Significant Cognitive Disabilities, ARD/IEP Supports
Working as a Team: My First ARD Meeting
In this video, Bianca Salinas talks about having compassion for others and working as a team.
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Significant Cognitive Disabilities
Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Instruction
Data Collection
This video shows one educator reviewing some of the data collection forms used frequently by her classroom team.
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Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Inclusion
Inclusive Education Implementation Plan
This Inclusive Education Implementation Plan blank template aligns with the eight core elements of Inclusive Education. Additional download options include a sample for a team just starting out with Phase One of their Inclusive Education Implementation Plan, and a sample for a high school campus
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Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Inclusion
Circle of Relationships Map
This map helps a team explore student relationships.
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Significant Cognitive Disabilities
Effective Practices for Supporting Educators Working with Students with Complex Access Needs
TX CAN’s administrator series focuses on effective practices and offers suggestions for supporting Educators working with students with significant cognitive disabilities.
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Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Instruction
Fidelity Checklist and Reflection Tool: Teaching Math to Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities
This self-check will help you determine where your team is currently performing in regard to teaching mathematics to students with significant cognitive disabilities. Complete the Beyond Time and Money: Teaching Mathematics training and then complete this document to get the baseline for your team
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Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Instruction
Grading Rubric for Students with Complex Access Needs: Classroom Scenario
This grading rubric scenario demonstrates how to identify prerequisite skill access points to TEKS, provide instruction that integrates individual accommodations and modifications, pre-plan individual supports, and use task analysis to determine individual student mastery of an assignment or activity
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Significant Cognitive Disabilities
Family Input Survey
This survey can be used to gather information from families.
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Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Instruction, Autism
Recasting
This video shows one educator sharing how she uses the strategy of recasting to model articulation, grammar, and vocabulary. Recasting is repeating what a student says with an expansion as a means of giving implicit and direct feedback. It promotes using complete and grammatically correct sentences
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Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Inclusion
Having Effective and Efficient Team Meetings
This document provides guidance on a variety of structures and processes for effective collaborative team meetings.
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