Gray and Alise Crossland What is Digital Accessibility? A growing number of teachers, administrators and policymakers recognize that digital accessibility is essential in their efforts to provide equal educational opportunity for all students, particularly those with disabilities. The
A former superintendent shares his model for creating a school environment that serves all students. By Greg Firn Stepping back from of my current role as chief operating officer at RoboKind LLC to my former career as a superintendent of
Read More Challenging Mental Models to Move Districts from “Good” to “Great”
By Cheryl Spittler “The one argument for accessibility that doesn’t get made nearly often enough is how extraordinarily better it makes some people’s lives. How many opportunities do we have to dramatically improve people’s lives just by doing our job
Read More Creating Cultures of Accessibility, Compliance, and Equity
