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WCAG: Updates for Educators

WCAG | Updates for Educators

This post explains why the ADA Title II web accessibility deadlines were extended, what has (and hasn’t) changed, and how districts can use the additional time to build sustainable accessibility systems.

By Cassie Brusch

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Understandable

BY Cassie Brusch

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Making Content More Operable

BY Cassie Brusch

Finding Our Calm: Co-Regulating Through the End-of-Year Whirlwind

Finding Our Calm: Co-Regulating Through the End-of-Year Whirlwind

BY Marisa Crapella

WCAG: Updates for Educators

WCAG | Updates for Educators

BY Cassie Brusch

Storytelling: Sharing Who We Are to Grow Empathy and Belonging

Storytelling: Sharing Who We Are to Grow Empathy and Belonging

BY Jesse Gluckman

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Social-Emotional Learning: The Bridge to Belonging

BY Christy Ruth

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Operable

BY Cassie Brusch

Layered Acknowledgement in: Celebrating Students Like It’s Our Job (Because It Is!). Behavior logo which is a graphic of a head with a brain and heart.

Layered Acknowledgement in: Celebrating Students Like It’s Our Job (Because It Is!)

BY Marisa Crapella

Gratitude and Grace: A Practice That Grounds Us. Welcoming and supportive schools icon.

Gratitude and Grace: A Practice That Grounds Us

BY Jesse Gluckman

BrainSpark Saturday, January 24, 2026 12:30pm - 3:30pm Keith Valley Middle School 227 Meetinghouse Rd, Horsham Brains On! Screens Off! Let's get thinking! BrainSpark Logo

BrainSpark

BY Ben DeSantis

STEM

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Level Up Your AI Game: Become a Gemini Certified Educator

It Takes a Village. Winter 2025. Vol 2. Issue 2. ChangED Logo on World with clouds. people walking underneath.

ChangED Magazine (Issue 12) – Winter 2025

The Future of Math Instruction-A Reflection on NCSM and NCTM

Fall 2024 Vol 2 Issue 1 Fueling the Flame Hiker looking up at mountain on cloudy day The role of curiosity in modern education. learn.mciu.org/changed

ChangED Magazine (Issue 11) – Fall 2024

Dr. Paul Riccomini Embracing Retention and Scaffolding in Mathematics

Dr. Paul Riccomini Embracing Retention and Scaffolding in Mathematics

Literacy

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What Does It Mean to be Literate in the Age of AI?

What is structured Literacy? "Structured Literacy is the embodiment of the Science of Reading."

Making Connections between the Science of Reading and Structured Literacy

Literacy for Complex Needs FI

Learning Series: Literacy Instruction for Students with Complex Needs

Approaching Writing Instruction with a UDL Lens

Approaching Writing Instruction with a UDL Lens

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Podcast: Do’s and Don’ts of Teaching Literacy

Instructional Technology

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Level Up Your AI Game: Become a Gemini Certified Educator

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Back to School with AI: Simple Steps to Smarter Prompts

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AI and EdTech: Wrangling the Digital Wild West

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Podcasting 101 for Educators: Top Tips for Launching Your Educational Podcast

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Delivering Accessible Presentations

UDL

UDL; CoLab

UDL: CoLab

Approaching Writing Instruction with a UDL Lens

Approaching Writing Instruction with a UDL Lens

Designing Accessible Math

Designing Accessible Math

Rainbow retelling is a reading comprehension strategy where learners use the rainbow as visual prompts to remember the basic blocks of comprehension in order to assist with retellinga story.

Rainbow Retelling (Name It, Frame It, Tame It)

Closing Circles (Name It, Frame It, Tame It)

Special Education

Finding Our Calm: Co-Regulating Through the End-of-Year Whirlwind

Finding Our Calm: Co-Regulating Through the End-of-Year Whirlwind

How Much One-to-One Instruction is Too Much?

How Much One-to-One Instruction is Too Much?

Designing Sustainable Programs: Classroom Structure and Visual Supports. Photo of a classroom as the background.

Designing Sustainable Programs: Classroom Structure and Visual Supports

Literacy for Complex Needs FI

Learning Series: Literacy Instruction for Students with Complex Needs

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Understanding POUR: The Foundation of Digital Accessibility

MTSS

Finding Our Calm: Co-Regulating Through the End-of-Year Whirlwind

Finding Our Calm: Co-Regulating Through the End-of-Year Whirlwind

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Layered Acknowledgement in: Celebrating Students Like It’s Our Job (Because It Is!)

Virtual MTSS Opportunities.

MTSS Virtual Opportunities

Leading the Change: Building Inclusive and Comprehensive Multi-Tiered Systems of Support

Leading Change: Building Inclusive and Comprehensive Multi Tiered Systems of Support

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What is Restorative Practices?