This newsletter includes the latest news on inclusion and educational leadership.

This book applies the principles of universal design for learning beyond diversity in learning to diversity of all kinds.

Using UDL principles upfront means making fewer adaptations later—and reaching more students.

This is the study guide that accompanies the book, Your Students, My Students OUR Students, published by ASCD.

Teaching self-regulation skills to young students has to go beyond praise and censure.

We can fix gaming-for-grades school cultures by changing our understanding of formative classroom work.

This book explores the hard truths of current special education practice and outlines five essential disruptions to the status quo.

EL editors asked several teens across the country to tell us what they most need from schools.

For students with learning disabilities, art class is often the best part of the day. Why take it away from them?

Students with invisible disabilities often feel isolated in school. But they desperately want to belong.

Learn about powerful team protocol for developing student learning plans that are practical and designed to be incorporated into everyday lesson and unit planning.

It’s time for schools to move toward a grading system that is fair, accurate, specific, and timely.

Behavior charts and similar public shaming methods don't teach self-regulation. They mainly harm vulnerable learners.

Goal attainment scaling, which tracks students' skill progression over time, offers an alternative to fixed methods of assessment.

Four common grading practices can hurt students and erode instructional culture.

Adopting a norm of "disagree and commit" allows schools to try out promising new practices even if some teachers harbor doubts.

What's the difference between accommodations and modifications, and why is the distinction important?

Although computerized grading programs have advantages, teachers' judgment has been shown to be more reliable.

This book is a resource for pre- and in-service teachers with a need to understand the broad range of assessment issues in early childhood .

In this study, the authors compared the effects of web-based versus face-to-face coaching of teachers of young children with autism spectrum disorders.

As standards- based curricula and assessments are implemented, grading practices must also change to be meaningful and fair.

This practitioner-friendly book provides teachers and administrators with an effective framework for assigning grades that are accurate, meaningful, and easy to interpret.

The roots of a response-to-intervention approach and mastery learning have much in common.

A group of teachers, school leaders, and education researchers create report cards that link course grades to progress on standards.

This five-step model provides fair and accurate grades for students who have IEPs

This five-step model provides fair and accurate grades for students with disabilities and English language learners.

In this study researchers developed an IEP evaluation tool based on IDEA requirements and National Research Council recommendations for children with ASD.