Are students trying to game your standards-based grading classroom?

💡Think differently about formative assessment.

🛑 If the special education teacher is being asked to spend their time on homework or assignment help, we limit the time they can provide actual intervention. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #TeacherTwitter

🔄 Instead of asking special education #teachers to support assignments and #homework , let's give them the latitude to support SKILLS and deep understanding. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #UDL #TeacherTwitter

🎓 We are wasting the resource of our special education teachers if we limit them mostly to helping students complete work. Their skills can reach so much farther when they are in the role of co-designing instruction. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL

🔑 How well #students with #IEPs succeed depends largely on the expectations teachers hold for them. Never underestimate the combined power of high expectations and awesome instruction. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #SBLchat #TG2Chat #TeacherTwitter

💡 Do we justify students' placements in special education rooms to meet the students' needs? Or the adults' needs? #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #TeacherTwitter

🌟 Co-teaching models allow more students to excel, because they have access to more #teaching expertise. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #TeacherTwitter

🤝 The role of a co-teacher is not to be a paraprofessional assisting the lead teacher. The co-teachers collaborate to plan, implement, assess, and evaluate together. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #Assessment #TeacherTwitter

🔍 Not completing homework is not proof of insufficient learning. Thus, missing homework shouldn't be recorded as a zero—it's simply missing data. Better, don't grade homework at all. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #SBLchat #TG2Chat #TeacherTwitter

🌍 If our school culture lacks inclusivity, it lacks equity. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #TeacherTwitter

🏀 For teachers who are basketball fans: Paraprofessionals should work like they are in 'zone defense,' not 'man-to-man.' More classroom support is great! Attaching an adult to a student all day, not so much. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #TeacherTwitter

🎓 A low pass rate or class average grade is NOT an indicator of rigor of the course, but rather an indicator of inadequate #teaching and/or #assessment practices. I'm talking to you, too, college professors. #LeadInclusion #Teachers #UDL #SBLchat #TG2Chat #TeacherTwitter

🚧 The barrier to #inclusion isn't #disability . The true barrier is mindset. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #TeacherTwitter

🌟 Students with #IEPs should not have to earn the privilege to be in a general education classroom. Belonging should be the assumption, the default. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #TeacherTwitter

👥 A #student who is velcroed to a paraprofessional all day has not experienced inclusion. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #TeacherTwitter

⏳ If half the class requires tier 2 support, the school doesn't need more tier 2 #intervention strategies or programs. There's a need for more universal design. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #TecacherTwitter

💡 Special Educators: let's avoid calling students you serve 'my students.' It's well-intended, but it can perpetuate the view that students with #IEPs belong to special #education . #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #TeacherTwitter

🌍 Accommodations don't stigmatize students when we offer them as universally-designed options for everyone. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #TeacherTwitter

🤝 The role of a co-teacher is not to be an assistant aiding a lead teacher. Co-teachers collaborate with intention to plan, teach, assess, and reflect together. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #TeacherTwitter #Assessment

📚 #Grading homework introduces big problems. #Homework runs a serious risk of widening the achievement gap for #students with #IEPs and students from low-income backgrounds. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #SBLchat #TG2Chat #TeacherTwitter