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President Ford, Education for All Handicapped Children

For Students 9th - 10th
Site contains text of President Ford's statement on signing the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Inclusive Classrooms: A Primer for Teachers

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An inclusive classroom is a general education classroom where students with and without learning differences learn together. Inclusive classrooms are welcoming and support the diverse academic, social, emotional, and communication needs...
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Virginia Tech

Classroom Inclusion: Balancing Student Needs

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This well-written article provides a discussion of inclusion of students with special needs, and is written in reference to the Montgomery County public school district in Virginia. The article provides an interesting and informative...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sandy Hook Promise: Start With Hello: Educator Guides

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Start With Hello asks students, educators, parents, and other community leaders who interact with children to take steps in class, the lunchroom and/or on the bus to be inclusive and connected. This easy-to-use guide is designed to...
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LD Online

Ld Online: Educators

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site provides information about learning disabilities, from experts all over the world. This page specifically provides help, strategies, and ideas to educators of people with learning disabilities.
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EL Education

El Education: Collaborative Culture: Norms

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson discusses the implementation of classroom norms. These norms are inclusive and should transcend to the norms of the school.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Snakes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Each student is asked to become a herpetologist or snake expert in this instructional activity and research a snake species. They prepare a fact sheet for inclusion into a class field guide. The goal is for students to become more aware...
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World of Education: Cultural Learning Styles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learning style and culture - what's the link? This article provides a summary of learning styles theory and the literature on learning style and culture correlations.
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Children's Music Workshop: Twelve Benefits of Music Education

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The benefits of music education are revealed in many studies. This article briefly lists 12 benefits of the value of music education, some of which relate to 21st century skills. In addition, users have access to a list of other music...
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The Ws Cognitive Profile and Educational Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Beginning with references to several articles written on Williams Syndrome (WS), this site provides an outline efficient for educators to follow when teaching children with WS and writing IEP's. Williams Syndrome is compared to a...
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The National Fragile X Foundation

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Many aspects of Fragile X Syndrome are explained. The Education section contains information for Birth to Three, Early Childhood, Elementary, and High School students, plus a Lesson-Planning Guide.
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The National Fragile X Foundation

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
"Fragile X Syndrome is the most common, known cause of inherited mental impairment." Many aspects of the condition are explained at this very supportive site, and can be accessed through the menu down the left side of the page. The...
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North Central Regional Educational Laboratory

Ncrel: Pathways to School Improvement

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Use this NCREL site to find research and best practices relating to many critical issues in education. Each area on the site includes discussions of critical issues, supporting material, and additional resources. Areas include...
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National Down Syndrome Society

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Down's Syndrome Society provides detailed information about Down Syndrome, including diagnosis, specific health issues, development information, education, and life planning issues.
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The Williams Syndrome Association: Your Source

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is "your source for the latest information on Williams Syndrome." Go to the Parents section and click "What is Williams Syndrome?" for a description. The section for teachers offers education strategies, research results, assessment...
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Ncesse: Student Spaceflight Experiments Program

For Students 9th - 10th
A competition for students in Grades 5 and up, in which they design an experiment that would fly in space under conditions of microgravity. Winners in local competitions are chosen to submit their designs for inclusion in a...
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PBS

Colorin Colorado: How to Develop a Lesson Plan That Includes El Ls

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this article, readers will learn how to develop a lesson plan that will include ELL students. This article highlights that effect lessons, that will inclusive of ELL students, will work to build background knowledge, provide explicit...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Is Globalization a Dirty Word?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Is globalization a dirty word? Well not according to a recent study conducted by the World Bank. The report, entitled Globalization, Growth, and Poverty: Building an Inclusive World Economy, makes the case for globalization as a method...
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United Nations

Unesco: The Slave Route

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent set of resources on slavery and the slave trade. Looks at artists' perceptions, interviews with historians and others, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, trade in the Indian Ocean, resistance and abolition, trade in the...
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Children's Museum

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Take Me There Greece

For Teachers K - 1st
Fall in love with the bright colors, rhythmic music, delicious food, and fascinating people of Greece as you begin to discover another culture. Studying other cultures cultivates a sense of respect and pride for self and others and...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Richard Hooker

For Students 9th - 10th
Richard Hooker (March 1554 - 3 November 1600) was an Anglican priest and an influential theologian. Hooker's emphases on reason, tolerance and inclusiveness considerably influenced the development of Anglicanism. He was the co-founder...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Getting Started With Ee* Pro

For Teachers 9th - 10th
EE* Pro, by da Vinci Technologies Group, Inc., is an all-inclusive App for electrical engineering students, which helps them study concepts for EE coursework. The App is organized into analysis, equations and references.
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American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention: Culturally Responsive Rti

For Teachers K - 1st
This series of professional learning modules, released by the National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCRESt), presents Response to Intervention (RTI) as a culturally responsive framework for ensuring...
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Teaching American History

Teaching American History

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An all-inclusive teacher's resource for teaching American history presented as a project of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Educators will find a plethora of lesson plans, multi-media, teaching tools, learning modules, and primary...